
Attraction · Accra
Jamestown Lighthouse
Jamestown Lighthouse is a 28 m red-and-white banded tower in Jamestown, Accra, built in 1932 to replace an 1871 lighthouse, with 112 steps to summit views.
Photo: Dan Sloan · Source

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Attraction · Accra
Jamestown Lighthouse is a 28 m red-and-white banded tower in Jamestown, Accra, built in 1932 to replace an 1871 lighthouse, with 112 steps to summit views.
Photo: Dan Sloan · Source

Attraction · Cape Coast
Kakum National Park is a 375 sq km protected forest near Abrafo in Ghana's Central Region, about 33 km north of Cape Coast, best known for its canopy walkway.
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Attraction · Teshie
A working carpentry studio in Teshie, Accra, where Ga craftspeople make design coffins — abebuu adekai, "boxes with proverbs" — and welcome visitors to watch the work.
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Attraction · Kumasi
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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Hotel · Dzelukope
Keta Beach Hotel is a hotel listed at Dzelukope in the Keta Municipal District, Volta Region, with a documented swimming pool and no verified operator website, rates, or hours.
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Beach · Keta
Emancipation Beach is a Gulf of Guinea beach behind Fort Prinzenstein at Keta, Volta Region, formerly used for Emancipation Day commemorations and now run as a beach resort.
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Attraction · Keta
Keta Lagoon is Ghana's largest lagoon and the core of the Keta Lagoon Complex Ramsar Site, a brackish coastal wetland in the Volta Region known for bird watching.
Photo: Akiwumi · Source

Attraction · Kintampo
A suspended canopy walkway over a valley at the Kintampo Waterfalls site in Bono East, inaugurated in April 2019 and described as Ghana's second canopy walk after Kakum.
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Waterfall · Kintampo
Kintampo Waterfalls is a three-drop waterfall on the Pumpum River in Bono East, about 4 km north of Kintampo on the Kumasi–Tamale road.
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Attraction · Koforidua
A weekly Thursday beads and crafts market in Koforidua's Gallaway neighbourhood, beside Jubilee Park, described by the local assembly as one of Africa's largest bead markets.
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Beach · Komenda
Komenda Beach is a Gulf of Guinea beach in Ghana's Central Region, best known for the tunnel-like Komenda Sea Cave a few metres from Komenda College of Education.
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Attraction · Komenda
A small natural sandstone sea cave on the coast west of Komenda town, reached by stairs from the Komenda College premises.
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Attraction · Kpando
A working fish market on the Lake Volta shore at Kpando-Torkor, a fishing community and ferry port in Ghana's Volta Region, set within a fisheries complex.
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Attraction · Kumasi
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.
Photo: Noahalorwu · Source

Attraction · Kumasi
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 · Accra
Accra's memorial park and mausoleum honouring Ghana's first President, Kwame Nkrumah, and his wife Fathia, on the Old Polo Grounds.
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Attraction · Nkwanta
A mountainous national park in Ghana's Oti Region, on the Togo border, with forest-savanna habitats, waterfalls and hiking and mountain-biking trails.
Photo: Tahiru Rajab · Source

Beach · Accra
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.
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Resort · Teshie
Laboma Beach Resort is a beachfront resort and beach club on the Atlantic coast at Teshie, Greater Accra, off the La-Teshie Road.
Photo: Ghassan Mroue · Source

Attraction · Abono
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 · Abono
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.
Photo: Alexandre Ultré · Source

Attraction · Abono
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.
Photo: Alexandre Ultré · Source

Attraction · Abono
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.
Photo: Alexandre Ultré · Source

Attraction · Dambai
The Dambai lakefront and ferry point on the Oti River arm of Lake Volta, where a working river crossing doubles as a scenic boat and canoe experience.
Photo: INUSAH GANIYU · Source