Itinerary

1. Day 1: Arrival in Cotonou

   • Arrival and pick up. Drop off at the hotel for overnight at your hotel

2. Day 2: Benin Tour

   • Visit the Cotonou craft market
   • Journey to the Amazon statue
   • Ganvie stilt village
   • A tour of the Temple of Pythons, a site of historical and modern symbolism and spiritual practice in the ouidah Benin Republic, will follow this.
   • Explore the Sacred Forest and the point of no return.

3. Day 3: Ouidah-Abomey

   • Leave ouidah to Abomey. Arrive and tour Abomey, the capital of the former Dahomey Empire. This empire, which lasted 300 years, rivals that of the Ashanti, both of which established their power by constantly being at war and capturing prisoners for the Slave Trade. 
   • Visit one of the 12 magnificent palaces built by the Dahomey Kings, now a Museum. 
   • We will visit the war room, the common grave of King Glele's 42 wives, and the throne room.
   • Visit the Chameleon Temple and a fetish market.
   • Return trip to ouidah for overnight at your hotel

4. Day 4: Grand popo - Lome

   • Leave for Grandpopo, visit the turtle sanctuary and the salt village and maybe witness a Zangbeto ceremony in Grandpopo.
   • Continue the trip to the border of Togo.
   • After immigration, take a boat ride to Togoville to visit the ancient German Cathedral and the traditional museum of the King of Togoville.
   • Continue to Lome for overnight stay at hotel Napoleon lagune.

5. Day 5: Lome - Accra

   • Visit the Akodesséwa fetishes market, where we can find magic remedies and local voodoo charms used by local sorcerers, and then go to the grand march.
   • Continue to the border into Ghana and then leave to accra.

   Overnight stay at the best western premier hotel.

6. Day 6: Accra – Capecoast - Elmina

   • Get picked up from the hotel for a trip to the Central Region with a stopover at Fantasy Coffin Makers, which makes special coffins that reflect some job whilst alive.
   • Continue to Cape Coast Castle (Fort Carlsborg).
   • Experience a cultural drum and dance session with the Akumapa dance group.

   Overnight stay at the Elmont Resort or the Elmina Beach Resort in Elmina.

7. Day 7: Elmina – Takoradi (75km) – Elmina

   • Set off for the Western Region to visit the Bisa Aberwa Museum, which is dedicated to promoting African values and celebrating Pan-African heroes.
   • Continue to Nana Nketsia's Palace for a naming ceremony amidst traditional drumming and dancing and be given traditional Akan names.
   • Join the Paramount Chief for lunch.
   • Return to the beach resort in the late afternoon.

   Overnight stay at the Elmont Resort or Elmina Beach.

8. Day 8: Elmina - Accra

   • Depart from Elmina to Accra.
   • On arrival in Accra, we drive past Independence Square and the Osu Castle to the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park (the final resting place of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first President) and the Accra Arts Centre.
   • Spend the night at the Best western premier hotel.

9. Day 9: Accra

   • Relax a bit before your pickup for a cooking session and lunch.
   • Afterwards, you will be dropped off at the airport for your final departure.