Dandwa Waterfall

Dandwa Waterfall is a waterfall at Dandwa, a farming community in the Nkoranza South Municipality of the Bono East Region. It sits on the Nkoranza–Ejura Highway, roughly six kilometres from Nkoranza, the municipal capital — about a 15-minute drive — with a further one kilometre from the Dandwa community to the site itself.

The Daily Graphic describes the water flowing from a hanging rock of about 14 feet before falling steeply over a rocky ledge into a plunge pool, set among different species of trees in a serene, forested setting. GhanaWeb likewise describes it cascading over a rocky ledge into a plunge pool below. Residents say the fall has flowed nonstop since it was discovered many years ago; GhanaDistricts reports the site was discovered in 1998. The area also holds caves that residents say served as a resting place for their ancestors.

What a visitor can reasonably expect is limited. Sources state that visitors can only stand on top of the rocks to enjoy the flowing water, and that swimming is not possible because there is not enough water on the ground. No entrance fee is charged; the Bono East Regional Director of the Ghana Tourism Authority, Joseph Appiagyei, said that because there were no facilities at the site, people continued to visit without paying any fee.

The site remains largely undeveloped. Under an abandoned public-private partnership, five summer huts and a lawn tennis court were built upstream but abandoned; some huts were burnt by bushfire and others collapsed, while GhanaWeb reports four abandoned summer huts left in the bush. Appiagyei said the chiefs sold the site to a private developer under the PPP, complicating GTA development. Both Daily Graphic and GhanaWeb report that the one-kilometre access road is in poor, unmotorable condition, which deters visitors.

Practical information is thin. No opening hours, fee schedule, toilets, changing rooms, food or water facilities, guided access, public transport or wheelchair access were documented, and no safety guidance was found. Visitors should treat conditions as unmanaged and confirm the current state of the access road locally before travelling.