Travel planning
Ghana Visa and Entry Requirements
Ghana asks for a visa arranged before you fly, a passport with six months left on it and a yellow fever certificate at the border.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Ghana: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Ghana
Ghana has two wet seasons in the south, one in the north and a dust laden harmattan between them. A month by month reading of when to go.
Heritage
Assin Manso: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The last bath before the coast. Assin Manso was a great inland slave market, and is now a place of return, of reburial and of quiet.
Heritage
Elmina Castle: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Begun in 1482, St. George’s d’Elmina is one of the oldest European buildings outside Europe. What survives there, and how to visit it.
Heritage
Cape Coast Castle: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The largest of Ghana’s coastal castles, a World Heritage Site and a working museum. What stands there now, and how to visit it properly.
Destination Guide
What to Know Before Visiting Ghana
Ghana holds a particular place in diaspora travel, and a first visit asks more of you than a list of sights suggests. What to understand before you go.
Destination
Ghana
The Gold Coast forts, Ashanti goldworking, highlife and the Year of Return: Ghana holds a particular place in diaspora travel.