Ga-Mashie District Tours and Tickets

Explore Accra's Danish, Dutch and Jamestown neighborhoods on a 3-hour walking tour that takes in the architectural highlights of this historic seaside city. Follow your guide through streets lined with pre-colonial buildings, and hear the stories behind the elegant homes and imposing mansions built by the first Dutch and Danish colonizers. Follow the thread of colonial rule into the Ga-Mashie neighborhood of Jamestown, then make a final stop at the oldest hotel in Accra, now an atmospheric ruin at the water's edge.

Discover Accra's rich creative and cultural heritage on a 3-hour, small-group walking tour of the city, and meet the artists, craftspeople and artisans who live and work on Ghana's vibrant coast. Watch a shoemaker craft shoes by hand using locally-produced leather, and learn how bakers use traditional clay ovens to produce distinctive crusty loaves. See fishermen sing as they haul in their daily catch then visit a local factory where workers transform scrap metal into ingenious tools, finely-wrought jewelry and works of art.