Tour Overview
Accra City Tour
Tour Price: €105
Kwame Nkrumah Museum
Arts and Craft Market
Black Star Square
W.E.B DuBois Centre/ Ghana National Museum
Tour Inclusion
Transportation
Fuel
Guide Support
Entrance Fees
Cost of Activities listed in the itinerary
Bottled Water
Hotel Pickup and Dropoff
Tour Exclusions
Travel insurance
Cost of Activities not listed
Tour Inclusion
Transportation
Fuel
Guide Support
Entrance Fees
Cost of Activities listed in the itinerary
Bottled Water
Hotel Pickup and Dropoff
Tour Exclusions
Travel insurance
Cost of Activities not listed
On this day, you will make a drive from Accra to Cape Coast for a history and nature experience
You will first visit the Kakum National Park, the second largest national park in Ghana, home to various plant and animal species. Here, you will take about a 20-minute hike through the national park towards the Canopy walkway constructed in 1995 by 2 Canadians and 6 Ghanaians. You will take a 350-meter-long walk on a suspension bridge, 11 to 40 meters above the ground. You will see the forest from above and appreciate nature amid chirping birds and some butterflies.
Before you leave, you will first visit the Elmina Castle, the oldest European building below the Sahara built in 1482 by the Portuguese. This slave dungeon was initially built as a warehouse to store trade goods that were bartered between the Europeans and Africans. These warehouses were later converted to dungeons to keep slaves when the attention was shifted from trade of goods to human trade. This is where it all started.
En routeFrom there, your next visit is to the Cape Coast Castle, the youngest of the three slave castles in Ghana, yet the most significant in the history of slavery. It was built at the peak of slavery to accommodate more slaves who were taken through the door of no return to the “new world”. This is a very significant site in the Emancipation Day celebration, as the remains of two descendants of our ancestors who were taken through the door of no return were brought back symbolically through that door of no return. This is to signify the welcome of all diasporans to Ghana and the continent of Africa on behalf of our ancestors who did not get the chance to.
