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Day 1 Akwaaba – Welcome To Ghana
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Akwaaba – Welcome To Ghana

Arrive in Accra, Ghana. You will be met at the airport by Landtours representatives who will assist you with your transfer from the airport to your hotel.
Day 2 Accra City Tour – Visit A Traditional African Market
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Accra City Tour – Visit A Traditional African Market

After breakfast, depart for a sightseeing tour of Accra, the Capital of Ghana. Experience the city’s highlights during this Accra orientation. The capital of Ghana since 1877, Accra is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region. In addition, it’s the country’s most populous city. Travel through the administrative and economic districts of Accra. Also, see the W.E.B. Du Bois Center for Pan African Culture and the Independence/Black Star Square. Learn about important events in Ghana’s history and the country’s first president who helped lead Ghana to independence.

Continue your tour to The Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, dedicated to the legacy of Ghana’s first President, Kwame Nkrumah, and his role in African independence. The tour includes visits to Nkrumah’s mausoleum, a museum showcasing his life, his personal residence, the eternal Flame of African Liberation, and beautifully landscaped gardens. Learn about Nkrumah’s early life, political career, and Pan-African vision. End the day’s tour at the Arts Center, where participants can sharpen their bargaining skills to shop for goods from Ghana and West Africa in an open-air market. On display, you will see fabrics of different materials, designs, colors and textures to purchase from.
Day 3 Canopy Walk Way And Kakum Rain Forest – Slave Dungeon Experience (Cape Coast Castle)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Canopy Walk Way And Kakum Rain Forest – Slave Dungeon Experience (Cape Coast Castle)

After breakfast, check out of your hotel and depart to Cape Coast and drive through the historic Denkyira Kingdom to Kakum National Park, one of West Africa’s surviving tropical rain forests. Choose between a 2 km nature walk through the rain forest to discover the wide variety of exotic flora and fauna species and the medicinal values they offer or take a walk on the canopy walkway hanging 40 meters above the forest ground.

After lunch on your own, embark on a tour of the infamous Forts, Castles, and Slave Dungeons of Ghana. History will unfold the story of the slave trade which the impact is still felt beyond the shores of Africa today. Visit the Cape Coast Castle built by the Swedes in 1653 and was later taken over by the British. Here, you would learn about the relationship between the western slave traders and the African tribes that made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible. It is an opportunity to be up and close with history – to stand in the dark and stuffy dungeons, imagining the experience and conditions that millions of Africans endured. This castle also houses the West African Historical Museum.
Day 4 Slave Dungeon Experience (Elmina Castle) And Fishing Village Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Slave Dungeon Experience (Elmina Castle) And Fishing Village Tour

Explore Elmina, a fishing village that’s both picturesque and gritty, charming and though-provoking. What better way to appreciate it than to immerse oneself in its main industry – fishing! Meet with local fishermen to learn the intricacies of their trade and the challenges they face in their day-to-day work. Next, meet the fish mongers in the village who will demonstrate the various stages of smoking the fish in earthenware ovens. This is a unique way to experience one of Ghana’s oldest and important trades.

After lunch on your own, visit Elmina Castle, also known as St. George’s Castle, which was built by the Portuguese in 1482. Here, learn about the relationship between the western slave traders and the African tribes that participated in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Here participants will witness the dark and stuffy dungeons local people were forced to endure before being sent on a long and perilous passage across the Atlantic. To see the truth of these conditions in person is a powerful reminder of the inhumanity of the slave trade.
Day 5 Elmina – Assin Manso – Kumasi City Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Elmina – Assin Manso – Kumasi City Tour

After breakfast, check out of your hotel and drive through the forest zone to Kumasi, the seat of the Ashanti Empire to explore the legends of the famous Ashantis, whose legacies are still evident today. En route, stop at Assin Manso. Visit the site of “Donkor Nsuo”, the former Slave River and market, the final transit point for a large number of enslaved Africans. This is the final resting place for two ancestors whose mortal remains were returned from the USA and Jamaica and re-interred there.

Continue your drive to Kumasi where you will visit Manhyia Palace Museum to obtain first-hand information on the legacies of the Ashanti kingdom. A regal history that dates back to 1700 is told with relics and artefacts. Enjoy a drive through the city with monuments dedicated to the memory of the great Ashanti people. End the day’s tour at the National Cultural Center which features the Prempeh II Jubilee Museum and various studios of the brass makers, potters and batik makers.
Day 6 Ashanti Craft Villages
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Ashanti Craft Villages

After breakfast, depart your hotel and devote this day to visiting the three famous Ashanti craft villages; Ahwiaa, the wood carvers’ village, Ntonso, the home of Adinkra cloth, and Bonwire, the Kente weaving village. You will have an opportunity to see how African crafts are made and to buy directly from the artisans who make them
Day 7 Accra – Dakar
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Accra – Dakar

After breakfast, spend the remainder of the day packing and doing last minute shopping. Transfer to airport for check-in and departure to Senegal.
Day 8 Goree Island – Dakar City Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Goree Island – Dakar City Tour

After breakfast, depart your hotel and be transferred to the ferry terminal. Here, you will board a ferry to the infamous Goree Island. This 20-minute ride takes us back in time over 200 years. GOREE Island was once the depot and departure point of millions and millions of Africans shipped into bondage to the Americas. At the slave house, we listen to the curator narrate 3 to 4 centuries of black slave trade as it happened in West Africa. After prayers and libation to the memories of our ancestors who perished in the door passage, you will tour the island with stops at the Women’s Museum. Enjoy lunch on the Island on your own.

After lunch on your own, we depart to discover Dakar, capital city of Senegal. Stop at the Presidential Palace the African Arts Museum with its great collection from all over West Africa, the catholic cathedral of the African Memory, stroll through the colourful market of SANDAG, pass by the great mosque, the university, the sand painting gallery, Monument of African Renaissance and at last stop at the biggest craft market and experience the friendly bargain system.
Day 9 Pink Lake And Cayar Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Pink Lake And Cayar Tour

After breakfast, start your day with a visit to the beautiful Lac Rose (Pink Lake Retba), known for its spectacular pink hues. Next, you will stop in Fulani Villages of Cayar. Here, you will get the opportunity to interact with local community members while you observe and watch the lively arrival of big game fishing and how fisher folk go about their daily duties at the beach.
Day 10 Farewell/Departure
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Farewell/Departure

Spend the early part of the day at leisure after breakfast. Later in the day, check out of your hotel and transfer to airport for check-in and final departure back home.

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10 Day Ghana And Senegal Expedition

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Itinerary of your trip 10 Day Ghana And Senegal Expedition

Akwaaba – Welcome To Ghana

Accra City Tour – Visit A Traditional African Market

Canopy Walk Way And Kakum Rain Forest – Slave Dungeon Experience (Cape Coast Castle)

Slave Dungeon Experience (Elmina Castle) And Fishing Village Tour

Elmina – Assin Manso – Kumasi City Tour

Ashanti Craft Villages

Accra – Dakar

Goree Island – Dakar City Tour

Pink Lake And Cayar Tour

Farewell/Departure

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