Destination guides
Where to go in Ghana
Guides to the towns and regions worth the journey: their stories, what to do, how to plan your time and what to know before you go. Every guide links to the places it recommends.
Regions
Greater Accra Region
Accra
Plan a trip to Accra, Ghana's capital: Jamestown's forts and lighthouse, Nkrumah Memorial Park, Makola Market, Labadi Beach and the Chale Wote festival.
Ada Foah
Where the Volta River meets the Atlantic: Ada Foah's estuary, palm-lined beaches, Songor Lagoon birdlife, Fort Kongenstein and August's Asafotufiami festival.
Doryumu
Plan a trip to Doryumu in Shai-Osudoku, Greater Accra: Shai Hills Resource Reserve hikes, Sayu Cave, baboons, the community market and the Ngmayem festival.
Prampram
Plan a trip to Prampram, the Ga-Dangme coastal town east of Accra: Atlantic beaches, the ruins of Fort Vernon, the fishing shore and Lalue Kpledomi festival.
Teshie
Plan a visit to Teshie in Ghana's Ledzokuku Municipality: design coffins, a ruined Danish fort, Ga shrines, Homowo rites and the Atlantic shore.
Central Region
Anomabo
Plan a visit to Anomabo in Ghana's Central Region: Fort William, the Memorial Garden of Return, Asafo posuban shrines and a working Atlantic fishing beach.
Apam
Plan a visit to Apam in Ghana's Central Region: the Dutch Fort Patience, a working fishing harbour, the great Asafo posuban shrine and the Atlantic beach.
Cape Coast
Plan a visit to Cape Coast, Ghana: the UNESCO castle and its Door of No Return, hilltop forts, Fosu Lagoon, Kakum's canopy walk and the Fetu Afahye festival.
Elmina
Plan a visit to Elmina in Ghana's Central Region: St. George's Castle, Fort St. Jago, the fishing harbour, the Java Museum and the Bakatue Festival.
Komenda
Plan a visit to Komenda in Ghana's Central Region: British and Dutch fort ruins, the Komenda Sea Cave, the beach and the town's market, with practical tips.
Senya Beraku
Plan a visit to Senya Beraku in Ghana's Central Region: the Dutch Fort Good Hope, a working fishing beach, the Akumase festival and how to get there.
Winneba
Plan a trip to Winneba in Ghana's Central Region: the Aboakyer bushbuck hunt, Fort Winneba, the Effutu sacred forest, Muni lagoon and the working beach.
Ashanti Region
Abono
Plan a visit to Abono on Lake Bosomtwe, Ghana's only true inland lake: crater-rim hikes, padua boat trips, canopy walks and Asante sacred tradition.
Bonwire
Plan a visit to Bonwire in Ghana's Ashanti Region — the historic home of kente weaving, with its Kente Museum, master weavers and annual Kente Festival.
Ejisu
Just outside Kumasi, Ejisu holds the last Asante shrine houses and the story of Yaa Asantewaa. Here's what to see, how to visit respectfully, and when to go.
Kumasi
Plan a trip to Kumasi, capital of Ghana's Ashanti Region: the Manhyia Palace Museum, Kejetia Market, the Okomfo Anokye sword and Akwasidae festival days.
Volta Region
Adidome
Adidome, capital of Central Tongu in Ghana's Volta Region, is a river town of Tuesday and Friday markets, gari, island communities and Tongu ancestral heritage.
Akatsi
Akatsi, capital of Akatsi South in Ghana's Volta Region, is a crossroads market town on the Accra–Aflao road, gateway to the Avu Lagoon sitatunga.
Amedzofe
Plan a trip to Amedzofe in Ghana's Volta Region — Mount Gemi's summit cross, Ote Falls, the sacred Dark Forest, Avatime culture and how to get there.
Anloga
Anloga in Ghana's Volta Region is the spiritual capital of the Anlo Ewe, set between the Keta Lagoon and the Atlantic. Here's what to see, do and know.
Ho
Plan a trip to Ho, capital of Ghana's Volta Region: the Volta Regional Museum, Ho Asigame market, Mount Adaklu and the Asogli Te Za yam festival.
Hohoe
Plan a trip to Hohoe in Ghana's Volta Region: the Wli Waterfalls walk, Tafi Atome's sacred monkeys, Likpe caves, markets and match days.
Keta
Plan a visit to Keta in Ghana's Volta Region: Fort Prinzenstein, the Keta Lagoon Ramsar Site, birdwatching, beaches and Anlo Ewe heritage.
Kpando
Plan a trip to Kpando in Ghana's Volta Region: Lake Volta boat trips at Torkor, the mountain zipline, women's pottery at Fesi and the five-day market.
Kpetoe
Plan a visit to Kpetoe in the Volta Region, Ghana: Ewe kente weavers at work, the Agbamevorza festival, village cloth shops and how to get there.
Liati Wote
Plan a trip to Liati Wote in Ghana's Volta Region: climb Mount Afadja, walk to Tagbo Falls, and see how this village runs its own ecotourism.
Sogakope
Plan a trip to Sogakope in Ghana's Volta Region: the Lower Volta Bridge, river cruises, the Easter Tortsogbeza festival and WAFA's football academy.
Tafi Atome
Plan a visit to Tafi Atome in Ghana's Volta Region: a community-run sacred grove where wild mona monkeys come down from the canopy to meet you.
