On this adventure travel, African Network Travel & Tours offers you an opportunity to stay home with a Ghanaian family to familiarise yourselves with the Ghanaian family homestay experience as well as visit many exciting places accross Ghana.

Program for the year 2007: 8-day tour
13 April till 27 April
12 September till 26 June
03 August till 17 August
09 November till 23 November

Includes
• 2 nights stay in good hotels, air-conditioned rooms with toilet, bath/shower.
• Bed and continental breakfast.
• 4 nights stay at host families, bed and breakfast.
• Transfers as described in the itinerary.
• All excursions, including entrance fees, except the optional walk on the Canopy walkway, as described in the itinerary.

Group Size
Min. 8, max 20 persons

Prices
Per person sharing a double room $578.25
Single room supplements $125.00

Excludes
Any airfare, visa fees, airport taxes, travel insurance, beverages, tips and gratuities and all items of a personal nature.

1st day
Checking in at Hotel
Late lunch and first Briefing
Hotel for the night: natural hotel in Accra.

2nd day
After breakfast you will start a round trip through Accra, passing through the

• Independence square
• Korle Bu, James Town
• Makola market, etc.
• then to the Dubois Center for Pan Africanism,
• the Arts Centre for National Culture with the craft bazaar and the
• Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum.

In the afternoon you will visit the Aburi Botanical Gardens well-known for its healthy climate and the over hundred years old botanical gardens. The afternoon offers you the opportunity to walk between the beautiful, variable flowers, plants and trees.
Hotel for the night: Miklin hotel at Accra.

3rd day
On this day we will travel to Cape Coast. On the way, you get acquainted with the colonial history. After a beautiful trip over the coastal road and a short visit to Fort Amsterdam and the fisherman at the beach, a visit to Elmina castle and the Elmina fish market will be our next stop.

Elmina castle is one of the sixty forts and castles that where build by the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British, during the time of trade in gold, ivory and slaves.

A visit to Elmina Castle as well as Cape Coast Castle is a must because it will give you a feel of the agony your ancestors went through. We will send you to your host family after the program.

4th day
An excursion to the Kakum National Park will be the start of the program. Within the park you will have one hour guided walk through the park plus an optional canopy walkway.

Lunch will be provided at Hans Cottage hotel where you will have the opportunity to watch crocodiles birds and monkeys as back ground.

In the afternoon you will go to Cape Coast for workshop drumming and dancing, to give you the feeling of the cultural drumming and dancing of the Fanti people of the Central Region. After the workshop, dinner with life music is waiting for you. You will spend the night at the host family.

5th day
On this day, we make a 250 km. journey north of Cape Coast to Kumasi on one of the slave routes listed by the "UNESCO". Our first stop will be at Assin Manso. Here the slaves bought in the mainland were washed in the river before they were taken to the Castles. Because this river was the last stop of the slaves, there is a shrine on the river where libation is poured for our departed ancestors.

In the year 1998 two bodies were flown in from the Caribbean and North America and were buried just in front of the river. This is to signify the home coming of our brothers and sisters in the Diaspora.
In the afternoon you will visit the Ashanti palace museum and the Kejetia market in Kumasi. You will spend the night at a host family.

6th day
Excursion to craft villages; Pankrono, Ahwiaa and Ntonso.
In the afternoon you will start the trip to Adanwomase, a Kente village for a cultural experience. The Kente chief will welcome you with traditional music and dance. There will be a demonstration of Kente weaving and traditional cooking. You will also be visiting a peasant farm, where you will see the tapping of palm wine.
Night Stay: Host family.

7th day
After breakfast we will leave Kumasi and start the trip to Ada Foah, via Nkawkaw, Koforidua, Somanya, Afienya and Dawenya. After checking into the hotel, you will have dinner with cultural music and dance in the background.
Hotel for the night: Manet Paradise Beach Resort at Ada

8th day
After breakfast you will have a boat trip on the Volta River and visit some of the villages along the Volta River. In the afternoon we will start our trip to Accra. Here you can end your tour or extend it for three days at a beach resort or at a host family in Accra.