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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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

Attraction · Cape Coast

Kakum National Park

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.

Photo: MooseHypezGh · Source

Attraction · Teshie

Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop

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.

Photo: D-Stanley · Source

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.

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

Hotel · Dzelukope

Keta Beach Hotel

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.

Photo: michael pollak · Source

Beach · Keta

Keta Emancipation Beach

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.

Photo: Forgive Kwashie Agboada · Source

Attraction · Keta

Keta Lagoon

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

Kintampo Canopy Walkway

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.

Photo: Knowledge and philosophy · Source

Waterfall · Kintampo

Kintampo Waterfalls

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.

Photo: Nkansahrexford · Source

Attraction · Koforidua

Koforidua Beads Market

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.

Photo: Warmglow · Source

Beach · Komenda

Komenda Beach

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

Komenda Sea Cave

A small natural sandstone sea cave on the coast west of Komenda town, reached by stairs from the Komenda College premises.

Photo: Skiet3n469 · Source

Attraction · Kpando

Kpando-Torkor Fish Market and Fisheries Complex

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.

Photo: Miss. Crampah · Source

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.

Photo: Noahalorwu · Source

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.

Photo: Oheneba ghana · Source

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

Attraction · Nkwanta

Kyabobo National Park

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

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

Resort · Teshie

Laboma Beach Resort

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

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

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.

Photo: Alexandre Ultré · Source

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.

Photo: Alexandre Ultré · Source

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.

Photo: Alexandre Ultré · Source

Attraction · Dambai

Lake Volta Boat Ride Experience

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

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