Ghana Crafts - Dipo Festival tour

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=3 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="063a6553.jpg"> <div> <B><meta name="description" content=" Beads and beauty at the famous Dipo festival. See the festival ceremonies in a private house. See young girls dressed in beads celebrating their becoming women. Ghana Craft tours looking at powder glass recycled bottle glass beads, Easter dipo festival, adinkra printed cloth, recycled plastic beads, lost wax cast brass, Ashanti culture and communities, kente cloth and wood carving, wilderness tours, and cycling tours. All Ashanti Arts and Crafts tours in Ghana visit Fair Trade producers and small communities, and are ecotourism orientated - designed to benefit the artisans and the communities. See Ghana crafts and communities with Environmentally Responsible Tourism"></B><B>Ghana Crafts - Dipo Festival tour</B></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Eleven day tour - </B><B>Itinerary</B></div> <div> Day 1:Meet at airport and transfer to hotel.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="4e48c290.jpg" border=0 width="140" height="41" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </div> <div> Day 1: tour of Accra, Ghana's capital: visit the National Museum to learn Ghana's history and cultural pedigree: visit the Arts Centre. </div> <div> Day 2: Cultural orientation as we drive North to Kumasi, historic capital of the Ashanti nation, through exquisite scenery from the coast up onto the central plateau.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="4e39f6a0.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="106" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> Days 3-4-5-6: Visit Dabaa beadmakers, Kurofofrom brass casters, Kente weavers adn woodcarvers. Afternoon excusions to the Cultural Centre,  Kumasi Central Market.</div> <div> Day 7: South to Koforidua, stopping in Abompe to see the stone bead makers and learn about village life.</div> <div> Day 8: to Koforidua for the Thursday bead market .</div> <div> Day 9: trip to Boti falls and a remote and scenic beadmaking village.</div> <div> Day 10: Observe the Dipo - a day of rituals in  a private home ending with celebrations, drumming and dancing.</div> <bR> <div> Day 11: Return to Accra for shopping or time on the beach before flight home. </div> <div> Cost of the tours is an all inclusive US$2000 plus flights. This covers transport, accomodation, food, entry fees etc.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4e2a26b0.jpg" border=0 width="162" height="107" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>      Email info@fiema.com to find out more about the Ashanti Arts and Crafts Tours.</div> <div> Or call us on 01488 686 222.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="jewellery.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hand crafted jewellery"><U>For more about brass and powder glass beads go to Fiema Crafts.</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFF99" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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Above all people in Ghana, the Krobo value their bead heritage. The performance of various rituals culminates in the parading of the young women clad in thousands of heirloom beads as a sign of their wealth and beauty.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6515e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Beads beads beads...Dipo dancers give an impromptu performance for Fiema's tour guests in 2009.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Itinerary</B></div> <bR> <div> Visits to bead-making villages in Ghana's Krobo region and Eastern regions, Koforidua's famous bead market, Boti falls, and the Dipo ceremony.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6575e2b0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="299" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The group will be small, no more than 6, so the travel itinerary is flexible and relaxed. The day to day itinerary may vary from this outline, but you will see what is talked about in this trip description and a whole lot more! </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6555e060.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Includes</B>: Accommodation - single rooms, 80% meals, land transport, tuition, site visits. </div> <div> <B>Does not include</B>: Airfare.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="6545ef30.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="243" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Email john@fiema.com to find out more about Ghana and Ashanti Arts and Crafts Tours.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Or call me on 01488 686 222</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="65b5e350.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="309" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> See what people say...</div> <div> <I>"So many thanks John for a most memorable trip, I can't think what took me so long to return, and I am going to have to return pretty soon! 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