Sightseeing Tours & Trips in Ghana

Cape Coast Castle and Elmina Castle are UNESCO sites where you can learn about West Africa's slave trade history, with Elmina dating back to 1482 when the Portuguese built it. Over in Accra's Jamestown area, there's a lighthouse the British put up in 1875, and you'll stop by Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park honoring Ghana's first president.

From Accra's Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, you'll head to Tamale's Central Mosque and Ibrahim Mahama's Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, then safari at Mole National Park seeing African bush elephants and 200+ bird species. Cape Coast Castle and Elmina Castle's dungeons are UNESCO sites telling the slave trade story, and you'll visit Adawomase kente weaving village.

Elmina Castle, West Africa's first European structure and a UNESCO site, has dungeons where you'll learn about the transatlantic slave trade. At Kakum National Park, you'll walk across suspended canopy bridges 130 feet up spotting medicinal trees and rare wildlife. Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi displays a replica of the Golden Stool from 1700, and you can watch brass-makers and batik artisans at the National Cultural Center.

At Cape Coast Castle, you'll walk through the UNESCO site and see the Door of No Return, then head over to 15th-century Elmina Castle in the fishing town. Kakum National Park has Africa's only canopy walkway sitting 150 feet up in the rainforest with views stretching about 1,000 feet across the trees.

Kakum National Park's Canopy Walkway has suspension bridges about 30 meters above the rainforest floor with views across Assin Attandanso Reserve through 300-year-old trees. Cape Coast Castle and Elmina's Castle of St. George tell the transatlantic slave trade story at these UNESCO spots, then you'll hike Mount Afadjato at 885 meters and see Wli Falls surrounded by cliffs where fruit bats nest.

Walk the 1,000-foot canopy walkway at Kakum National Park, suspended 150 feet above the forest floor with views of 40 mammal species. Visit UNESCO-listed Cape Coast Castle and Elmina Castle, passing through the haunting Door of No Return where enslaved Africans departed. See the sacred Mona monkeys at Tafi Atome Sanctuary and hike to Ghana's highest waterfall at Wli through Agumatsa Forest.

Cape Coast Castle and Elmina Castle (a UNESCO site and Sub-Saharan Africa's oldest European building from 1482) show the slave trade history, and you'll join PANAFEST's Emancipation Day Ceremony at Assin Manso Slave River. In Accra, walk through Makola Market, see Agbogbloshie, visit W.E.B. Du Bois Center and Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, then head to Mole National Park for morning foot safaris spotting elephants.