November 22, 2025

Travel Day        INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT From JFK - TO ACCRA, GHANA 

Flight from USA (Included from JFK) 

 

Ghana Group traveling November 22-30, 2025 on Delta Air Lines

Utilization deadline:    July 15, 2025

 

Itinerary - 

1 DL 156 22NOV J JFKACC HK20   445P  725A  23NOV  

2 DL 157 30NOV S ACCJFK HK20   935A  400P

 

 

November 23, 2025

DAY 01 ARRIVE IN ACCRA, GHANA / ACCRA CITY TOUR                                                           

Akwaaba - Welcome!

On arrival in Accra, Ghana, please clear customs and immigration and claim your baggage. Proceed to the arrivals hall and look for our local representative who will be waiting for your group with a sign.  Once everyone in your group is accounted for, you will be escorted to your private vehicle and transferred to the hotel with assistance.  Enjoy a welcome drink at the hotel and participate in an orientation session.  

   

Ghana is a place where you will reconnect with the cultural and spiritual practices of your Ancestors and have an opportunity to immerse yourself in the dynamic cosmopolitan capital city of Accra and the rich cultures of the Ghanaian people.   

 

Afterwards 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 Artiste Alliance Gallery, 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 with a visit 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. 

 

Welcome dinner included! 

 

Accommodation in Accra  - (1 Nights) - Lancaster Hotel  

 

November 24, 2025

DAY 02           ASHANTI CRAFT VILLAGES – KUMASI CITY TOUR                                            

After breakfast, check out of your hotel and depart to Kumasi. Upon arrival, visit 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. Afterwards, continue to Kumasi 

 

Check into the hotel

 Evening is at leisure.

 

Accommodation in Kumasi  - (2 Nights) - Lancaster Hotel  

 

November 25, 2025

DAY 03           KUMASI CITY TOUR / AFTERNOON AT LEISURE                                                

After breakfast, visit the Manhyia Palace Museum to obtain firsthand 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. Your city tour on this day will also include a visit to the famous Kejetia market, the National Cultural Centre which features the Prempeh II Jubilee Museum and various studios of the brass makers, potters and batik makers. Afterwards, return to your hotel and enjoy the afternoon at leisure.

 

November 26, 2025

DAY 04           KUMASI - SLAVE RIVER – SLAVE DUNGEON EXPERIENCE                             

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 Ashanti people, whose legacies are still evident today. Stop at the former slave river & market in Assin Manso. Visit the site of “Donkor Nsuo”, the former Slave River and market, as well as 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. Option to bath in the river (extra cost) 

 

Continue your journey to Cape Coast.

Check into the hotel

Remainder of the day is at your leisure. 

 

Accommodation in Cape Coast (2 Night)  - Elmina Bay Hotel 

 

November 27, 2025

DAY 05           CASTLES, DUNGEONS & FISHING VILLAGE                                                       

After breakfast, 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.

 

Afterwards 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. 

 

After lunch on your own, 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. 

 

 

November 28, 2025

DAY 06           KAKUM RAINFOREST AND CANOPY WALKWAY – ACCRA                              

After breakfast, check out of your hotel 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, depart back to Accra.  

 

Check into the hotel and enjoy the facilities.

 

Accommodation in Accra (2 Nights) Lancaster Hotel  

 

November 29, 2025: 

DAY 07           LIVING HERITAGE CEREMONY (TORGORME VILLAGE) – CEDI BEADS

(note Cedi Beach factory open only Wednesdays & Saturdays)      

     

After breakfast, depart Accra to a beautiful village located on the lower course of the splendid Volta River. You will pay a courtesy call on the chief and elders amidst traditional drumming and dancing by the villagers. The group will participate in a naming ceremony of recognition, where a Ghanaian name is given to participants, and a gift presented as part of celebrating a new identity as a Ghanaian and a member of the local community. 

 

After lunch, you will visit cedi beads factory and market. Beads play a very important role in the life and culture of the Krobo people of Ghana. Beads are used to mark family status, special occasions, and the important rite of passage of girls into puberty, called the Dipo. Participants will be shown around the factory and observe the making of beads in a traditional manner. The beads come in every imaginable color, shape, and size and are made from recycled glass, beer and wine bottles, and broken windows. They are pounded and crushed with a mortar and pestle and then poured into molds and heated individually in ovens. These ovens are made from termite soils, which are able to withstand high temperatures. After sizzling in a special oven for about 45 minutes, the beads are smoothed while still warm. A cassava stick is put in the center of the bead while it melts into shape. The beads are cooled and hand polished with sand and water and then strung. Participants will even have the opportunity to make their own beads to take home. 

 

Return to Accra and check into the hotel.

Farewell Dinner Included 

 

November 30, 2025 

DAY 08           DEPARTURE FROM ACCRA, GHANA                                                                    

Breakfast at the hotel.

Spend the morning packing and last-minute shopping.

Check out (12:00 noon)

 

Return flight home!

 

 INCLUSIONS:

Inclusions in above prices:

• 7 Nights hotel accommodation as per itinerary based on twin share. 
• All transfers and transportation is by private, air-conditioned coach (One Group transfer meeting one flight only on arrival and departure is included.) 
• Local English-speaking guide in each city
• Arrival Meet & Greet guide assistance,
• Departure guide assistance.

1. Entrances and Tours as noted in itinerary
2. Meals as noted below:

• 7 x Breakfasts
• 1 x lunches 
• 2 x dinners

 

Exclusions in above prices:

• International Flights
• Additional charges will apply for extra transfers if anyone in the group is arriving or departing on different flights. 
• Personal items
• Optional Tours
• Meals unless listed in itinerary or above
• Tips & Gratuities
• Early check-in & late check out of rooms (standard check-in time is 2pm
• Travel Insurance
• Changes in Government/local taxes 
• Any future fuel surcharges on land arrangements or additional costs due to COVID rules
• Visa/passport handling fees

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