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 · Takoradi

Takoradi Harbour

Takoradi Harbour is Ghana's oldest seaport, a secured working industrial port in Sekondi-Takoradi commissioned in 1928, with restricted public access.

Photo: Kees Torn · Source

Attraction · Takoradi

Takoradi Monkey Hill

Takoradi Monkey Hill is a forested hill and primate habitat conservation site within Takoradi, listed by the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly as a tourist site.

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Attraction · Tamale

Tamale Central Market

Tamale Central Market is a major market in Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana, with Aboabo and Dakurili sections selling food, crafts and clothing.

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Attraction · Tongo

Tengzug Shrine

Tengzug Shrine is the paramount shrine of the Talensi people, set among sacred shrines in the cliffs of the Tongo Hills, about 15 km southeast of Bolgatanga.

Photo: Alhaj Darajaati · Source

Attraction · Tongo

Tenzug Cave School

Tenzug Cave School is a historic rock-overhang school site in the Tongo Hills near Tongo, Talensi District, Upper East Region, where formal education began between 1965 and 1985.

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Beach · Teshie

Teshie Beach

Teshie Beach is an Atlantic shoreline at Teshie, the administrative capital of Ledzokuku Municipal District in Ghana's Greater Accra Region.

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Attraction · Teshie

Teshie fantasy coffin workshops

Working carpentry studios in Teshie, Accra, where Ga carpenters hand-carve figurative "design coffins" for funerals and export.

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Attraction · Aprokumase

The Big Tree

The Big Tree is a giant Bako (Tieghemella heckelii) tree in the Esen Apam Forest Reserve near Akim Oda, Eastern Region, Ghana, reputed to be West Africa's biggest accessible tree.

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Resort · Akosombo

The Royal Senchi Hotel and Resort

A four-star riverside resort on Senchi Ferry Road at Akosombo, Eastern Region, with 84 rooms and suites, extensive sports and wellness facilities, and Volta River boat cruises.

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Attraction · Tongo

Tongo Chief's Palace

The royal court of the Paramount Chief of the Talensi Traditional Area, and a stop on the official Tongo-Tengzuk Cultural Landscape tour in Ghana's Upper East Region.

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Attraction · Tongo

Tongo Hills

A granite hill range near Tongo in Ghana's Upper East Region, known for balancing rock formations, caves and sacred Talensi ancestral shrines.

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Attraction · Tengzuk

Tongo-Tengzuk Cultural Landscape and Sacred Shrines

A Talensi cultural landscape of balancing rock formations and sacred ancestral shrines at the base of a horseshoe-shaped hill chain near Tongo, Upper East Region.

Photo: Munkaila Sulemana · Source

Waterfall · Dodowa

Tsenku (Chenku) Waterfall

Tsenku (Chenku) Waterfall, also called Wuruduwurudu Falls, is a seasonal two-level waterfall in the Dodowa Forest, Shai-Osudoku District, about 39 km from Accra.

Photo: Ferraripoundz · Source

Waterfall · Tarkwa

UMaT Waterfall

A small campus waterfall at the University of Mines and Technology in Tarkwa, Western Region, used by the university for World Water Day events and buffer-zone conservation.

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Attraction · Opersika

Umbrella Rock

Umbrella Rock is a balancing rock formation near Boti Falls in Ghana's Eastern Region, reached mainly by a guided forest hike and known for its overhang and valley views.

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Attraction · Bolgatanga

Upper East Regional Museum

An ethnographic museum in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, preserving the material culture of the region since 1972 and housed at its current site since 1991.

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Attraction · Accra

Ussher Fort

Ussher Fort is a 17th-century Dutch-built fort in James Town, Accra, now home to the Ussher Fort Museum on the history of the slave trade in Ghana.

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Resort · Sogakope

Villa Cisneros Resort and Spa

Villa Cisneros Resort & Spa is a 3-star riverside resort on the Volta River in Sogakope, Volta Region, with air-conditioned rooms, a pool, restaurant, spa and event grounds.

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Hotel · Akosombo

Volta Hotel Akosombo

Three-star hilltop hotel above the Akosombo dam in Ghana's Eastern Region, overlooking Lake Volta, with rooms, suites, a villa, pool and conference facilities.

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Attraction · Ho

Volta Regional Museum

A GMMB-run ethnographic museum in Ho, Volta Region, opened in 1973 in the former Office of the Regional House of Chiefs.

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Attraction · Ada Foah

Volta River Estuary

The Volta River Estuary at Ada Foah is where the Volta River, draining Lake Volta, meets the Atlantic Ocean on Ghana's southeast coast.

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Hotel · Sogakope

Volta View Hotel

Volta View Hotel is a long-established budget hotel in Sogakope, Volta Region, near the main bus station off the Tema–Aflao Road.

Photo: Laila Seidu · Source

Attraction · Vume

Vume Pottery Community

Vume is a small town near Sogakope in Ghana's Volta Region, long noted for household pottery workshops and roadside pot displays along the Accra–Aflao highway.

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Attraction · Vume

Vume Pottery Village

The pottery-making quarter of Vume in the South Tongu District, Volta Region, where roadside workshops along the Accra-Aflao highway make and display household pots.

Photo: Enock4seth · Source

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