GHANA 14 DAY TOUR
Day One - Friday
Depart US
Day Two - Saturday
Your arrival will be at Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana. You will be greeted and assisted once you have completed the immigration and customs formalities. You will transfer to the La Palm Hotel for check-in.
After breakfast, your Tour Director will introduce you to the Sankofa Meroe Tour Guides. The Director will give you an orientation of the program. In addition, you will be given an introduction to Ghana's people and customs; and general health and safety information. Upon request, mobile phones and numbers can be made available for an additional fee upon arrival.
After lunch, our Guide will take you on a sightseeing tour of Accra, Ghana's political and administrative capital, a city with a blend of colonial and modern images. You will visit the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and you will have a brief introduction to shopping at the Arts Center. You can get good buys on the popular Kente cloth, fabrics, carvings, leather goods and jewelry, as well as a host of other souvenir items. In the evening, there will be a "Welcome Dinner."
Day Three -Sunday
After breakfast, you will travel to the outskirts of Accra to the village of Langma for special bar-b-que lunch at Sankofa Beach House. You will have time to take a walk along the ocean to relax and swim. There will be a cultural drum and dance presentation after your lunch. You will return to the hotel for dinner.
Day Four - Monday
Following breakfast, you will participate in an introductory presentation and discussion of Ghana, its people and customs. The presentation is followed by a brief tour of the University and lunch. The rest of the day is a free.
Day Five - Tuesday
After an early morning breakfast, you will travel to Kumasi. After hotel check-in at the Miklen Hotel and lunch, you will visit the National Culture Center and Prempeh II Jubilee Museum. We will continue on with a city tour visiting the Asantehene's Palace. The group will go out to dinner in the evening.
Day Six - Wednesday
After breakfast, you will visit the Ashanti Kingdom Cultural Villages:
Ahiwaa, wood carving village
Ntonso, Adinkra clothe making village
Bonwire, Kente weaving village
After lunch, the balance of the day is free time.
Day Seven - Thursday
After breakfast, you will depart for El Mina and Cape Coast. Along the way to Cape Coast you will visit the memorial commemorating the slave route in Assin Manso. After arrival and check-in at the Coconut Grove Hotel you will have lunch. After lunch you will be guided through the Cape Coast Castle and the West African Historical Museum. After dinner you will have time to discuss your castle experience.
Day Eight - Friday
Breakfast is served at Coconut Grove Hotel. After breakfast, experience the exhilarating effect of a tropical forest at Kakum Nature Reserve. You will take a nature walk into Kakum and traverse one of the worlds few rope bridges in the canopy of the forest. After the nature walk, we will stop for lunch along the ocean. The balance of the day is yours to spend shopping or relaxing.
Day Nine - Saturday
After breakfast, you will depart for the village of Breman-Benin. During the drive, The tour guide will provide an introduction to village and its protocols.
At the village, you will meet with the local chief and elders of the village. You will be given a tour of the village and the schools. You will get an opportunity to sample traditional Ghanaian cuisine and their local drinks. After lunch you will return to Accra.
Day Ten - Sunday
After breakfast, you will travel to the Volta Region and check into the Volta Hotel near the Akosombo Dam. You will take a ride on the "Dodi Princess" for a leisurely cruise on the Volta Lake with live music, food and great views of the Volta Lake. After the ride, you will return to your hotel.
Day Eleven - Monday
After breakfast, you will travel to the mountainous area of Hohoe to visit the Wli Waterfalls. After lunch, you will visit the Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary and return to the Volta Hotel for the night.
Day Twelve - Tuesday
After breakfast, we will depart from the hotel and drive back to Accra. After lunch, the balance of the day and evening are free.
Day Thirteen - Wednesday
Free Day (There will be an optional opportunity to do some specialty shopping at some of our favorite places.)
Day Fourteen - Thursday
After breakfast, you will visit the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Center for Pan African Culture and lay a ceremonial wreath at the tomb of Dr. Du Bois marking the end of your visit to Ghana. After lunch you are free to take care of last minute items. In the evening there will be a "Farewell Dinner" prior to your departure from Ghana.
Day Fifteen - Saturday
Early morning check-in and return flight to the US.
Price: $2280 per person based on a minimum of 10 people
This package includes:
Luxury air-conditioned buses
Meals – All breakfasts, nine lunches and seven dinners
Bottled Water
Tours to all the attractions listed and entrance fees
Four Star Hotel – double occupancy in Accra and Three Star in Cape Coast and Akosombo and Kumasi (single occupancy upgrade available for $1200)
Tour Guides
This package assumes:
During the free times, participants should be free to select lunch and dinner on their own. Therefore, lunches and dinners that are omitted can be added back.
We do not handle air transportation, but we are willing to give you contacts in the US for consolidators who can assist you in getting a good fare. The assumption is that you will fly Delta or a direct flight from the US arriving in the morning. Adjustments for European airlines can be made for your tour.
There will be guides to assist the tour.
A room assignment by gender or couples will be required to make the proper room reservations. We are quoting the upper end of the accommodations scale at all locations. If you desire, we can down grade the accommodations if budget is an issue.
For bookings and clarifications you can contact us.
Sankofa Meroe Tours is an African American tour operator based in Ghana. We recognize the importance of having a tour operator in Ghana that understands and appreciates the uniqueness of the African American tourist. Like all tourists African American tourists expect excellent, efficient and reliable service. In addition, you come to Africa with a sense of "homecoming" and "pilgrimage" and it is important for the tour operator to understand and embrace these emotions when they arrive in Ghana.
We know "where the African American tourist is coming from" because our people are familiar with the historical experience, sentiments and culture of their African American brothers and sisters visiting Ghana. As a consequence, there are added touches and a sense of familiarity when the African American tourist is working with Sankofa Meroe Tours.
The owner of Sankofa Meroe Tours is also a former resident of Nigeria who has close links with business owners in Nigeria. Sankofa Meroe Tours appreciates the close relationship between Ghanaians and Nigerians is attempting to facilitate Nigerian tourists looking for a familiar change of pace in Ghana at a price substantially lower than flying to Europe. We have packaged the basic tour that will interest those coming to visit Ghana for its beaches, culture, shopping, golf and religious activity.
After traveling to and within Africa and organizing tours for almost two decades, Masao formalized his experience and launched Sankofa Meroe Tours. The collective experience includes living and working in Africa; establishing relationships and contacts that afford group participants access to people and places generally unreachable to tourists; tailoring tour activities based on your group's interest (Business, Education, History, Music & Arts, Architecture, or personal preference tours).
