Tours of Northern Ghana

Tour Tamale, the heart of Northern Ghana. Visits Shea Butter production, sites of traditional crafts, markets, mosques and and artist-run gallery in the fastest-growing city in West Africa. Includes a cultural performance of northern Ghana drumming and dance.

Transit in either an air-conditioned vehicle or a local tricycle.

Spend a day in a traditional village to witness or participate in daily activities at a local home, farm and school. Then, on a day in Tamale, visit a leather tannery, fabric weavers, various markets, an artists gallery, and enjoy a northern cultural performance.

Explore the city of Tamale, visit a former slave camp, and enjoy northern culture at dance performance. Then travel to the seat at the Kingdom of Dagbon in Yendi to tour the palace and meet tribal elders. Also visit a witch's camp, which is a home for outcast women accused of witchcraft (donations gladly accepted).

Journey into the exotic lands of northern Ghana for a culture and history experience. Visit former slave camps, sacred spaces, mud-brick and adobe structures, unique living compounds, and the crocodile ponds at Paga.

This cultural and wildlife experience in northern Ghana combines a driving day tour of Tamale with a 3 or 4 day elephant and hippo safari tour.

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12 days in Ghana, traveling from the crocodile ponds at Paga on the northern border with Burkina Faso all the way to the southern coast. Many cultures and experiences, including Kumasi and the surrounding Ashanti Kingdom, safari at Mole National Park, ancient mud-and-stick mosques, West Africa's largest food market at Techiman, uniquely painted adobe villages, a monkey sanctuary, the former slave castle at Elmina, and the rainforest of Kakum National Park.