Itinerary

• Lodging: La Palm Royal Hotel
  
• Arrive at Kotoka International Airport in the morning or afternoon. Pick-up to your hotel. Check into your hotel. Settle in, relax and connect to the motion of the Motherland.
  
• Enjoy the pool or a cool beverage on the beach
  
• Lunch on your own

Evening Activity

Welcome ceremony and orientation. Learn some Ghanaian Twi language.

Naming ceremony: Everyone in the group shall receive their Ghanaian name and naming certificate.

Dinner on African Planet and Ananse Tours.

• Visit the W.E.B Dubois Center for Pan African Culture
  
• Drive through down-town Accra
  
• Tour the Kwame Nkrumah Park and Museum
  
• Lunch on your own at Frankie’s Restaurant
  
• Visit Makola Market. Accra’s largest traditional open air market.
  
• Return to the hotel via Independence Square. Optional climb to the top to view the city.

Evening Activity

Afrikiko Entertainment Center. Includes Skate City skating rink, local food, reggae music, and the lively
Italian Restaurant.

Dinner on your own at Afrikiko restaurant

• Depart for Dodi Princess cruise, boat river ride on Lake Volta. Enjoy a memorable, safe
  
• and exciting boat cruise on the largest man-made lake in the world. Enjoy some good Ghanaian music as
  
• you cruise the lake.
  
• Lunch on the cruise.
  
• Return to La Palm Royal Hotel

Evening Activity

Dinner on your own at the restaurant at the hotel or in town

Relax at the hotel

• Visit Aburi Botanical Garden. Optional ATV ride
  
• Lunch on your own at Aburi gardens restaurant.
  
• Visit Kroboland bead making site.
  
• Witness the process of bead-making
  
• Check into Eastern Premiere Hotel in Koforidua

Evening Activity

Enjoy the hotel amenities including gym, pool and music. Optional night out in Koforidua

Dinner on your own at the hotel.

• Early visit to the Tafi Monkey Sanctuary
  
• Lunch on your own
  
• Afternoon at Boti Falls. Relax and swim by the Falls

Evening Activity

Enjoy hotel amenities. Optional night out in Koforidua

Dinner on your own at the hotel

• Leave Korforida early in the morning for Kumasi. Arrive in the Ashanti Region in the afternoon.
  
• Visit Besease to pay homage to the stool land and burial place of the heroine Queen Mother Yaa
  
• Asantewaa.
  
• Check into Lancaster Hotel
  
• Lunch at Las Palmas for a taste of local chop bar cuisine.
  
• Visit the Kumasi Cultural Centre and the Prempeh Museum for an introduction into Ashanti Culture.

Evening Activity

Enjoy hotel amenities. Optional night out in Koforidua

Dinner on your own at the hotel

• Kumasi City Tour
  
• Visit Manhyia Palace Museum.
  
• Visit site of the Okomfo Anokye immovable sword, driven into the ground by the first priest of Asante
  
• nearly 300 years ago and which has never been removed.
  
• Visit Military Fort Museum. Shopping in Adum
  
• Lunch at Joffel Restaurant

• Bonwire kente weaving, the leading center of kente weaving in the Ashanti region. Learn and observe
  the art of hand weaving.
  
• Ahwiaa wood crafts village. Observe the production of Ashanti stools, Akuaba fertility dolls, masks,
  symbolic figures, bone, and ivory wood beads etc.
  
• Ntonso Craft Village: Ghana’s earliest producer of Adinkra, a cloth famed for its symbols and proverbial
  wisdom for communication.

Evening Activity

Dinner on African Planet and Ananse Tours

Enjoy hotel amenities.

• (Possible Enstoolment in Besease)

• Visit Assin Manso Slave River site. The Last Bath for the enslaved people walking to the Coast from the
  North.
  
• Lunch on your own
  
• Visit Elmina Castle and Dungeon.
  
• Check into Coconut Grove Hotel and Resort.

Evening Activity

• Relax by the beach or pool
  
• Dinner on your own at Coconut Grove.

• Boat ride to Cape Coast Castle Dungeon.
  
• Cape Coast ritual and tribute to be performed at the “Door of No Return” which today is
  
• called the “Door of Return.” Attire- all white clothing.
  
• Tour of Cape Coast and lunch in town

Evening Activity

• Dinner at Coconut Grove Resort. Enjoy the beach and pool. Other amenities may
  
• include golf and horseback riding.
  
• Optional activity: Dance performance at Lemon Beach Resort

• Visit Kakum National Park. Walk along the canopy walkway of Kakum Park. Learn the history of the park,
  
• and some of the economic and cultural values of the plants and trees growing there. Try some of the
  local natural palm wine or fresh coco fruit usually sold at the park entrance.
  
• Lunch on your own at the Park.
  
• After two hour ride back to Accra, check back into LaPalm Royal Beach Hotel.

Evening Activity

• Optional Accra at Night
  
• Dinner on African Planet and Ananse Tours

• Depart to Kotoka International Airport to USA
  
• Wishing you a safe flight and journey!