Western Region
Akwidaa
Plan a trip to Akwidaa in Ghana's Western Region: Fort Dorothea ruins, Cape Three Points, mangrove canoe trips, turtle beaches and coastal rainforest.
Axim
Plan a trip to Axim in Ghana's Western Region: Fort St Anthony, Atlantic beaches, the Ankobra River, Bobowasi Island lighthouse and the Kundum festival.
Beyin
Plan a visit to Beyin in Ghana's Western Region: Fort Apollonia's Nzema museum, canoe trips to Nzulezo stilt village, sea turtles and the Amansuri wetland.
Butre
Plan a visit to Butre in Ghana's Western Region: Fort Batenstein, the Busua coastal hike, river canoe trips and quiet Coconut Beach on the Ahanta coast.
Dixcove
Plan a visit to Dixcove in Ghana's Western Region: Fort Metal Cross, the working fishing harbour, painted canoes and the Kundum festival on the Ahanta coast.
Prince's Town
Plan a visit to Prince's Town (Pokesu) in Ahanta West: Ghana's only German fort, a sacred mangrove lagoon, long Atlantic beach and community-run tours.
Shama
Plan a visit to Shama in Ghana's Western Region: the 1520s Fort San Sebastian, the Pra River estuary, Anlo Beach and the Cross in the Sea.
Takoradi
Plan a trip to Takoradi and Sekondi in Ghana's Western Region: Dutch forts, sacred crocodile ponds, forested hills, beaches and the best time to visit.
Eastern Region
Aburi
Cool hill air, a 1890 botanical garden, woodcarvers' stalls and forest waterfalls: how to spend a day or two in Aburi on Ghana's Akuapem Ridge.
Akim Oda
Akim Oda in Ghana's Eastern Region: the giant Big Tree, Akyem Kotoku royal history, cocoa country and a market that hums on Mondays and Thursdays.
Akosombo
Plan a trip to Akosombo in Ghana's Eastern Region: the Akosombo Dam, Lake Volta cruises to Dodi Island, the Adomi Bridge, markets and the VRA Museum.
Atibie
Plan a trip to Atibie on Ghana's Kwahu escarpment: Odweanoma paragliding, Asubone Waterfall, palace history and the Easter festival.
Atimpoku
Plan a trip to Atimpoku in Ghana's Asuogyaman District: walk the Adomi Bridge over the Volta, cruise to Dodi Island, and shop the abolo market.
Bunso
Plan a trip to Bunso in Ghana's Eastern Region: the Bunso Eco Park canopy walkway, forest trails, cocoa tours and the highway rest stop at Bunso junction.
Koforidua
Koforidua, capital of Ghana's Eastern Region, is a calm hill town of bead traders and cocoa history, with Boti Falls and Umbrella Rock a short drive away.
New Tafo
Plan a visit to New Tafo in Abuakwa North, Eastern Region: CRIG cocoa tours, a 1940s golf course, Awansa Palace and the Ohum Festival.
Northern Region
Savannah Region
Daboya
Plan a visit to Daboya in Ghana's Savannah Region: fugu smock weaving, indigo dye pits, salt ponds and boat trips on the White Volta.
Larabanga
Plan a visit to Larabanga in Ghana's Savannah Region: the ancient adobe mosque, the Mystic Stone, Mognori Eco Village and the gateway to Mole National Park.
Salaga
Plan a visit to Salaga in Ghana's Savannah Region: the slave market heritage site, ancient wells, the baobab and the town's kola-trade story.
Upper East Region
Bolgatanga
Plan a trip to Bolgatanga, capital of Ghana's Upper East Region — handwoven Bolga baskets, the craft village, the regional museum and market days.
Navrongo
Navrongo in Ghana's Upper East: a mud-brick basilica painted by Sirigu women, a stone grotto, a three-day market cycle and the January Fao harvest festival.
Paga
Plan a visit to Paga in Ghana's Upper East: the sacred crocodile pond, Pikworo Slave Camp, the chief's palace and the Burkina Faso border market.
Sirigu
Plan a visit to Sirigu in Ghana's Upper East Region: hand-painted Kassena compound walls, SWOPA craft workshops, the chief's palace and the Azuko Festival.
Tongo
Plan a visit to Tongo in Ghana's Upper East Region: the Tongo Hills, Tengzug Shrine, Whistling Rocks, Cave School and Talensi festivals, with practical tips.
Upper West Region
Gwollu
Plan a visit to Gwollu in Ghana's Upper West: the 19th-century slave defence wall, the chief's palace, Hilla Limann's tomb and the sacred crocodile pond.
Wechiau
Plan a trip to Wechiau in Ghana's Upper West Region: canoe safaris on the Black Volta, wild hippos, Lobi villages and a restored earthen mosque.
Oti Region
Dambai
Dambai, capital of Ghana's Oti Region, is a working river town of ferries, yam markets and Oti River crossings. Here's what to see, do and plan.
Nkwanta
Plan a trip to Nkwanta in Ghana's Oti Region: Kyabobo National Park hikes, Laboum waterfall, the Akyode shrine and Nkwanta's Monday yam market.
Bono East Region
Kintampo
Plan a trip to Kintampo in Bono East, Ghana: the Pumpum River waterfalls, a canopy walkway over the valley, Fuller Falls and the Centre of Ghana monument.
Techiman
Plan a trip to Techiman in Ghana's Bono East Region: the Tano Boase Sacred Grove, Our Lady of Calvary Grotto, Bono Manso Waterfalls and the Apoo Festival.
Bono Region
Western North Region