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Attraction · Adanwomase

Adanwomase Kente Village

Adanwomase is a kente-weaving town in Kwabre East District, Ashanti Region, about 27 km northeast of Kumasi, with a Visitor Centre, community workshop and mini kente museum.

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Attraction · Bonwire

Bonwire Kente Museum

A museum and craft centre in Bonwire, the historic Kente-weaving town in the Ejisu Municipality of Ghana's Ashanti Region, about 18 km from Kumasi.

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Attraction · Kumasi

Centre for National Culture, Kumasi

A government-supported cultural centre in Kumasi, established in 1956, with Asante craft workshops, a gallery, a crafts shop and the Prempeh II Jubilee Museum.

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Attraction · Kumasi

Kejetia Market

Kejetia Market, also known as Kumasi Central Market, is a vast multi-level market in central Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana, trading Monday to Saturday.

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Attraction · Kumasi

Kumasi Fort and Military Museum

A fort and military museum in Kumasi's Uaddara Barracks, tracing the Anglo-Asante wars and the Gold Coast Regiment's evolution into the Ghana Armed Forces.

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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.

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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.

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Attraction · Kumasi

Kumasi Zoo

Kumasi Zoo is a long-established city-centre zoological garden in central Kumasi, Ashanti Region, managed by Ghana's Wildlife Division.

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Attraction · Ejisu

Yaa Asantewaa Museum

A museum in Ejisu, Ashanti Region, honouring Yaa Asantewaa, Queen Mother of Ejisu and leader of Ashanti resistance in the 1900–1901 War of the Golden Stool.

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Attraction · Abono

Lake Bosomtwe Boat Trips

Boat trips from the Abono shoreline on Lake Bosomtwe, Ghana's only true inland lake, using the traditional flat wooden padua rather than dugout canoes.

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Attraction · Kumasi

Okomfo Anokye Sword Site

A sacred Asante landmark on the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital grounds in Kumasi, centred on a sword tradition holds was planted by Okomfo Anokye.

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Attraction · Bonwire

Bonwire Kente Weaving Centre

Bonwire Kente Weaving Centre is the visitor hub for kente weaving in Bonwire, Ashanti Region, where tours, weaving demonstrations and village craft shops are based.

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Attraction · Abono

Lake Bosomtwe Crater Rim Trail

A forested hiking route on the crater rim above Lake Bosomtwe, Ghana's only natural inland lake, starting near Abono about 30 km south-east of Kumasi.

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Attraction · Abono

Lake Bosomtwe Information Centre

Community information centre at Abono, the main shoreline settlement and entry point to Lake Bosomtwe, Ghana's only true inland lake, set in a meteorite impact crater.

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Attraction · Ejisu

Asante Traditional Buildings

A UNESCO World Heritage Site of ten surviving Asante shrine houses in villages near Kumasi, decorated with bas-relief and Adinkra-linked designs.

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Attraction · Ejisu

Besease Traditional Building

The Besease Traditional Building, or Yaw Tano Shrine, is one of the ten surviving Asante Traditional Buildings within Ghana's 1980 UNESCO World Heritage property.

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Attraction · Besease Ejisu

Ejisu Besease Shrine

Traditional Asante shrine house at Ejisu Besease, Ashanti Region, one of the ten UNESCO-listed Asante Traditional Buildings and the listing's main visitor site.

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Attraction · Ntonso

Ntonso Adinkra Craft Village

Ntonso Adinkra Craft Village in Kwabre East, Ashanti Region, is Ghana's best-known centre for hand-printed adinkra cloth, with guided tours of dyeing, stamping and embroidery.

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Attraction · Ntonso

Ntonso Adinkra Village

A craft centre in Ntonso, Kwabre East District, Ashanti Region, about 15 km north of Kumasi, where guided tours cover adinkra dyeing, stamping and embroidery.

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Attraction · Ahwiaa

Ahwiaa Wood Carving Village

Ahwiaa in Ghana's Kwabre East District is the traditional centre of Asante wood carving, about nine kilometres from Kumasi, where visitors can watch carvers and buy crafts.

Attraction · Antoa

Antoa Nyamaa Shrine

Antoa Nyamaa is a river deity and shrine in Antoa, Kwabre East, Ashanti Region, about seven miles from Kumasi, reached by a farm path to the Asuo Nyamaa stream.

Waterfall · Anyinasu

Anyinasu Waterfall

Anyinasu Waterfall is a year-round cascading waterfall at Awabre, a suburb of Anyinasu in the Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipality, Ashanti Region, Ghana.

Attraction · Kubease

Bobiri Forest Reserve and Butterfly Sanctuary

A 54.65 km² semi-deciduous rainforest reserve and butterfly sanctuary at Kubease in Ghana's Ashanti Region, about 35 km southeast of Kumasi, managed by CSIR-FORIG.

Attraction · Bonwire

Bonwire Kente Weaving Village

Bonwire, about 18 km along the Kumasi–Mampong road in Ghana's Ashanti Region, is the historic home of kente weaving and a working centre of Asante textile tradition.