Tailor-made Ghana
About us
Ghana, one house at a time.
Akwaaba (ah-KWAH-bah)
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Akwaaba is the Twi word for welcome, the word that comes before the seat and the water. We took it as a promise about how your days should feel: received, not processed.
For well-travelled travellers and returning members of the diaspora who want Ghana in depth (court, coast, makers and savannah), Akwaaba plans private journeys around the people who make the country, at a pace that leaves time to sit down.
One house at a time
In Ghana an oware board turns up wherever people wait: on a bench in Kumasi's Kejetia market, outside a barber's kiosk in Jamestown, under a shea tree in a northern compound. It has two rows of six houses and forty-eight seeds, and it rewards the player who counts ahead and keeps the conversation going.
We plan a journey through Ghana the same way: one house at a time, with an eye on where the seeds will land. A morning inside the castle at Elmina needs an afternoon that lets you sit with it. A Sunday at Manhyia, when the Asantehene receives his chiefs at Akwasidae, decides the shape of the week around it. The road north to Mole is long, so we break it at a weavers' town or a waterfall, not a fuel station.
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A country you meet through people
Ghana is a country you meet through people: the historian who knows where to stop in the Cape Coast dungeons, the women of Sirigu who paint their walls in red, black and white earth, the gallery director in Osu, the boatman on the Volta. We build your days around them. Then we leave room, because the best hour of a trip here is often the one nobody planned.
How we work
Every trip starts as a conversation
There is no booking engine and no price list. You tell us what you want; a specialist writes back by hand and builds a proposal day by day, with a quote.
Pace before places
We would rather you saw four regions well than eight badly. Heavy days are followed by easy ones, and long drives are broken.
Honest about rooms and roads
Outside Accra the best rooms are comfortable rather than lavish, and some roads are long. We say so before you book.
Ghanaian guides, named in your trip
Historians, guides and drivers who know their regions. We introduce them by name in your itinerary, with their consent.
Respect for what is shared with visitors
We do not use kente, adinkra symbols or Sirigu murals as decoration. Where they appear on this site, they are subjects, explained by the people who make them.
What we will not do
We will not invent a history, a team or reviews to look bigger. We would rather earn them.
Read the journal“Then we leave room, because the best hour of a trip here is often the one nobody planned.”
Start a conversation
Leave your name and email and a specialist will write back by hand, usually within two working days. Or use the trip planner to send us more.