Ghana holiday, bead making workshop
| country: | Ghana |
| departures: | This trip can be tailormade at any time to suit you in Jan, Apr, Aug, Oct or Dec |
| price: | From £990 (11 days) excluding flights. Price includes day trips to nature reserves, markets and museums |
| vouchers: | Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday |
the amazing things you'll be doing
Eleven day Ashanti bead tour with bead making workshop led by Michael Asumadu of Dabaa.
Sit with the Dabaa beadmakers in their village workshop to learn beadmaking hands on and make your own beads. Look at beads ancient and modern in Kumasi's amazing Central Market. Visit Eastern Region bead-makers and bead market. Day trips to other craft villages, markets and museums.
Sit with the Dabaa beadmakers in their village workshop to learn beadmaking hands on and make your own beads. Look at beads ancient and modern in Kumasi's amazing Central Market. Visit Eastern Region bead-makers and bead market. Day trips to other craft villages, markets and museums.
day-by-day itinerary
| Day 1-2: | Arrival and transfer to hotel. Orientation on health, customs and behaviour, geography and currency: orientation on the culture of Ghana – how to interpret what you see and hear, how to behave and interact; tour of Accra, Ghana's capital. |
| Day 3: | Drive North to Kumasi, through exquisite scenery from the coast up onto the central plateau. Visiting Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary en route. |
| Day 4-7: | Bead making workshops in Dabaa. Tour the village and learn about village life. Explore the bead making process from creating moulds, grinding the glass powder, to design, production and firing. Make your own beads under expert tuition. Start with simple designs. Finish with complex and exquisite individually created beads. Day trips to some of the following: Kente weaving village of Bonwire; wood carving village of Ahwiaa; the magical sacred lake of Bosumtwe; brass casting village of Krofrom; pottery village of Pankronu; Adinkra cloth making village of Ntonsu; Kejetia Central Market, the largest in West Africa; the Cultural Centre with its gardens, arts and craft workers and Museum. |
| Day 8: | Drive East to Koforidua - visit the bead-makers of the Eastern Region. |
| Day 9: | A guided tour of the Cedi beadmakers workshop |
| Day 10: | Morning shopping in Koforidua - return to Accra via the scenic Aburi Gardens |
| Day 11: | Free time in Accra to spend shopping in Makola Market and the Arts Centre, or on the beach before transit to airport, return flight. |
how this holiday makes a difference
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You will work in the village workshops - sometimes outdoors in the shade of a tree, or in the courtyard of a house - and receive tuition directly from the crafts people. Each visit will include a tour of the craft village, and you will have the the opportunity to shop, cook, and eat with the villagers.
Guests are briefed beforehand and on arrival on how to behave and interact eg with regard to greetings, photography, bartering, dress code, etc. The tours allow visitors to appreciate the skills of the indigenous artists and craftspeople, and to interact with them as guests learning from the artists. Guests are encouraged to share their own craft skills. Each tour group will contribute to leave behind a legacy of their presence – such as new tools and workshop facilities. |
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