Coastal Journeys and Echoes of History, Gold Coast, Ghana: May 1 – 4, 2025

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See the best of what Accra has to offer on this 4  days History and culture tour of the Gold Coast, present day Ghana.

Learn about contemporary Ghanaian history at Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, Independence Square, and the James Town Lighthouse, go shopping at Makola Market and the Center for National Culture, and learn about the Pan-Africans movement at the W.E.B. Du Bois Centre.

Then visit the castles of Cape Coast and spend time in Kakum National Park on a full Day history experience

Start off with a tour of the Cape Coast Castle, which now hosts a historical museum and gift shop before heading to Elmina Castle, where you’ll learn about its role in the harrowing Atlantic slave trade. Here you’ll see the See infamous “Door of No Return”  the last place millions of slaves saw of Africa before they were taken by force to the Caribbean and elsewhere Elmina Castle

You’ll wrap your tour up at Kakum National Park, home to hundreds of bird species along with a variety of mammals. Take a stroll on the Kakum canopy walkway

This experience will take you on a journey which will expose you to the activities of the slave trade era and the effects it had on communities, nations and humanity as a whole.