Overview
December in Ghana tour is specially curated around the AfroFuture festival which celebrate Africa’s diverse culture and the vibrant work of African creatives and entrepreneurs.
The festival is designed to elevate and highlight the thrilling and thriving millennial talents from and within Africa. The festival put Africa culture on display from music, food, dance, art and fashion drawing people from allover the world together in Ghana to experience the true spirit of African’s culture.
Afrofuture festival will immersed you in tapestry of African traditions like Afrobeats and highlife music, thrilling you to captivating exhibition of African art and dresses, the festival is billed to have cultural installation that emphasize the richness and diversity of African culture. Afrofuture have a lot to offer it visitors from its broad roaster from live music concert, fashion presentations, art exhibitions and variety of African food and drinks.
On this tour we have diligently curated multiple experience to ensure you get a well rounded and culturally exposure when you visit Ghana for Christmas.
Participants on this tour will engage in an act of tree planting in Accra to help combat the effect of global warming due to climate change, this act of humanity will propel our world and make it a safe place for all humans to live.
Tour Highlights
- Afrofuture concert
- New year’s eve party (pov)
- Boat ridding
- Slave castles
- Kakum national park
- Kwame Nkrumah mausoleum and park
- Shai hills
- Tree planting
Itinerary
Our cultural experts will meet you at the airport and transfer you to your scheduled accommodation where you will be welcome with giant African drums beating from the heart of mother Africa and whiles being thrilled to the vibrant sounds of the drums you will be served with African’s best cocktails and local drinks.
Today we are officially starting our journey and we will begin by exploring the century old city of Accra and visit fascinating landmarks like colonial architectures and modern-day skyscraper’s which depict the people’s resilience for transforming Accra to metropolis.
W.E.B Du Bois center will be our first destination which we will experience first-hand knowledge about one of the greatest of pioneers of black liberation around the globe, the center used to be his official residence which he lived there for two years with his wife before passing away and it has since be converted into a museum in his honor and serving as a study center for Africanism.
We will journey through this bustling city to Independence or Black star Square which serves as a symbolic monument for Ghana freedom from colonial rule and the grounds holds major national event like the independence cerebration and most national gatherings. We will drive through the oldest community in Accra Jamestown which was formed around the British Jamestown Fort built in 1673 for the trade of gold and slaves, it also served as a prison which where Ghana first president Kwame Nkrumah was imprison from 1950 to 1951 before winning election whiles in prison and then released.
We will then drive through Ghana’s presidential palace “Flagstaff House” and explore the architectural prowess of modern-day Ghana.
We will return to our accommodation to prepare for our first night experience of the rebranded AfroFuture {Afrochella}. This gives us unique opportunity to cerebrate African diversity, inclusiveness, and the thrilling and thriving millennial talent, culture and art from and within Africa.
The new AfroFuture museum will thrill you to a museum like experience which will carry you through a nostalgic music journey into the future with authentic live performance of Afrobeat and highlife music, cultural and contemporary art installation.
Today we will start our day mid-morning due to late partying from last night, after breakfast we will continue our Accra city exploration and we will first visit the Kwame Nkrumah memorial park and museum, the museum and mausoleum is surrounded by a lush greenly of trees planted dignitaries who has visited the park in the past like Nelson Mandela of South Africa. The park houses the remains and the final resting place of Ghana’s first black president, we will walk through the museum and learn about his life work towards the black Africa and the black race in general being a champion of excellence and liberation.
From this historic site will continue to the National museum of Ghana which serves as a treasure trove of the country’s history and culture. The museum has installation of captivating exhibition of rich heritage from the stone age to the iron age, and its struggles for independence and resilience.
The museum was established in 1957 by the first president Kwame Nkrumah and it contains archaeological findings and collection of artifacts, sculptures and textiles.
Funeral is an integral part of our culture here in Ghana and some people bid farewell to their deceased love ones in style so we will journey to Teshie fancy coffin making center and see how some people travel to new world like a car liked coffin for a deceased driver or a canoe liked coffin for a fisherman whilst cocoa pod liked coffins are for farmers.
We will return to our hotel and dinner and prepared for our second night at the AfroFuture music festival.
After waking up late and taking our breakfast we will travel to Shai Hills national park around mid-day to have a glimpse of baboons Monkeys be thrill to their human liked features before entering the park to a fascinating scenes of wild animals like Zebras and Antelopes, we will challenge our adventurous spirit when we are endeavored to hike onto the sacred rocky caves and learn about the formal homes of the Shai people during the stone age.
After this adventure we will travel to the Aburi botanical garden and embrace ourselves with the beauty of nature and pose for pictures with trees centuries older than us.
At this garden we will be entreat for each one of us to choose a plant of choice for our tree planting exercise tomorrow to help fight the effect of climate change in our world our only home.
We will have lunch at Peduase lodge hotel
Today we will act as a change to safe humanity by planting trees in the street of Accra to curb the effect of global warming. This event will be capture and televised later in the national news bulleting on tv.
After a sumptuous lunch we will visit the biggest cultural market in Ghana the Art center cultural market to shop for authentic Ghanaian souvenirs, art works, sculptures and intricate Ghanaian fabrics like Kente.
Today we travel to Akosombo and have fun on the water where we will entreat ourselves to boat cruising and have lunch on a floating boat or dine at the river front view restaurant.
We will be endeavored to take a canoe riding practice or go fishing. We will later travel back to Accra.
Today is a free day and you’re being encourage to do personal exploration by going to the movies, shopping at the mall or the famous Oxford street and sunbathing at the beach.
Tonight, we will be awake partying at the AfroFuture New Year’s Eve {POV} party and usher in the new year. This party is Christening all white party which is believe t bring good fortunes and vibe into the new year.
We will drive to the colonial city of Cape Coast and upon arriving we will visit UNESCO heritage site of Elmina slave castle which is the first point of contact with the Europeans, the castle was built by the Portuguese in 1482 formally as a trading post but it was later expanded to contain slave and traded hands with several European powers. It was significant during the slave trade era and a lot of enslaved Africans past through this infamous edifice before reaching the new world.
We will have Naming ceremony event in our honor.
We will continue our colonial exploit and visit the Cape Coast slave castle built by the Swedish Africa company in 1653 and was largely used by the British for their trade of goods and slaves.
It is a UNESCO heritage site and our guest will be walk through the female and male dungeons, the door of no return when enslaved Africans never slept in their motherland again. There is installation of useful exhibition materials in the museum to help you understand what transpired half a millennial ago.
Our second stop will be Kakun national park and canopy walk, the 7-step foot bridge built on lush greenly trees aging over hundred years old virgin forest will intrigue. The park covers an area of 375 square kilometers and the forest have wild animals like bush elephants, antelopes, monkeys etc.
After breakfast we will take a trip back to Accra and upon arriving, we will do last minute shopping at the cultural market and then relax at the mall before going to the airport for our departure.
All too soon our journey together has come to the end and we surely missed you but we will carry on with the pleasant memories you shared with us.
Cost Includes
- Airport transfers
- Hotel accommodation
- Ground transportations
- Certified tour guide and driver
- Meals (daily breakfast, 3 lunches & 3 dinners)
- Admission to all sites
- VIP admission to AfroFuture festival and the New Year’s party
- Bottled water on the bus
- Assistance with visa application
Cost Excludes
- Cost of visa
- Flights
- Meals not listed above
- Travel insurance