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Attraction · Paga

Paga Crocodile Pond

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.

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Attraction · Tongo

Tengzug Shrine

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.

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Attraction · Paga

Pikworo Slave Camp

Pikworo Slave Camp is a rock-cut heritage site at Paga Nania, about 3 km west of Paga in Ghana's Upper East Region, active as a slave-trade transit camp from 1704 to 1845.

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Attraction · Tongo

Tongo Chief's Palace

The royal court of the Paramount Chief of the Talensi Traditional Area, and a stop on the official Tongo-Tengzuk Cultural Landscape tour in Ghana's Upper East Region.

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Attraction · Tongo

Tongo Hills

A granite hill range near Tongo in Ghana's Upper East Region, known for balancing rock formations, caves and sacred Talensi ancestral shrines.

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Attraction · Bolgatanga

Upper East Regional Museum

An ethnographic museum in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, preserving the material culture of the region since 1972 and housed at its current site since 1991.

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Attraction · Bolgatanga

Bolgatanga Market

Bolgatanga Market is the large central market of Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, held every three days and known for crafts including baskets, leather goods and smocks.

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Attraction · Sirigu

Sirigu Women's Organisation for Pottery and Art

SWOPA is a community-based women's craft organisation in Sirigu, Upper East Region, founded in 1997, with a visitor centre, gallery, workshop and guesthouse.

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Attraction · Tengzuk

Tongo-Tengzuk Cultural Landscape and Sacred Shrines

A Talensi cultural landscape of balancing rock formations and sacred ancestral shrines at the base of a horseshoe-shaped hill chain near Tongo, Upper East Region.

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Attraction · Navrongo

Navrongo Basilica Museum

A small museum attached to the Old Navrongo Catholic Cathedral, a mud-brick national monument in Ghana's Upper East Region.

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Attraction · Navrongo

Navrongo Minor Basilica

A mud-brick Roman Catholic cathedral and minor basilica in Navrongo, listed by the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board as the last of its kind in Ghana.

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Attraction · Navrongo

Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto, Navrongo

A stone shrine with an altar and a statue of the Madonna, built by Father Robert in 1933–34 at the White Fathers' Mission in Navrongo, Upper East Region.

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Attraction · Tongo

Tenzug Cave School

Tenzug Cave School is a historic rock-overhang school site in the Tongo Hills near Tongo, Talensi District, Upper East Region, where formal education began between 1965 and 1985.

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Attraction · Bolgatanga

Baba Tree Basket Company

A design-led basket-weaving company and artisan community in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, producing handwoven Bolga baskets, lampshades and wall pieces from elephant grass.

Attraction · Bolgatanga

Bolgatanga Craft Village

A craft market and artisan centre in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, built by the municipal assembly in 2003 and adjacent to the Upper East Regional Museum.

Attraction · Bolgatanga

Bolgatanga Naba's Palace

The traditional seat and administrative centre of the paramount chief of the Bolgatanga Traditional Area, in the Atulibabisi community, Upper East Region, Ghana.

Attraction · Sirigu

Martyrs of Uganda Parish Church, Sirigu

Catholic parish church at Sirigu in Ghana's Upper East Region, known for church walls decorated by local women with traditional mural designs and for Gurune-language hymn singing.

Attraction · Navrongo

Navrongo Central Market

Navrongo Central Market is the main trading hub of Navrongo, the Kassena-Nankana Municipal District capital in Ghana's Upper East Region, operating on a three-day market cycle.

Attraction · Navrongo

Navrongo Palace

The Navrongo Palace is the working traditional seat of the Navro-Pio, Paramount Chief of the Navrongo Traditional Area, and a ceremonial venue in Ghana's Upper East Region.

Attraction · Paga

Paga Border Market

Paga Border Market is the working cross-border market at Paga on the Ghana–Burkina Faso frontier, a daily informal trade hub in the Kassena Nankana West District.

Attraction · Paga

Paga Pia Palace

Paga Pia Palace is the chief's compound in Paga, Upper East Region, seat of the Paga Pio and a living Kassena extended-family compound with decorated mud walls.

Attraction · Sirigu

Sirigu Chief's Palace

The Azukodaana Palace in Sirigu, Upper East Region, is the seat of the Paramount Chief of the Sirigu Traditional Area and the launch venue for the annual Azuko Festival.

Attraction · Sirigu

Sirigu Craft Village / SWOPA

SWOPA is a women's craft cooperative and community tourism centre in Sirigu, Upper East Region, with a visitor centre, gallery, workshop and guesthouse.

Attraction · Sirigu

Sirigu Painted Houses

Sirigu, in Ghana's Upper East Region near Bolgatanga, is known for geometric murals painted by Kassena-Nankani women on the mud walls of inhabited family compounds.