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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Attraction · Larabanga

Mognori Eco Village

A community-run eco-village on the edge of Mole National Park near Larabanga, offering guided village tours, canoe safaris and cultural performances.

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Attraction · Daboya

White Volta at Daboya

The stretch of the White Volta (Nakambe) flowing past Daboya in the Savannah Region, known for village-paddled boat trips, birdlife and salt-harvesting beaches.

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Attraction · Salaga

Salaga Central Mosque

Salaga Central Mosque is the active Sunni central mosque of Salaga, in the historic Zongo quarter of East Gonja Municipal District, Savannah Region.

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Attraction · Salaga

Salaga Slave Market site

An 18th-century slave market and heritage site in Salaga, Savannah Region, commissioned in July 2024, with an information office, slave wells and statues.

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Attraction · Salaga

Salaga Slave Tree

A replacement baobab at the site of the former Salaga slave market, where enslaved people were reportedly chained and displayed for sale.

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Attraction · Daboya

Daboya Indigo Dye Pits

Traditional indigo-dyeing site in Daboya, Savannah Region, Ghana, where resist-wrapped cotton yarn is dyed in open-air vats and woven into fugu smocks.

Attraction · Daboya

Daboya Salt Ponds

Traditional salt-making grounds on the White Volta floodplain at Daboya, Savannah Region, where saline soil is scraped, filtered and sun-dried into salt.

Attraction · Daboya

Daboya smock weaving community

Daboya, capital of North Gonja District in the Savannah Region, is described by Visit Ghana as Ghana's most famous fugu (smock) weaving community.

Waterfall · Larabanga

Kparia Waterfalls

Kparia Waterfalls is a roughly 20-metre, two-segment waterfall on the Kparia river inside Mole National Park, reached by a two-day, 4x4 tour from the park Information Centre.

Attraction · Kpembe

Kpembe Wura's Palace

The working traditional palace and governance seat of the Kpembewura, Paramount Chief of the Kpembe Traditional Area, in Kpembe near Salaga, Savannah Region.

Attraction · Kulmasa

Kulmasa Crocodile Pond

A crocodile pond beside Kulmasa in Ghana's Savannah Region, listed by Visit Ghana and identified in a government framework as a cultural resource.

Attraction · Damongo

Ndewura Jakpa Palace

Ndewura Jakpa Palace in downtown Damongo is the traditional seat of the Yagbonwura, Overlord of the Gonja Kingdom, and a heritage site open to guided visits.

Waterfall · Larabanga

Polzen Waterfalls

Polzen Waterfalls is one of two waterfalls in Mole National Park, Savannah Region, reached by a long, remotely accessed park-organised trip.

Attraction · Salaga

Salaga Slave Cemetery

A mass grave and burial ground in Salaga, Savannah Region, for enslaved people who died during captivity or transport through the Salaga slave market.

Attraction · Daboya

White Volta River boat tours at Daboya

Hand-made, villager-paddled boat tours on the White Volta beside Daboya, with birdlife, a hand-thrown net fishing demonstration and a salt-harvesting beach.

Attraction · Salaga

Wonkan Bawa

Wonkan Bawa is a pond and stream site in Salaga, Savannah Region, remembered as the bathing place where enslaved people were cleansed before sale at the Salaga slave market.