Accra; The Capital for your Bankable Tour

The coastline remains a magnet for attraction regardless of region, but when a capital city is situated along it to pull in nationwide development to become an investment venue while it’s existent on the exotic continent of Africa, then, of course, it becomes a harbinger for tourism. Yes, it’s Accra, where Ghana has symbolized its nationalism while devouring in the opportunity of the historic importance for the place.

The national museum is located in Accra which houses archaeological artefacts and culture varying from diverse ethnicities spread across the African continent, the core reason why many international historians are found catching flights to Accra. The Museum also includes an archaeological department while featuring exhibitions on Ashanti art and ancestral tools on a temporary, time-to-time basis.

The Du Bois Memorial Centre featuring memorabilia of Africa’s decorated Pan American scholar, Kwame Nkrumah mausoleum of Ghana’s first president and the George Podmore research library altogether raise Accra prominently shouldering its responsibility of being the capital city. Other than that, the art galleries along with the handicrafts bazaar trading souvenirs, textiles and footwear at the National Culture centre should be on anyone’s checklist who is interested to get hands on anything worth to buy.

Presumably, Accra’s beaches have the best hotels in the region to give an overall view of the fisherman active in their day’s catch or the general public engrossed in water sports and sunbathing.  The Cocoloco beach is revered to have an excessive breeding ground for turtles including certain endangered species, while local accommodations consist of individual huts and bungalows, built from palm thatches and branches, openly facing the sea to allow the cool breeze ventilate the inner rooms.

Prampram Beach transcends exposure to the remote region of Accra’s coastline, depicted by roughly-modeled canoes painted in primary colors which are owned by the fishermen of the Prampram village. With the expansion of the village, the density of palm plantations in this sector of the beach is lower, thus fast sea breezes bearing high water vapor content are easily visible from a distance after each successive wave of water runs ashore.  Two very unique resorts are worth mentioning when highlighting Accra’s beaches; Kokrobite Beach resort and the Next Door beach resort. Kokrobite has the ambience reliant on easy convenience and hospitality of the owner, who in this case is an elderly English woman managing the resort.

Next door beach resort is for the ones who do fuss a great deal regarding facilitation and the luxury existent in internationally acclaimed accommodations, and classy they will find it indeed; concrete, circular bungalows with airy rooms and uniformly-rafted roofs, surrounded by vast plain gardens shaded by one or two sprawling coconut trees, and outdoor cemented flooring hitting the beach complete with umbrellas composed of palm thatches to allow open-air seating in front of the terrace bar.

The main means of public transport for tourists other than taxis for commuting on long distances by road are “tro-tro’s”, a local term for minivans which have been introduced on Ghanaian roads to ease out the traffic. The search for observation for any tourist would end on Osu castle, one of the oldest buildings existent in Africa while being a clear landmark established beside the coastline, emancipating topographic beauty with tropical forestation surrounding it in the entire backdrop of the castle itself. The Danish cannons from pre-independence are still preserved on the upper terraces of the castle, while the whole place has that picture-perfect aura to be printed upon a postage stamp for Ghana.

Flights from UK to Ghana do prove to be inexpensive, starting with a net ticket price of £416 from Alitalia airlines. Other airlines managing flight routes to Accra include TAP-Air Portugal, Turkish Airlines, and British Airways and Ethiopian airlines.