Ghana/Senegal Experience - Kriszen

Today, you arrived in the motherland.  You will be picked up by our team at the Airport. Will be supported for the day to get acquainted to our new environment.

Settle in, relax and enjoy the new environment. 

 You can enjoy nightlife as you wish. 

Cost is Per Person is $180

Today we will immerse ourselves into the culture by participating in a traditional welcome home ceremony to welcome you to Ghana and to the Motherland for first timers. 

There will be chiefs and traditional leaders to offer prayers and perform some traditional rites to usher you into the land. 

You will also partake in a naming ceremony where you recieve your day name.

We will have the opportunity to dance along with the cultural dancers as we celebrate your return to the motherland.

You will also participate in a cooking session of some local Ghanaian dishes.

Our seamstress and tailor will be on standby to take measurements for those who want outfits made. 

Accra nightlife awaits you.

Cost Per Person: $350 usd

Today you will explore the capital city of Ghana. You will visit historic sites including 

• A visit to the National mausoleum.

• Visit to the independence square and Black star square, the most famous symbols of Ghana.  

• Visit Makola market, the biggest and busiest market in Accra where you can shop beautiful African fabrics.

 • Visit the local art market for art and craft shopping, walk around, interact with artists and enjoy the beautiful Ghanaian art. 

 • Learn how to make batik, one of the most popular fabrics in West Africa. You’ll leave with your very own, handmade batik creation, styled and designed by you.

Cost Per Person: $375 usd

First Stop: Assin Manso Sacred River

Assin Manso served as a slave market and the place where the slaves had their last bath. After sorting the slaves, the ones that were considered fit were sent to the forts along the coast where they were locked up in dungeons before being transported across the Atlantic to a foreign land.  

This site has been preserved as a sacred place of remembrance of our ancestors.

Second Stop: Cape Coast Dungeons

Today, we journey to the central region to visit the Cape Coast slave castle where it all began.   We will experience the horror of the dungeons where  slaves were kept to await the ships.  After, we will pass through the "door of no return"  where slaves exited and left their homeland. Today, the "door of no return" has been commemorated as the "door of return" to await the descendants of those who were forcefully taken. 

There will be a special door of return ceremony here to mark the emancipation of enslaved people of African descent.

Cost Per Person: $375 usd

You can also take other optional tours as will be recommended.

Cost will be determined by tour choice

First Stop:

Chocolate Tasting Experience

One of Ghana's best - kept secrets is the cacao and chocolate industry. Ghana is the 2nd largest supplier of cacao in the world. Indulge in some of the world’s best chocolate in the heart of Accra and satisfy your sweet tooth.  Learn about the history of the chocolate industry in Ghana and the process behind making some of the finest chocolate. 

They take the finest ingredients, utilise the best of technology infused with creative culinary arts and genuine love to create rich, smooth, melt-in-the-mouth uniquely flavoured chocolate.

• Participate in every step of our bean to bar chocolate making process
• Enjoy a full chocolate tasting experience of our full range of chocolates
• Learn more about the history of cocoa & chocolate in Ghana
• Indulge in some fine wine paired with some fine chocolates
• Break and relax during our high tea picnic lunch
• Complete the experience with chocolate and strawberries for dessert
• Set your own chocolate to take home

Second Stop:

 Gallery 57 

Visit Gallery 57 one of the leading contemporary art spaces in West Africa. View exciting exhibitions with works by contemporary African artists. 

Cost Per Person: $250 usd 

Today, you will catch an early morning flight to Kumasi to explore the Ashanti Kingdom. 

• Learn about the origin of the famous Kente cloth at the Bonwire Kente Village.
• Try your hand at thread spinning and weaving, or shop for your own exotic cloth.
• Take a tour of a cocoa farm
• Adinkra Symbols stamping
• Visit the following sites
• Ntonso Adinkra Symbolism Village
• Manhyia Palace 
• King Prempeh museum 
• Okomfo Anokye Sword site

Take a late flight back to Accra. Enjoy the nightlife as you wish.

Activity level is moderate. Attire: Comfortable clothing 

Cost Per Person: $500 usd

Today, you will take a short plane ride to the Northern part of Ghana.This is the largest Region in Ghana and very rich in culture and tradition.

You will make some stops at places like the red clay studios, the savannah center for contemporary arts ad local markets.

You will then take the rest of the day to learn how shea-butter is made my local women in the north. You will have first hand experience from how they pick the nuts to how they get the butter and all the processes involved. Shea-butter mostly come from the Northern part of Ghana is done by women groups in the North.

This will be an experience to cherish for a lifetime.

This is a two days experience.

