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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.

Photo: Nardi Boobo · Source

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.

Photo: wrcomms · Source

Attraction · Abono

Lake Bosomtwe

Lake Bosomtwe is Ghana's only true inland natural lake, set in a million-year-old meteorite crater about 30 km south-east of Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region.

Photo: Noahalorwu · Source

Attraction · Larabanga

Larabanga Mosque

A Sudano-Sahelian adobe mosque in Larabanga, Savannah Region, described by Ghana's tourism authority as thought to be the oldest mosque in Ghana and West Africa.

Photo: Stig Nygaard · Source

Attraction · Larabanga

Larabanga Mystic Stone

A sacred rock formation on the outskirts of Larabanga, near the Larabanga Mosque, conserved and guided as a community tourist site in Ghana's Savannah Region.

Photo: Haruna Mohammed · Source

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.

Photo: Sunkanmi12 · Source

Attraction · Sogakope

Lower Volta Bridge

The Lower Volta Bridge (Sogakope Bridge) is a 650-metre N1 highway crossing over the Volta River between Sogakope and Sokpoe, and the setting of the Easter Tortsogbeza festival.

Photo: Celestinesucess · Source

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.

Photo: Benggriff · Source

Attraction · Kumasi

Manhyia Palace Museum

A historical museum in Kumasi's Manhyia Palace complex, housed in the old palace built in 1925 and opened as a museum in 1995.

Photo: Dan Sloan · Source

Attraction · Larabanga

Mole Museum

A two-room museum inside Mole National Park's Information Centre, with a main exposition room and a multimedia room on the park's biodiversity and ecology.

Photo: Matti Blume · Source

Attraction · Larabanga

Mole National Park

Ghana's first and largest national park: about 4,577 km² of Guinea savannah in the Savannah Region, managed by the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission.

Photo: Alhassan Mohammed Awal · Source

Attraction · Amedzofe

Mount Gemi

Mount Gemi is the peak above Amedzofe in Ghana's Volta Region, climbed for its summit cross and wide views over the surrounding hills.

Photo: Daniel Oladapo · Source

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.

Photo: Yanajin33 · Source

Attraction · Nzulezo

Nzulezo Stilt Village

Nzulezo is Ghana's only stilt village, reached by guided canoe through the Amanzule wetlands from Beyin in the Western Region.

Photo: Luke Bosman · Source

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.

Photo: Danieljatuat · Source

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.

Photo: Celestinesucess · Source

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.

Photo: Xibitgh · Source

Attraction · Tamale

Red Clay Studio

Red Clay Studio is an open art studio, education campus and exhibition complex founded by Ibrahim Mahama near Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana.

Photo: Christian Yakubu · Source

Attraction · Salaga

Salaga slave wells

A heritage site in Salaga, Savannah Region, marking the town's role as one of West Africa's largest slave markets, with slave wells, statues and a museum.

Photo: Cdilalo47 · Source

Attraction · Tafi Abuife

Tafi Abuife Kente Weaving Village

Tafi Abuife is a small Ewe kente-weaving community in Afadzato South District, Volta Region, where visitors can watch weavers at work and buy cloth directly.

Photo: Warmglow · Source

Attraction · Tafi Atome

Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary

A community-run sacred grove in Tafi Atome, Volta Region, protecting mona and patas monkeys that villagers have long regarded as sacred messengers of the gods.

Photo: Selorm18 · Source

Waterfall · Liati Wote

Tagbo Falls

Tagbo Falls is a multi-stage waterfall on the Tagbo River at Liati Wote in Ghana's Volta Region, reached by a 45-minute to one-hour walk from the village.

Photo: Kradolferp · Source

Attraction · Takoradi

Takoradi Harbour

Takoradi Harbour is Ghana's oldest seaport, a secured working industrial port in Sekondi-Takoradi commissioned in 1928, with restricted public access.

Photo: Kees Torn · Source

Attraction · Aprokumase

The Big Tree

The Big Tree is a giant Bako (Tieghemella heckelii) tree in the Esen Apam Forest Reserve near Akim Oda, Eastern Region, Ghana, reputed to be West Africa's biggest accessible tree.

Photo: SAgbley · Source