Tinikia Jones

Visionary Travel

Ghana 🇬🇭 Honoring the Ancestors

May 5, 2024 to May 12, 2024
Ghana 🇬🇭


Let’s get you booked to Ghana❗️

 
 
 
 

What's included in this trip:

Included ✔ Accommodation as specified or similar
✔ This is only a quote and no reservations are being held.If hotels advertised are unavailable upon receiving your confirmation. We will reserve rooms in comparable hotels for the group and advise you immediately.
✔ Meals indicated in the itinerary (B/L/D)
✔ This quote is valid for 7 days from today.
✔ All government taxes and service charges
✔ Tour includes arrival and departure transfer for clients arriving on different flights
✔ Services of an experienced English-speaking local guide
 
What's not included:
Not included X Travel Protection Plan
X International flights
X Domestic flights
X Coverage for unforeseen events such as medical emergency, baggage loss or cancellation of your trip
X Passport, visa fees & other related arrangements
X Expenses of a personal nature such as telephone calls, laundry, beverages, massage & other spa treatments etc.
X Porterage, tips and gratuities
X Water in coaches
X Beverages during meals unless specified in the itinerary
X Optional tours and transfers

Itinerary:
Arrive In Ghana 🇬🇭 
SUNDAY May 5

 
 

Welcome to Ghana!

Upon arrival at Kotoka International Airport, proceed through immigration formalities. Then collect your baggage and meet our local representative outside of the customs exit gate who will be holding a sign board with your name and our logo. Transfer to your hotel for check-in and overnight. Spend the remainder of the day at leisure.

A coastal country on the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana's rich cultural diversity is celebrated throughout the country. The capital Accra is modernizing without losing its African roots as illustrated in contemporary artistic festivals such as Afrochella. Kumasi, the capital of the kingdom of the Ashanti gold, faithfully practices the rituals of Awukudae and Akwasidae, praising their king. The Dagomba, with their clay huts and thatched roofs, are reminiscent of Africa's pre-colonial era. Further north, the Gurunsi decorate their homes with frescoes and the Lobi build fortified houses with “minimalist” architecture.

Ghana's history is strongly linked to the grandness of the Ashanti Kingdom. During the Trans-Atlantic slave trade the Ashanti capital, Kumasi, was one of the most sophisticated and developed cities in all of Africa. The “Gold Coast” named by the Portuguese in the 15th century is home to ancient European forts indicative of the trade between Europe, Africa, and America. In particular, the Elmina and Cape Coast forts have been declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO. In 1957, the first President Kwame Nkrumah changed the country’s name to Ghana after one of the great West African empires and transformed the country into a republic, the first African nation to gain independence.

The climate of Ghana is tropical. The rainy season is from April through October. Daytime temperatures are often in the 80s and nights are balmy in the mid to upper 70s.

OTHER ENTRY / EXIT REQUIREMENTS FOR U.S. CITIZENS:
-A passport valid for 6 months beyond your return. A Visa is required along with proof of Yellow Fever vaccination for entry into Ghana.
■ Meals included- D Enjoy a welcome dinner at your hotel.
■ Meet Tailors and dressmakers This evening, you will meet local tailors and dressmakers featuring casual wear and formal garments made from local fabrics and textiles. You may purchase ready-made clothes or place an order for a custom made outfit. Local hair braiders will also be available to showcase a wide range of hairstyles.
Overnight: 4* Hotel in Accra


 

MONDAY May 6

Accra City Tour
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel before departing for a tour of the city and visiting W.E.B. Du Bois Centre for Pan Africanism.
■ Meals included- B/L Breakfast at your hotel, Lunch at local restaurant
■ Full Day City Tour of Accra Accra is a metropolis going through fast development. Skyscrapers and modern buildings shape the financial quarter where ladies and gentlemen walk down the streets in nice suites. This quarter vanishes into the first settlement of Accra the quarter of James Town, inhabited by the local population known as the Ga. You will drive through the administrative and economic districts of Accra, the capital of Ghana. This 137-year-old city has a blend of colonial and modern architecture that summarize her history. You will visit W.E.B. Du Bois Centre for Pan Africanism - the final burial place and home of the prominent American Pan Africanist Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, who led the Pan-African congress between 1919 and 1927. It is currently a Pan African Center for culture and it also has a research library and gallery full of manuscripts.

The Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum and Park - final resting place of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana. This Mausoleum has been visited by many world dignitaries.Stop for a light lunch at a local restaurant (own account) and continue to Old Accra which was divided into Dutch and British Accra as a result of the two European nations operating from different locations within the same township of a little under 1 sq. kilometer. You will drive past Fort Crêvecoeur (Ussher Fort) built by the Dutch in 1652, James Fort built by the British in 1662, Old Accra Square and the Post Office, and the old light House built by the British to guide commercial ships into the Accra Harbor.
Drive past the Independence Arch and the Black Star Square-Accra's ceremonial grounds to visit the National Centre for Arts and Crafts. See local craftsmen carve and make local drums. Sample and buy any of the crafts from this open market.
Overnight: 4* Hotel in Accra
 
 Tuesday May 7
Day 3 - Accra - Dungeons Tour - Cape Coast
After breakfast, depart Accra to the Central Region. Drive along the coast past several fishing villages and cocoa nut-lined beaches. Visit Elmina Castle and after lunch at a local restaurant( at your own expense), continue to the Cape Coast Castle. Enter the “Door of No Return”, and pay a solemn homage to African ancestors.
After the tour, check in at your hotel in Cape Coast.
■ Meals included- B/D Breakfast at your hotel, Dinner at Ridge Royal Hotel
■ Elmina Castle Visit the Elmina Castle built by the Portuguese in 1482. It is also known as St. George's Castle. This castle was the first European structure build in Sub-Saharan Africa. The colorful harbor nestled below the Elmina Castle, full of pirogues preparing to go to sea offers one of West Africa's greatest photo opportunities.

This UNESCO World Heritage Site marks the first place where Europeans landed in West Africa. It changed hands several times between the Dutch, the Portuguese and the British, finally becoming an auction market for slaves. See the slave dungeons and the condemned cell where recaptured runaway slaves were incarcerated.
■ Cape Coast Castle Originally started by the Swedes in 1652. It served as the headquarters and seat of the British colonial government until 1877. Go on a comprehensive tour of the Castle, the slave dungeons where enslaved Africans were incarcerated, the West African Heritage Museum (currently closed for refurbishment), and the negotiation hall where our ancestors were bargained for and sold. Learn about the powerfully symbolic Door of No Return, the last exit point for slaves being transported to the Americas This UNESCO World Heritage Monument has been visited by several world personalities including US President Barack and Michelle Obama, Steve Harvey, Boris Kodjoe, Danny Glover, etc.
■ Ridge Royal Hotel Moving from the ordinary, you get to live like Royalty. Ridge Royal Hotel takes you to the ridge of comfort and luxury in the best style possible. Situated in the historic City of Cape Coast, Ghana, this 78-room hotel boasts of a picturesque landscape in a serene environment. Richly inviting , comfortably yours. Pick a room that best suits your taste and budget. All rooms come with Smart TV, Breakfast, Free Wifi and AC. Standard Rooms come with spacious layouts with either picture-perfect views of the hotel or the heart of the hotel’s wide-ranging Entertainment Centre.

Overnight: Ridge Royal Hotel

Wednesday May 8

Day 4 - Cape Coast - Sekondi - Cape Coast
After breakfast, depart for Sekondi in the Western region. Arrive and visit Bisa Aberwa Museum located near Sekondi in the Western Region.
After the tour, return to Cape Coast. Enjoy Birthday party dinner at the hotel
■ Meals included- B/D Breakfast at your hotel, Dinner at your hotel
■ Bisa Aberwa Museum The Bisa Aberwa Museum is created to be one of the largest sculptural representations in clay, wood, cement, paintings and photographs of personalities whose sacrifices have shaped African history, both within the continent and the diaspora. It has about 2,200 artefacts, sculptural pieces and photographs of heroes of the African struggle and the African American Civil Rights Movement as well as other Black personalities in the French, Portuguese and Spanish Caribbean.

Bisa Aberwa Museum houses one of the world’s largest private collections of artefacts, sculpture and audio-visual representations of the African story. The specimens on display are about personalities whose sacrifices have shaped African history, both within the continent and the diaspora. They capture events within the slave dungeons in Africa, the toils of the Africans on the slave plantations and highlights of the Civil Rights Movement culminating in the election of the first African American as president of the United States of America.
Overnight: Ridge Royal Hotel


