Basic information
Location: Ghana
Date: No fixed departure dates. All year round except in June to August or tailor-made to suit your needs
Duration: 15 days
Group size: 1 - 6 people
Price: From £1117 (based of 4-6 people) including accommodation, transportation and entrance feed. For 1-3 people ask for price/quote. Prices change depending on the group size and how a person or a group want to be treated. Excluding flights.

What will I be doing on this trip?
Associated activities: Visiting and exploring slave castles, dungeons, slave river, slave markets, slave defence wall, wildlife safari and walk on the only canopy walkway in Africa.

When slave trade is mentioned anywhere in the world, Ghana is one of the first countries in West Africa that comes to mind. This 15 day tour allows you to explore many historical and cultural sites associated with the Slave Trade in West Africa. You will have the opportunity to experience the culture of ethnic groups staying within communities that have a link with the slave trade. This will help value and understand the rich culture of Ghanaians. You will visit community based ecotourism sites, historical sites, and cultural sites. You will tour the coastal dungeons where captives waited for the slave ships to take them to the 'New World'. You will travel north to visit the slave markets and to see areas where slave raiders were busy capturing those who would become slaves.

Finally you will have the opportunity to go on a wildlife safari to discover the animals native to Ghana aswell as explore Ghana's biodiversity on a tour of the rainforest canopy using the only canopy walkway in Africa.

My holiday itinerary...
Day 1: Accra Arrival
Meet and greet by the tour operator

Day 2: Accra to Cape Coast and Elmina Castles
Guided tour of these World Heritage sites. Elmina castle is the oldest European building in sub sahara Africa. Thousands of capitives passed through dungeons of both castles and were shipped like commodities.

Day 3: Elmina to Kakum National Park
You will experience the only national park with a canopy walkway in Africa.

Day 4: Elmina to Kumasi via Assin Manso
Here slaves took their last bath before been taken to Cape Coast and Elmina Castles for shipment.

Day 5: Kumasi to Bamang
Here you will learn about Kente weaving which is a must see activities in the community. See hand woven Kente clothes in different colour, size and pattern and visit other craft villages.

Day 6: Travel Kumasi to Mole

Day 7 & 8: Mole
One of the best national parks in West Africa rich in flora and fauna species. See untamed but friendly elephants, birds, reptiles, antelopes, buffalos, etc. In the Mole National Park, take a morning and evening safari drive /walk in the largest and most protected area for eco tourism and nature conservation in Ghana.

Visit the Larabanga Mosque. One of the ancient mosques inWest Africa.

Day 9: Mole National Park to Wa
Wa is the capital city of upper west. Free day for personal exploration.

Day 10: Wa to Gwollu Defence Wall to Wa
The Gwollu Defence Wall was built in the 18th century to protect the local people against slave raiders who came from present day Mali.

Day 11: Wa to Bolgatanga
Free day to explore the capital of upper east region of Ghana.

Day 12: Paga
Visit Paga where crocodiles are held sacred and camps where slaves were kept. You will then visit Widnaba where you will take aguided tour of the chiefs palace, discover various sacred shrines and groves, and explore the old slave market.

Day 13: Bolgatanga to Salaga Slave Market to Tamale
One of the slave markets used by the local people and the people from Burkina Faso and Mali.

Day 14: Tamale to Kumasi
Kumasi is the Capital city of the Ashanti region, a vibrant city full of musical vibes, colourful clothes and exotic smells.

Day 15: Kumasi to Accra 
Outward flight.

How does this holiday make a difference?
All guides on this trip are local guides, picked for their excellent indigenous knowledge of the area and high degree of training. They have in depth knowledge of the slave trade and their local culture. We believe that these local people are in the best position to explain the history of the slave trade handed to them by their forefathers.

Throughout the trip, travellers or tourists stay in hotels which are locally owned and community guesthouses.

Before any trip we give the code of conduct to travellers to know how to conduct themselves in order not to destroy the local culture, flora and fauna species. 'Do not take any flora, take only photographs' and ‘Do not litter but leave only your footprint’ policies help to keep the environment clean as our guides are asked to explain and encourage this policy during the trip.

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