Ghana

Cape Coast Castle courtyard and cannons overlooking the Atlantic — 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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Before you go

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Where to go

Destinations

Greater Accra Central Ashanti Volta Western Eastern Northern Savannah Upper East Upper West Oti Bono East Bono Western North

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Places to explore

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.

Photo: Stig Nygaard · Source

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.

Photo: Haruna Mohammed · Source

Attraction · Legon

Legon Botanical Gardens

A botanical garden and outdoor recreation park on the University of Ghana campus at Legon, with playgrounds, ropes courses, a canopy walkway and canoeing.

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Attraction · Bunso

Linda Dor Rest Stop

Linda Dor Rest Stop (Bunso Junction) is a long-established restaurant, hotel and 24-hour highway rest stop at Bunso junction on the Accra–Kumasi highway in the Eastern Region.

Photo: Harunaamadu95 · Source

Attraction · Sogakope

Lower Volta Bridge

The Lower Volta Bridge (Sogakope Bridge) is a 650-metre N1 highway crossing over the Volta River between Sogakope and Sokpoe, and the setting of the Easter Tortsogbeza festival.

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Attraction · Accra

Makola Market

Makola Market is Accra's largest and most famous open-air market, a 1924 trading district in the city's Central Business District on Kojo Thompson Road.

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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.

Photo: Dan Sloan · Source

Attraction · Takoradi

Market Circle, Takoradi

Takoradi Market Circle is a long-established market in Takoradi, Western Region, whose 2020 redevelopment has been stalled since early 2023.

Photo: Canny Kay · Source

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 · 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.

Photo: Alhassan Mohammed Awal · Source

Attraction · Liati Wote

Mount Afadja

Mount Afadja (Afadjato) is an 885 m peak in the Agumatsa Range near Liati Wote, Volta Region, climbed on a guided 3 km summit trail of about 1.5 to 2 hours.

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Attraction · Amedzofe

Mount Gemi

Mount Gemi is the peak above Amedzofe in Ghana's Volta Region, climbed for its summit cross and wide views over the surrounding hills.

Photo: Daniel Oladapo · Source

Attraction · Nakore

Nakore Mosque

Nakore Mosque is a small historic Sudano-Sahelian mud mosque in Nakore village, southwest of Wa in Ghana's Upper West Region, still active for Friday prayers.

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Attraction · Accra

National Museum of Ghana

Ghana's national museum on Barnes Road in Adabraka, Accra, opened in 1957 and run by the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.

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Attraction · Navrongo

Navrongo Basilica Museum

A small museum attached to the Old Navrongo Catholic Cathedral, a mud-brick national monument in Ghana's Upper East Region.

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Attraction · Navrongo

Navrongo Minor Basilica

A mud-brick Roman Catholic cathedral and minor basilica in Navrongo, listed by the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board as the last of its kind in Ghana.

Photo: Sucram Yef · Source

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.

Photo: ZSM · Source

Attraction · Nzulezo

Nzulezo Stilt Village

Nzulezo is Ghana's only stilt village, reached by guided canoe through the Amanzule wetlands from Beyin in the Western Region.

Photo: Luke Bosman · Source

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 · Accra

Osu Castle

Osu Castle (Christiansborg) is a 17th-century fort at Osu, Accra, run by the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board and part of a UNESCO World Heritage listing.

Photo: Danieljatuat · Source

Waterfall · Amedzofe

Ote Falls

Ote Falls is a multi-tiered waterfall in the forest above Amedzofe, a mountain town in Ghana's Volta Region, reached by a forest trail and canopy walkway.

Photo: Kradolferp · Source