Cape Coast Castle courtyard and cannons overlooking the Atlantic

Explore Ghana

Ghana

Cape Coast Castle · Photo: Rjruiziii · License: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Ghana brings together coastal cities, inland communities and places to explore across sixteen regions. Start with the reviewed destination guides and build a trip around the places that interest you.

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Where to go

Destinations

Greater AccraCentralAshantiVoltaWesternEasternNorthernSavannahUpper EastUpper WestOtiBono EastBonoWestern North

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Places to explore

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.

Photo: Sucram Yef · Source

Waterfall · Adukrom

Asenema Waterfalls

A seasonal rainforest waterfall in the Akuapem Hills of Okere District, Eastern Region, reached by a short marked walk from the main road.

Photo: Robertjamal12 · Source

Beach · Axim

Axim Beach

Axim Beach is the shoreline and beachfront-resort area of Axim, a coastal town and capital of Nzema East Municipal District in Ghana's Western Region.

Photo: Jeremy Weate · Source

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.

Photo: Sucram Yef · Source

Attraction · Sefwi Wiawso

Bia National Park

Bia National Park is the 77.7 km2 northern half of the Bia Conservation Area in Western North, Ghana, a forest reserve known for primates, forest elephants and guided walks.

Photo: AmarAfshin · Source

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.

Photo: Adam Jones, Ph.D. - Global Photo Archive · Source

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.

Photo: Stephen Acheampong · Source

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.

Photo: Mwintirew · Source

Waterfall · Opersika

Boti Falls

Boti Falls is a seasonal twin waterfall in the forest of Huhunya, Yilo Krobo Municipality, about 17 km northeast of Koforidua in Ghana's Eastern Region.

Photo: Febelix · Source

Resort · Kpandai

BowMarie Resort

BowMarie Resort is a sixteen-room hospitality property off the Kete-Krachi Road near Kpandai, Northern Region, with conference, banquet, restaurant and bar facilities.

Photo: Inonotus · Source

Attraction · Odomi

Breast Mountain

The Breast Mountains are two adjacent hills inside Kyabobo National Park whose silhouette resembles a woman's breasts; the summit viewpoint on the left hill is known as 'Nipple ...

Photo: Kradolferp · Source

Beach · Brenu Akyinim

Brenu Beach

Brenu Beach at Brenu Akyinim in Ghana's Central Region is a community-owned beach resort about 20 km from Cape Coast, near Elmina Castle and Kakum Rainforest.

Photo: Rebecamarta · Source

Attraction · Bunso

Bunso Eco Park

Bunso Eco Park, formerly the Bunso Arboretum, is a forested ecotourism park and botanical garden at Bunso in Ghana's Eastern Region.

Photo: Roland Darko · Source

Beach · Busua

Busua Beach

Sandy Atlantic beach at Busua in Ghana's Western Region, known as the country's leading surf destination, with surf schools on the sand.

Photo: Adam Jones, Ph.D. - Global Photo Archive · Source

Resort · Busua

Busua Beach Resort

Beachfront resort on Busua Beach, a curved bay of nearly 2.4 km of golden sand about 30 km west of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana's Western Region.

Photo: Mac-Jordan Degadjor · Source

Attraction · Butre

Busua–Butre Coastal Hike & Butre Hills Viewpoint

An informal coastal footpath linking Busua and Butre in Ghana's Western Region, climbing laterite headlands above the Atlantic to Fort Batenstein and the Butre river mouth.

Photo: aripeskoe2 · Source

Beach · Butre

Butre Beach

Butre Beach, also called Coconut Beach, is the narrow palm-fringed beach at the fishing village of Butre in Ghana's Western Region, where the Butre River meets the Atlantic.

Photo: benketaro · Source

Attraction · Cape Coast

Cape Coast Castle

A coastal castle and museum confronting the history of the transatlantic slave trade.

Photo: Rjruiziii · Source

Beach · Cape Coast

Cape Coast Castle Beach

Cape Coast Castle Beach is the open-access shoreline directly below Cape Coast Castle, a working fishing beach with dangerous surf and no documented visitor amenities.

Photo: Adam Jones · Source

Attraction · Cape Coast

Cape Coast Castle Museum

An ethnography and archaeological museum in a wing of Cape Coast Castle, with exhibits on the transatlantic slave trade and Central Region history.

Photo: tootoo22 · Source

Attraction · Akwidaa

Cape Three Points

Cape Three Points is Ghana's southernmost tip, a fishing village and peninsula in the Western Region known for its 1875 and 1925 lighthouses.

Photo: Friedmut Abel · Source

Attraction · Akwidaa

Cape Three Points Lighthouse

Cape Three Points is Ghana's southernmost tip, a fishing village and peninsula in Ahanta West known for its 1875 lighthouse ruin and working 1925 tower.

Photo: Friedmut Abel · Source

Attraction · Wa

Cathedral of Saint Andrew

St. Andrew's Cathedral is the Roman-Rite cathedral of the Diocese of Wa, an active place of worship in Wa, Upper West Region, Ghana.

Photo: KUUBO EMMANUEL · Source

Attraction · Koforidua

Centre for National Culture, Eastern Region

The Eastern Regional office of Ghana's National Commission on Culture in Koforidua, with a craftshop, traditional training school and a reported 1,500-seat theatre.

Photo: Jude Hammond · Source

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