Cost Per Person: $600 usd

Today you will explore the town sitting on water. You will take a canoe ride through the lush Amansuri wetlands to the stilt village of Nzulezu. Prepare to walk approximately 150m to the wooden walkway to board the rafts.

Also spend some time visiting some old forts and hometown of the first president of Ghana.

Activity level: Active and will ride in a small boat to the village. 

Cost Per Person: $400 usd

Today you will heard out of the capital to have a good time, learn and relax.

First Stop

Nkyinkyim Museum one of the biggest outdoor museums in Ghana. This unique experience helps to heal and regain spiritual strength and to pay respect to the ancestors.

Second Stop

Aqua Safari Resort

We will then proceed to the Aqua Safari Resort.

* We'll catch a boat ride on the Volta River and explore some nearby islands and the estuary. 

* Swimming  

* Beach games

* Indoor games like badminton, scrabble, board

* Lunch 

Add-ons at a fee

* Jet Ski

* Horse ride

* Fly board & Jet Lev

Cost Per Person: $350 usd 

Today we will have a typical Ghanaian village experience. This is for those who like to get away from the business of city life.

We will visit Fort Frederiksborg built by the Danes as an attack station against Cape coast slave castle. 

We will then journey on foot to Cape-3-Point Lighthouse which is considered one of the closest landmarks to the center of the earth.

We will take sometime to engage in a social impact project with Jodeb Foundation. We will make donations to children in the rural villages of Princess Town and Akatakyie.

Activity Level: Active and bring sneakers for walking

Cost Per Person: $350 usd

Today, you depart from the motherland, but not for long.

Nante yiye!  Yɛbɛhyia bio (Go well! we shall meet again).

You can do some last minute shopping today.

Cost Per Person: $180 usd

Day 1: Airport-Dakar

Diass international airport Blaise Diagne arrival.

Airport assistance and pick up to your  accommodation is provided. Distribution of bottles of mineral water and refreshing napkins.

Transfer to Medina to visit the craft village of Soumbédioune. 

The artisanal village of Soumbédioune is one of the best places for the creation and exhibition of local crafts. Today, about 2,000 craftsmen are active in several fields, including leatherwork, pottery, jewelry, weaving, bookbinding, basketry.  We can enjoy a folkloric welcome.

Lunch spot to check out is the La Fourchette restaurant.

Day 2: Dakar - Goree Island

Departure to the hotel for the Gorée pier to take a ferry that will take us to the island

of Gorée. Upon arrival in Gorée, we can also enjoy a folkloric welcome from the Signares.

We will then stroll through its colonial streets and visit the slave house-museum, where slaves were gathered, selected, and locked up while they awaited shipment to the other side of the Atlantic.

Optional: Sand blasted painting classes 

Gorée, island of memory but also artistic refuge. We will finish the trip by

visiting a sand painting workshop. You will receive a display of how sand arts are done which is very fascinating.

Optional Experience: Cooking classes of local dishes (Complimentary)

Lunch spot to check out is a private villa in the island.

Day 3: Dakar City tour

We begin a city tour of Dakar, the Senegalese capital. Each of its neighborhoods is different and can be explored with pleasure on foot or by cab. This dizzying city is composed of the elegance and the bustle of the people. We’ll make a visit that will permit us to discover the colonial remains of what was the capital of French Africa: the Presidential palace, the Independence Place, the chamber of commerce, Kermel market, Museum of Black Civilizations, monument of the African renaissance, Masalikoul Jinane Mosque (Built to the glory of Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba (founder of Mouridism), Massalikoul jinane culminates at 75 meters high, 80 if you count the pinnacle of the great minaret. "There is first of all a global Islamic tradition of gigantism to mark the space and give places of convergence to Muslims. Continuation to a chic district named ‘Almadies’.  

Day 4: Pink Lake

Today, we will discover the Lake Retba, better known as pink lake, the last stage of the world-famous Paris-Dakar rally.

Drive in the famous Pink lake 4x4 for the last stage of the famous Dakar Rally.

There will be an otional camel and Sand Quad rides available here.

Lunch spot to check out is under a Khaimah tent in front of the beach.

Day 5: Bandia Reserve

Depart to the Bandia Reserve a natural park located about 30 minutes from the station of Saly Portudal, a microsystem in which you can see a myriad of trees and most important fauna of West Africa (buffaloes, gazelles, giraffes, rhinos, ostriches, baboons and up to twenty different species). 

Refreshments at the Bandia Reserve restaurant next tob the lagoon from where we will contemplate crocodiles, monkeys and a variety of birds.

You can have lunch in a private area of the reserve's restaurant.

Day 6 - Departure

Transfer to Diass airport.

Accomodations will be a good 4 star and above.

Cost per person for double occupancy: $2750