Arrival and picked up by the staff. Depending on the time of arrival, we would be able to visit the National Museum, lekki craft market, and the Nike art gallery. We can experience the nightlife in Lagos Nigeria at the African shrine or at the Moist beach club.

Accommodation:

• Standard Accommodation: Jeromes Garden and suites

You will be picked-up from your hotel in Lagos for a quick run through Lagos mainland, then visit the Makoko floating village and off to the island to relish the Lekki conservation center.

Accommodation:

• Standard Accommodation: Jeromes Garden and suites

Leave for Badagry very early to beat traffic. We will visit the Badagry slave Museum of History, the Slave Root, Point of no return and the house of a former slave returnee who later became a slave merchant. From the Slave Museum, we will drive onward to the Nigeria/Benin border (Seme) and cross the border onward to Cotonou.

Accommodation:

• Standard Accommodation: Hotel du Lac

After breakfast, we will drive to Ouidah, the spiritual capital of voodoo religion and once a major slave-trading post. You will visit the Voodoo Museum, the Sacred Forest, the Cathedral and the Temple of the sacred Pythons where you will see the 41 writhing pythons (41 is voodoo’s magic number). Visit to the common grave, the tree of forgetfulness and the “Gate of no Return”. Finally, you will visit the “Maison de la Francophonie”, the Lovers’ Lane and the floating market.

Accommodation:

• Standard Accommodation: La Casa Del Papa

Tours today include the Royal Palace Museum where you may have an audience with the King of Abomey. Abomey retains many reminders of its magnificent past including the Palace, the Historical Museum and the Royal Sepulchers bearing witness to a brave and powerful people.

Accommodation:

• Standard Accommodation: Hotel La Marriela

Leave for Lomé very early in the morning. Today we travel to Togo. After a 3-hour drive you will be assisted through Togo immigration, then begin the city tour of Lomé and vicinity. Visits include Independence square, the Artisans village, the national museum, the fetish market– the heart of traditional medicine, the fishing harbor, Art Street and the Grand Marché, realm of the famous Nana Benz ladies.

Accommodation:

• Standard Accommodation: ONOMO Hotel Lomé

After breakfast and checkout from the hotel or apartment, we shall travel to Kara. We will make a stop over in Atakpame where you can buy fresh natural fruits, fried fish from Namgbeto River and have a look at the mountains. We shall continue our journey and make our next stop at Sotouboua and Sokode where we can visit the local markets and arrive in Kara late afternoon.

Accommodation:

• Standard Accommodation: Hotel Marie Antoinette Kara

Today we will explore this village with its unique architecture and rich history. This day will be spent exploring the remarkable mud architecture of the Battamariba people who occupy the lush Taberma valley, a visit to Sarakawa National Park and, a stop over to watch the place where the former President of Togo had a plane crash in 1974 to see the remaining pieces of the plane, and the monument of President Gnassimgbe Eyadema. The Battamariba’s two-story mud-dwellings with soaring conical thatch roofs are miniature fortresses that dot the Koutammakou landscape. It is said that the people of this region, who are agriculturists, are greatly connected to nature, symbolized by their dwellings, rituals, crafts, song and dances. This cultural landscape has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Accommodation:

• Standard Accommodation: Hotel Marie Antoinette Kara

Today in Kara, you will find magic remedies and voodoo charms used by local sorcerers. Late afternoon return to Lomé.

Accommodation:

• Standard Accommodation: ONOMO Hotel Lomé

Today, we will visit the slave house in Agbodrafo. Continue to Togoville, a red-earth village which was the homeland of numerous slaves taken to Haiti. Depart for Accra. Arrive and check into a hotel for relaxation (maybe a night out to Osu oxford street). Other activities today will depend on our arrival time and preference.

Accommodation:

• Standard Accommodation: Hotel 33 Plus

Today you will explore Accra and visit historical landmarks such as W. E. B. Dubois Center for Pan African Culture, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, Independence/Black Star Square, National Museum, Osu (formerly Christiansborg) Castle-the previous seat of the Ghanaian Presidency, Jamestown, and Kane Kwesi Carpentry workshop.

Accommodation:

• Standard Accommodation: Hotel 33 Plus

Leave for Kumasi very early in the morning on a five-hour drive. Visiting the Manhyia palace museum, Okomfoanokye sword site, Prempeh 2 Museum, Kejetai central market where we will see the Ashanti women selling their wares in the market, Notonso adinkra stamping village, Bonwire weaving, and Lake Bosomtwe.

Accommodation:

• Standard Accommodation: Rees Hotel

Leave Kumasi very early in the morning towards Cape Coast/Elmina. After lunch, return to Cape Coast and visit Cape Coast Castle and the Castle Museum on a guided tour. The Cape Coast Castle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and was one of the departure points for Africans being sent into slavery in the Americas. The castle is home to the infamous “Door of No Return”.

Accommodation:

• Standard Accommodation: One Africa Hotel

Return trip to Accra and departure.