Ghana, one day at a time.
How long the drive to Cape Coast really takes. Which Mole trip walks you up to the elephants. What a naming ceremony involves before you agree to one. Every tour in Ghana, reviewed.
The six days most Ghana trips are built around.
The capital, the canopy walkway, the elephants in the north, the gardens up the escarpment, the cocoa pods and the Ashanti capital. Start with the day you came for and work outwards.
The castles on Ghana’s Atlantic coast.
Cape Coast Castle and Elmina Castle stand on the shore about three hours west of Accra. Both hold the dungeons and the doorway through which captives were put onto ships. Most visits run as a long day from the capital, and many stop at the Assin Manso river on the way. Our reviews set out what each tour covers, how long the day runs and what it costs.
Guides at both castles work with school groups and returning families as well as visitors. Sites open daily; photography is restricted inside the dungeons.
Cape Coast and Elmina castle tours →Accra rewards the traveller who books a guide.
Makola at full volume, the Black Star Gate at the end of a wide empty avenue, waakye from a roadside pot, and a coastline that most itineraries drive straight past. A guided morning turns a confusing city into a walkable one.
- 1Accra Detailed City Tourfrom $80
- 2Accra Guided City Tour Experiencefrom $45
- 3Accra Guided City Tour Experiencefrom $70
What a day out in Ghana actually costs.
Every tour on the site, sorted by price. Ghana is not a cheap-tour destination once a driver and a long drive are involved, and the gap between a city morning and a northern safari is the whole story.
City mornings, market walks, cooking classes and the gardens above Accra.
The full-day runs: Cape Coast and Elmina, Boti Falls and Aburi, Kumasi with a guide.
Private cars for the day, the northern safaris, and multi-day trips that cross the country.
The tours travellers in Ghana take most.
The full Ghana list →The days that fill up first, and what each one gets you for its price.
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Accra Detailed City Tour
Explore Accra’s museums, markets, forts, monuments, and Labadi Beach with a private guide on this flexible Ghana city tour.
From · $80
Read our review →2
Accra Guided City Tour Experience
from $45
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Accra Guided City Tour Experience
from $70
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Boti Falls, Umbrella Rock, Aburi Gardens & Cocoa Farm Tour
from $94
5
Home Cooking Class by Auntie K
from $89
6
Private Car Service
from $75
7
5 Days Adventurous Wildlife Safari
from $922
8
Know Ghana in 4 hrs – Accra City Tour
from $100
Ghana’s wildlife is real, and it is mostly in the parks.
Mole holds elephants, kob and warthog, and the walking safaris put you on the ground with a ranger rather than behind glass. Shai Hills is an easy hour from Accra for baboons and the plains below the cliffs. Wechiau, out west on the Black Volta, is hippo country. None of it is a day trip from the airport, and that is the point.
The canopy walkway is the best hour in the rainforest.
Seven rope-and-plank bridges strung between hardwoods, forty metres above the forest floor, with the canopy moving underneath you. Go early: the walkway is quiet before the coaches arrive and the forest is still making noise. Most Kakum trips pair it with a coastal day, but the park stands up on its own.
All Kakum trips (21) →
Kente, cocoa and a Ghanaian kitchen.
Three things Ghana does that nowhere else does the same way, each of them a half day with someone who has done it their whole life.
Kente on the Loom
Kente is woven in narrow strips on a wooden loom, then stitched edge to edge into a cloth. Bonwire, half an hour out of Kumasi, is the village the Ashanti court has taken its cloth from for centuries. Patterns carry names and meanings, and a weaver will tell you which one you are watching. A strip takes hours; a full cloth takes weeks.
- 1Bonwire Namimg Ceremony and Kente Tourist Center★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 40 reviews
- 2Tour Kumasi City Like a Local★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 34 reviews
- 3Traditional naming ceremony For African Diasporas in Kumasi★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 10 reviews
The Cocoa Pod
Ghana grows some of the best cocoa in the world and Tetteh Quarshie’s farm at Mampong is where the crop started, from pods carried home in 1876. On a farm visit somebody cuts a pod open in front of you: the beans come out wrapped in white pulp that tastes of lychee and nothing like chocolate. Fermenting and drying happen on mats by the road.
- 1Boti Falls, Umbrella Rock, Aburi Gardens & Cocoa Farm Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 72 reviews
- 2Experience Boti Waterfalls, Aburi Botanical Gardens & Tetteh Quarshie Cocoa Farm★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 38 reviews
- 3Escape Accra City to Aburi Gardens and Tetteh Quarshie Cocoa Farms★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 32 reviews
Jollof, Argued Over
Ghanaian jollof is cooked in the same pot as its stock so the rice takes the colour, and the debate with Nigeria over whose is better is genuinely unresolved. A class usually starts at the market picking out shito, kontomire and smoked fish, then runs through waakye, red-red or banku with tilapia in somebody’s kitchen.
- 1Home Cooking Class by Auntie K★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 62 reviews
- 2Local Ghanaian Cooking Class in Accra to help support wellness community center★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 22 reviews
- 3Authentic Ghanaian Cooking Class in Accra★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 11 reviews
Book these before you fly to Ghana.
Most of Accra can be arranged the night before from your hotel. These cannot: they run on long drives, fixed departures and families who need notice.
- 013 Days Grassroots Safari To MoleMole is a full day north of Accra. The multi-day safaris leave on set dates and the park lodges are small.
- 02The Ancestral Naming Ceremony and Home Coming ExperienceA naming ceremony is arranged with a family and an elder. It needs notice, not a same-day booking.
- 03Bonwire Namimg Ceremony and Kente Tourist CenterThe Bonwire weavers set up workshop days in advance; a loom is not a drop-in attraction.
- 042-Day Private Tour to the Mount Afadjato and Wli WaterfallsWli and Mount Afadjato sit on the Togo border, five hours out. The transport is booked ahead or it does not happen.
Ghana’s wet months are May to July, and they change the plan, not the trip.
The heavy rain usually falls in bursts rather than all day, with a second lighter run in September and October. Dirt roads to the falls turn slow, so the answers move indoors and into the city: a kitchen, a drum lesson, a market under cover, a long lunch. December to February brings the opposite problem, the harmattan blowing dust down from the Sahara and hazing every view.
By place — north to coast
Accra268 tours
Cape Coast and Elmina83 tours
Kakum National Park21 tours
Kumasi17 tours
Aburi23 tours
Volta and Akosombo13 tours
Shai Hills11 tours
Tamale7 tours- Mole National Park8 tours
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