DAY 2: Accra - Tamale

After breakfast, depart Accra for our long drive to Tamale visiting nearby villages on your way.

Arrive early evening and check into our hotel.

Hotel: Mariam Hotel or Similar

Meal Plan: Breakfast & Dinner

Day 3: Tamale - Sirigu Cultural Village - Tamale

Breakfast at your hotel. Visit Sirigu village near Navrongo. The village is renowned for its elaborately decorated adobe compounds painted by local women. The houses are covered in red, black and white geometric patterns as well as depictions of animals and people, most popularly “the man with two faces”, who holds a fowl in one hand and a cross in the other, symbolizing the coexistence of traditional beliefs and Christianity.

Return to Tamale after your tour of Sirigu village. You will also visit Tongo Hills and the Witches camp. You will have time to interact with the people

Hotel: Mariam Hotel or Similar

Meal Plan: Breakfast & Dinner

Day 4: Tamale - Kumasi

Take a drive after breakfast to Kumasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana via Kintanpo waterfalls and Buabeng –Fiema Monkey Sanctuary in the Brong Ahafo Region. Buabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary is Ghana's most famous example of traditional African conservation. The sanctuary is nestled in between the two villages of Buabeng and Fiema; the sanctuary is home to over 200 Geoffrey’s Pied Columbus and 500 Campbell's Mona Monkeys.

For more than 150 years, the people of Boabeng and Fiema have considered the monkeys sacred. The traditional beliefs in both communities prohibit physical harm to the monkeys. Additionally, the 2 communities came together in 1975 to pass a local modern law prohibiting harm to the monkeys.

Continue to Kumasi for overnight.

Hotel: Noda Hotel or Similar

Meal Plan: Breakfast & Dinner

Day 5: Kumasi - Accra

After taking sumptuous breakfast at your hotel, you will visit the Manhyia Palace Museum which was built by the British in 1925 to receive Asantehene (ruler of the Ashanti people) Prempeh I when he returned from exile in the Seychelles to resume residence in Kumasi. It was used by the Ashanti kings until 1974. It now serves as a museum, containing a range of items relating to the Ashanti Kingdom, particularly Prempeh I (ruled 1888-1931) and Prempeh II (ruled 1931-1970).  Visit the nearby Okomfo Anokye Sword. This sword planted over 300 years with the prophecy the day it will be taken off the unity on the great Kingdom of the Ashanti's will end.

Continue with visits to the three Ashanti craft villages starting with the woodcarving village of Ahwiaa, known for the talented craftsmen who fashion royal stools, walking sticks and fertility dolls from wood.  You will have the opportunity to purchase hand carved items of all kinds. The next stop is the village of Ntonso where artisan’s hand-stamp patterns on cotton cloth to make Adinkra textiles. Adkinkra cloth is worn for funerals and other solemn occasions. The final village is Bonwire, where the famous Kente cloth is handmade on looms in a time-honored tradition passed down through generations. You will see the Kente weavers in process of creating Kente cloth in various styles, and have the opportunity to purchase souvenirs expertly woven Kente.

Continue to Accra.

Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight

Hotel: Roots Apartments or Similar

Meal Plan: Breakfast & Dinner

Day 6: Accra  - Depart

Based on your flight time, your driver and guide will guide you to decide on the activities for the day.

Transfer to the airport for your flight back home.

Meal Plan: Breakfast