The Itinerary West Africa itineraries
Day-by-day routes through West Africa, each 12 days — with what every trip actually costs.
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Planning a trip to West Africa
Pulled from the route below — so it says what it does, not what a brochure would.
When to go
Nov–Feb — the months this route recommends.
How long you need
Every route here runs 12 days.
What it costs
≈ AED 550 per person per day. Beds, food, getting around and things to do — costed line by line in each guide, not estimated from a daily rate.
Where these routes go: Accra · Cape Coast · Kumasi · Lomé · Togoville · Ouidah · Ganvié · Abomey.
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Best for: The three countries the transatlantic slave trade ran through, and the religion that survived it
West Africa in 12 days: Ghana's forts, Togo's hills and the Vodun coast of Benin
Accra → Cape Coast → Kumasi → Lomé → Togoville → Ouidah → Ganvié → Abomey
Castles on a surf beach that a million people were shipped from, an Ashanti kingdom that fought the British to a standstill, a lake town of twenty thousand on stilts, and the birthplace of a religion that crossed the Atlantic and came back.
Going somewhere near West Africa?
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