Explore Ghana

Beach · Ada Foah

Ada Foah Beach

Palm-lined beach and estuary at Ada Foah, about 120 km from Accra, where the Volta River meets the Atlantic Ocean.

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Attraction · Teshie

Fort Augustaborg

Fort Augustaborg (Fort Teshie) is a ruined 1787 Danish fort in Teshie, Greater Accra, listed among Ghana's UNESCO-inscribed coastal forts and castles.

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Attraction · Old Ningo

Fort Fredensborg

Fort Fredensborg is a ruined 1734 Danish-Norwegian slave-trading fort at Old Ningo on Ghana's Gulf of Guinea coast, part of a UNESCO World Heritage serial property.

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Attraction · Accra

Independence Square

Independence Square, or Black Star Square, is Accra's national monument square in Osu, home to the Independence Arch, the Black Star Gate and the Memorial of the Unknown Soldier.

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Attraction · Accra

James Fort

James Fort is a 17th-century British fort in Jamestown, Accra, built in 1673, later a prison and now a GMMB-managed heritage site that is currently listed as temporarily closed.

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Attraction · Accra

Jamestown Lighthouse

Jamestown Lighthouse is a 28 m red-and-white banded tower in Jamestown, Accra, built in 1932 to replace an 1871 lighthouse, with 112 steps to summit views.

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Attraction · Accra

Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park

Accra's memorial park and mausoleum honouring Ghana's first President, Kwame Nkrumah, and his wife Fathia, on the Old Polo Grounds.

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Beach · Accra

Labadi Beach

Labadi Beach (La Pleasure Beach) is Accra's busiest beach, in the town of La near Teshie, known for weekend music, drumming and dancing, with an entrance fee for non-hotel guests.

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Attraction · Legon

Legon Botanical Gardens

A botanical garden and outdoor recreation park on the University of Ghana campus at Legon, with playgrounds, ropes courses, a canopy walkway and canoeing.

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Attraction · Accra

Makola Market

Makola Market is Accra's largest and most famous open-air market, a 1924 trading district in the city's Central Business District on Kojo Thompson Road.

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Attraction · Accra

National Museum of Ghana

Ghana's national museum on Barnes Road in Adabraka, Accra, opened in 1957 and run by the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.

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Attraction · Accra

Osu Castle

Osu Castle (Christiansborg) is a 17th-century fort at Osu, Accra, run by the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board and part of a UNESCO World Heritage listing.

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Beach · Prampram

Prampram Beach

Prampram Beach is the Atlantic-facing beachfront of Prampram (Gbugbla), the Ningo-Prampram District capital in Greater Accra, about 15 km east of Tema.

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Attraction · Accra

Ussher Fort

Ussher Fort is a 17th-century Dutch-built fort in James Town, Accra, now home to the Ussher Fort Museum on the history of the slave trade in Ghana.

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Attraction · Doryumu

Shai Hills Resource Reserve

Shai Hills Resource Reserve is a Forestry Commission–managed wildlife reserve of savannah and granite hills about 50 km from Accra, known for baboons, caves and hiking trails.

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Attraction · Teshie

Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop

A working carpentry studio in Teshie, Accra, where Ga craftspeople make design coffins — abebuu adekai, "boxes with proverbs" — and welcome visitors to watch the work.

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Attraction · Accra

W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture

Memorial, museum and research centre in Cantonments, Accra, occupying the former home of W.E.B. Du Bois, with his mausoleum, library and archives.

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Beach · Teshie

Teshie Beach

Teshie Beach is an Atlantic shoreline at Teshie, the administrative capital of Ledzokuku Municipal District in Ghana's Greater Accra Region.

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Attraction · Teshie

Teshie fantasy coffin workshops

Working carpentry studios in Teshie, Accra, where Ga carpenters hand-carve figurative "design coffins" for funerals and export.

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Waterfall · Dodowa

Tsenku (Chenku) Waterfall

Tsenku (Chenku) Waterfall, also called Wuruduwurudu Falls, is a seasonal two-level waterfall in the Dodowa Forest, Shai-Osudoku District, about 39 km from Accra.

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Attraction · Ada Foah

Volta River Estuary

The Volta River Estuary at Ada Foah is where the Volta River, draining Lake Volta, meets the Atlantic Ocean on Ghana's southeast coast.

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Resort · Teshie

Laboma Beach Resort

Laboma Beach Resort is a beachfront resort and beach club on the Atlantic coast at Teshie, Greater Accra, off the La-Teshie Road.

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Attraction · Accra

Accra Arts Centre

The Accra Arts Centre (Centre for National Culture) is Ghana's largest arts and crafts marketplace, in central Accra off Atta Mills High Street, with free entry.

Attraction · Ada Foah

Ada Foah Presbyterian Church and Missionary Cemetery

A missionary church in Ada Foah, described as built by the first generation of Ghanaian Christians around 1890, with an adjoining cemetery of colonial-era and later graves.