Eleven day tour - Itinerary
Day 1:Meet at airport and transfer to hotel.
Day 2: Orientation on health, customs, and currency: morning tour of Accra, Ghana's capital: visit the National Museum to learn Ghana's history and cultural pedigree: tour the Arts Centre.
Day 3: Drive North to Kumasi, historic capital of the Ashanti nation, through exquisite scenery from the coast up onto the central plateau.
Days 4-5-6-7: Adinkra printing workshops in Ntonso. Afternoon excusions to the Cultural Centre, Lake Bosomtwe, Kumasi Central Market.
Day 8: South to Cape Coast, through the famous gold-bearing region of Obuasi.
Day 9: Explore the rainforest canopy walkways of Kakum Forest reserve with guides.
Day 10:Tour Cape Coast's spectacular seventeenth century castle, a historic evocation of the Slave Trade. before return to Accra via the scenic Winneba beach.
Day 11: Shopping in Accra's Makola Market and the Arts Centre, or relaxing on the beach before return flight.
Cost of the tours is an all inclusive US$1990 plus flights. This covers transport, accomodation, food, entry fees etc.
Email info@fiema.com to find out more about the Ashanti Arts and Crafts Tours.
Or call us on 01488 686 222.
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Ghana Beads and Crafts Tours - ethical, responsible, community based tours
If you live and work in Ghana for a short time you often don't see as much of the country as you would like. We help you see the country in short trips, making the most of your time.
Our tours are for small groups - not busloads! It might just be you and a driver to take you to places you would not find on your own.
Kumasi Craft Tours
One Day Tour - a driver will take you and your friends to the most historic Ashanti craft villages, where people continue to make cast brass, woven Kente cloth, printed Adinkra cloth, traditional carvings, and pottery using the techniques learnt from their forefathers. Including Kente village tour, Adinkra museum and workshop (print your own cloth).
Two Day Tour - in addition to seeing the craft villages on Day One as above, you can spend a second day visiting Lake Bosomtwe and a traditional shrine near Ejisu.
Cost (September 2010) 120 cedis per day for car and driver - including kente tour and Adinkra workshop - that's just 30 cedis per head if you have three friends! Pick up and return to Kumasi.
Email john@fiema.com to book.
Coastal Tours
Cape Coast Castle and Kakum walkway are the most famous sites on the coast. But you can also take a walk round Elmina, visit little fishing villages, and enjoy the beaches. Cost 100 cedis per day for car and driver plus entrance fees (Kakum currently 34 cedis, Cape Coast Castle 6 cedis).
Itinerary; Kakum walkway, Cape Coast Castle, Elmina tour, fishing village and beach. Pick up and return to Cape Coast.
Cost 100 cedis for car and driver.
Email john@fiema.com to book.
Bauxite Beads in Abompe
In Abombe bauxite beadmaking village they dig Bauxite from shafts on the top of the mountain and cut and polish it into beads. This is an opportunity to see rural village life on a village tour visit farmlands, gold mining pits, fruit gardens and a waterfall to give you a relaxing start to the tour.
You can do this as a day trip from Koforidua for 100 cedis a day for driver and car - including the village tour and waterfall walk.
Pick up and return to Koforidua.
Email john@fiema.com to book.
Koforidua Bead Making Tour
Lots of people visit the famous Koforidua bead market. Very few visit the villages where the beads are made. You will be taken to a small bead making village outside Koforidua and shown how the beads are made - then get a chance to make your own! Then you will have a short walk to one of the region's spectacular waterfalls before returning to Koforidua.
Pick up and return to Koforidua.
You can do this as a half day - following a morning browsing the bead market - for 50 cedis for car and driver - including village bead making tour and waterfall entrance fees.
Email john@fiema.com to book.
Email john@fiema.com to find out more about the Ashanti Arts and Crafts Tours.
Or call me on 01488 686 222
See what people say...
The relaxed pace of the trip offered a fascinating introduction to aspects of Ghanaian craftwork, culture and village life.'
Christine Souter, 2008
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