Thursday May 9
Day 5 - Elmina - Kumasi Via Assin Manso Slave River
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel before checking out and departing for Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. Stop at Assin Manso to visit the burial site of the remains of two ancestors exhumed from New York’s Wall Street & Kingston Jamaica and re-interred on Emancipation Day 1998. A third ancestor was also brought and interred by the Prime Minister of Barbados in November 2019 as part of the “YEAR OF RETURN” GHANA 2019. Visit the DONKO NSUO (the slave river) where the African captives were allowed to take their last bath in the waters of their native land. The European merchants branded their bodies for identification before they were marched to the Dungeons in Elmina and Cape Coast. This offers you the opportunity to remember your ancestors by dipping or washing your hands in the sacred water of Assin Manso.
Continue on to Kumasi driving through cocoa-growing communities. Note the change in vegetative cover from coastal savannah to forest belt as you drive northwards.
Arrive in Kumasi and have lunch at a local restaurant
Check into your hotel.
■ Meals included- B/L Breakfast at your hotel, Lunch at a local restaurant
■ Assin Manso Assin Manso, the final resting place of the remains of two former enslaved Africans exhumed from New York’s Wall Street and Jamaica Kingston and re-interred on the Emancipation Day 1998. Visit the “Enslaved African River” which was the last rest stop for slaves on their “one-way” trek to the coast for shipment into slavery.
■ Donkor Nsuo The Slave River, where the African captives were allowed to take their last bath in the waters of their native land. The European merchants branded their bodies for identification before they were marched to the Dungeons in Elmina and Cape Coast. This offers you the opportunity to send a message to your- ancestors.
■ Lancaster Kumasi City Lancaster Kumasi offers accommodation with a restaurant, free private parking, a fitness center, and a bar. 11 miles from Owabi Wildlife Sanctuary and 3 miles from Manhyia Palace, the property features a garden and a tennis court. The accommodation provides a 24-hour front desk, room service, and currency exchange for guests.
The hotel will provide guests with air-conditioned rooms offering a desk, a kettle, a fridge, a safety deposit box, a flat-screen TV, and a private bathroom with a shower. The rooms are equipped with a coffee machine, while some rooms also feature a kitchenette with a microwave, a minibar, and a stovetop. All guest rooms feature a wardrobe.

Overnight: Lancaster Kumasi City

FRIDAY May10

Day 6 - Ashanti Craft Villages & Kumasi City Tour
Depart after breakfast to visit a few Ashanti craft villages such as Bonwire/Adawumase where the famous Kente cloth is handmade on looms, in a time-honored tradition passed down through generations. In contrast, Asante Kente is designed using brighter colors and geometric patterns with unblemished precisions. Here you have the opportunity to learn the various processes involved in Kente cloth weaving. Continue to Ntonso – where the main economic activities are further enhancing and adding beauty to the traditional textile printing, see Adinkra cloth and tie-and-dye processing and get a demonstration of how intricate designs are applied to this sacred mourning cloth. Adinkra cloth is designed by an indigenous artist whose expertise lies in textual printing using traditional symbols that express the spiritual, moral, political, and socio-cultural philosophies of the Akan people and offer you the opportunity to create your own designs.

After lunch, visit the Manhyia Palace Museum & National Cultural Centre and Prempeh II Museum.
■ Meals included- B/L Breakfast at your hotel, Lunch at a local restaurant
■ Manhyia Palace Museum The museum was built by the British in 1925 to receive Prempeh I when he returned from a quarter of a century of exile in Seychelles to resume residence in Kumasi. It was used by the Ashanti kings until 1974 and later converted into a museum that houses exhibits such as royal regalia, photographs, medals, furniture, drums, and palanquins which are over two hundred years, a battle dress that dates back to 1900, and many objects of historical significance as well as effigies of all past kings and the current occupant of the Golden Stool.
■ National Cultural Centre and Prempeh II Museum This museum displays artefacts relating to the Ashanti King Prempeh II, including the king's war attire, ceremonial clothing, jewellery, protective amulets, personal equipment for bathing and dining, furniture, royal insignia and some fine brass weights for weighing gold. Constructed to resemble an Ashanti chief's house, it has a courtyard in front and walls adorned with traditional carved symbols.
■ Kumasi Kumasi the historical and spiritual capital of the old Ashanti Kingdom. A city proud of its past as much as it is of its present with a flourishing economy thanks to the exploitation of its gold mines and its forests. The Ashanti people were one of the most powerful nations in Africa until the end of the 19th century, when the British annexed Ashanti Country to their Gold Coast colony. The tribute paid today to the Asantehene (King) is the best evidence of their past splendour and strength. With nearly one million inhabitants, Kumasi is a sprawling city with a fantastic central market - one of the biggest in Africa.
Overnight: Lancaster Kumasi City

Saturday May 11

Day 7 - Kumasi - Accra
After breakfast, check out and depart for Accra and stop to visit a few Ashanti craft villages en route. Interact with the Chief and his elders.

Continue to Accra with a drive past several rustic farming villages and towns. Arrive in Accra in the evening and check in to your hotel. Tailors and dressmakers will return with your ordered dresses.
■ Meals included- B/D Breakfast at your hotel, Dinner at your hotel
■ Kumasi to Accra This would provide a unique opportunity to see traditional cultural performances and to meet and interact with the Chief and his People. Learn more about village life in Ghana and share experiences. Participate in a traditional Ghanaian naming ceremony. Participants will be given Ghanaian names with attributes. It would be interesting to compare your given attributes with who you are today.
Overnight: 4* Hotel in Accra




Cancellation Policy

All trip payments are nonrefundable after payment. We strongly recommend travel insurance. It’s bad enough to miss a vacation, but to miss the vacation and lose the money is a very unfortunate circumstance. 

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