Overview

This tour offers a unique and culturally rich experience in reconnecting with our roots and ancestors . During this tour, you are allowed to meditate, pray, cleanse away any negative emotions and embrace positive actions . Visiting the Slave River, Slave  Dungeons, the historic Dutch Cemetery , traditional renaming ceremony and also an opportunity to visit a Ghanaian rural community and their farms provides you with an opportunity to cleanse ourselves from filthiness of flesh and spirit and welcome greatness in the journey ahead. This tour also offers an opportunity to meet African mothers and learn how to make local fabrics with them.

Tour Highlights 

• Assin Manso Slave River and Market. The slave river  is also called the “Donkor Nsuo” where the slaves had their last bath before they were matched to the slave forts and dungeons. Spiritual cleansing and meditations always take place in River Ama Amissah located next to the Slave River. This river is believed to give clarity, blessing and wealth. This is where we have our first birth of return.
• A traditional renaming ceremony will be performed after the our first bath of return. During this ceremony, one is designated with a traditional name of the soul and the family. This makes one have a better understanding and connection to the culture and the ancestors .

• Tour the Cape Coast Slave Dungeon.  This castle serves as the first seat of government in the Gold Coast ( now Ghana). We will have the opportunity to listen to the stories and  horrors of the slave trade. There are museums and slave dungeons where the slaves were kept while awaiting to be shipped to the unknown destinations. Experience the historic “Door of No Return” and “Door of Return”

• Driving tour of Elmina and the meeting of the Mothers. Since Elmina is a fishing community, we will drive through one of the biggest fishing markets along the beach. We will also have the opportunity to see the Elmina Slave Dungeon; the oldest European building in Sub Saharan Africa built in 1482 by the Portuguese. The Historic Dutch Cemetery constructed on the order of the Governor of Dutch Gold Coast Johannes Petrus Hoogenboom 1806. This place was also known as “The Garden of Elmina”. It was built to inter Dutch officials in the country during that era.
• Visit the Mothers at Global Mamas to interact and learn how to make batik tie and dye. Batiking is the traditional process of applying wax and dye to fabric to achieve intricate and colourful patterns.

• Visit community farmers at their plantations (cocoa, oil palm, cassava, plantain) , study the history, processes involved in growing these crops and the economic importance to the country Ghana. This is also an opportunity to know some herbs and their medicinal purposes. The tour guide will also lead you through the rural lifestyle ; their food, cloth , ceremonies, puberty rites, funerals, marriage ceremonies and traditional symbols. We will end the tour with a visit to a local palm oil making factory .

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