Tours of the Ashanti Kingdom

Learn Asante history and culture at the Manhyia Palace, home of the Ashanti King, and also the smaller Prempeh II Jubilee Museum. Explore the vast Kejetia market and tour the National Culture Centre, where local hand-made crafts are produced and displayed.

Tour Kumasi like a local in one of our pragya tricycles, or travel in comfort in an air-conditioned vehicle.

From $99 per person

     

Enjoy a fun-filled half-day exploring one of West Africa's largest markets, the vast Kejetia Market in Kumasi. So much activity that the market cannot contain everything, and sellers jam the streets in all directions.

$34 per person

     

Witness Ashanti crafts being created in traditional villages outside of Kumasi. Learn how Kente cloth has been woven on wooden looms for centuries. Visit a village that produces hand-stamped Adinkra cloth, a pottry village, and traditional wood carvers. Includes a visit to a cocoa farm.

Those of African descent can have a traditional blessing and naming while adorned in Kente.

From $99 per person

Visit Ghana's only natural lake, and Africa's only meteorite impact lake on this relaxing day of nature. Enjoy a ride on the calm lake surface, hiking or horseback on lakeside trails, or just enjoy the atmosphere from a lakeside resort.

Continue to the Bobiri Forest butterfly sanctuary in the afternoon, where over 400 butterfly species have been recorded.

From $129 per person

Attend the colorful Akwasidae festival for the Ashanti King. This display of Asante culture is an explosion of pageantry, ceremony, drumming and excitement as the Asantehene rides his palequin through the festivities.

This tour also visits a Kente weaving village, and either the Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary or the Bunso Eco Park.

From $371 per person

     

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This fast-paced tour travels from the capital city of Accra to the proudly African city of Kumasi, heart of the Ashanti Kingdom. After exploring Asante culture, we travel to the former slave dungeons at Cape Coast before returning to Accra.

Other highlights include traditional craft villages, the rainforest canopy walkway at Kakum National Park, a cocoa farm, markets, beaches and more!

From $1,416 per person