Duration: 2 days


Day 1

Accra - Kumasi

You will be picked up from your hotel after an early morning breakfast.

We drive to the popular garden city of Ghana. We will visit Kumasi Central Market, the largest traditional market in West Africa. At the market you can buy anything you need. From there we continue to the National Cultural Centre with a good craft section.

We will also visit the Prempeh II Jubilee Museum for a good overview of Ashanti history.

On the grounds of the Okomfo Anokye hospital is a sword which was planted in the ground by Okomfo Anokye, once a powerful fetish priest who lived among the Ashanti people to mark the spot where the Golden Stool descended from the sky. Ever since this sword was planted in the soil many years back, most people have through various means tried to uproot it but to no avail.

There is also a Armed Forces Museum near the central post office which we visit, from there we move on to the Manhyia palace, the official residence of the chief of the Ashanti people (Asantehene). The Ashanti people and their sub-chiefs have been able to preserve the traditional authority in the Asantehene before and even after independence.


Day 2

Kumasi - Accra

After breakfast we head a few kilometres to the outskirts of Kumasi. There are a few villages making traditional products and you can watch the people at work.

Bonwire is known for their best loam woven Kente fabrics in West Africa. Kente cloth, according to tradition, originated from Bonwire.
Ntonso is known as the major centre for manufacturing and designing Adinkra cloth. This cloth is mainly used for traditional funerals you see all over Ghana, mostly on Saturdays.

After lunch we will depart for Accra and you will be in your hotel before dinner.