Akwaaba · Welcome to Ghana
A place to begin. A reason to stay. Discover Ghana through carefully researched places, local stories and practical guides.
Kakum canopy walkway · Photo: daSupremo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
National Theatre, Accra · Photo: Francisco Anzola from United States · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Elephant, Mole National Park · Photo: Matti Blume · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Cape Coast Castle from above · Photo: Iamelikem · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Larabanga Mosque, Savannah Region · Photo: ZSM · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Oguaa Fetu Afahye, Cape Coast · Photo: Kwameghana(Bright Kwame Ayisi) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Fishing canoes, Elmina · Photo: Isaac Ayensu · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Kente weaving, Bonwire · Photo: Sadads · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Adowa dancers · Photo: Selina-Emma Laryea · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
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Ashanti Region
The road from Kumasi climbs through cocoa country, crests a forested ridge, and then the land simply drops away. Below, filling a bowl of green hills, lies Lake Bosomtwe: a near-perfect circle of water that has no out...
Get to know Abono
Eastern Region
The road out of Accra climbs, and the air changes first. Somewhere past the toll gate the heat loosens its grip, the plain of Greater Accra drops away behind you, and by the time the royal palms line up at the garden ...
Get to know Aburi
Greater Accra Region
At first light in Jamestown, the fishing canoes come in off the Gulf of Guinea and the smell of smoked fish drifts up through lanes that have been walked for centuries. Above them stands a red-and-white lighthouse, an...
Get to know Accra
Greater Accra Region
Stand on the sandbar at Azizanya and you can watch two waters argue. On one side the Volta arrives brown and unhurried, carrying the silt of a river that has crossed half of West Africa; on the other, the Atlantic rol...
Get to know Ada FoahStart exploring
Attraction · Paga
A sacred pond in Paga, Upper East Region, where habituated West African crocodiles are called to shore by guides and are central to local totem tradition.
Photo: Dieu-Donné Gameli · Source
Attraction · Nkwanta
A mountainous national park in Ghana's Oti Region, on the Togo border, with forest-savanna habitats, waterfalls and hiking and mountain-biking trails.
Photo: Tahiru Rajab · Source
Beach · Winneba
Winneba Beach is the working shoreline of Winneba (Simpa), a historic fishing port and Effutu Municipal capital on Ghana's Central Region coast near the Ayensu River mouth.
Photo: oneVillage Initiative · Source
Attraction · Tongo
Tengzug Shrine is the paramount shrine of the Talensi people, set among sacred shrines in the cliffs of the Tongo Hills, about 15 km southeast of Bolgatanga.
Photo: Alhaj Darajaati · Source
Attraction · Aburi
Aburi Botanical Gardens is a 64.8-hectare botanical garden in Aburi, Eastern Region, Ghana, opened in March 1890 and known for its plant collections and recreation areas.
Photo: Nkansahrexford · Source
Beach · Ada Foah
Palm-lined beach and estuary at Ada Foah, about 120 km from Accra, where the Volta River meets the Atlantic Ocean.
Photo: SanBa · Source
Find your kind of trip
Sun, surf and fishing villages
Cool water and forest walks
Where the coast's history was written
Wildlife and wild places
Close to Accra
Kente, beads and carving
Everyday Ghana
Coast, cities & everything between
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