Ghana - West Africa
Surf Tours In Ghana
ACCOMMODATION
Errant Surf Holidays has partnered with local hotels, inns and hostels to offer a unique traveling and accommodation experience. Included in this tour package is a variety of options to meet your surfing, accommodation, and cuisine needs. For four of your seven nights during your surf adventure you will have a number of accommodation options. The remaining three nights will be spent near remote fishing villages where the entire tour group will eat and sleep at one of our selected unique accommodations. This includes one night at a secluded bungalow on a private bay, another in a beautiful well kept 16th century fort, and then at an eco-lodge that even offers scuba diving! A description of each of the accommodations and itinerary is provided below.
Here are some pictures of the different accommodation options for our surf camp. The Dadson Lodge will also soon have a website. Unfortunately, there is are no websites for the bungalows at Sankofa and Kobi’s in Busua or for Fort Freidrichsburg in Prince’s Town . However, as you can see from the pictures below, the rooms at the bungalows and the fort are very basic and perfect for the adventure backpacker or traveler on a budget!
First 3 nights:
The first three nights will be spent in Busua. There are four options available for accommodations in Busua, all of which are within a two minutes walk to the surf shop. During the first three days we will travel by boat to one of four nearby surf spots, the rest of the days can be spent surfing the various sized beach breaks in Busua.
Night 4:
The fourth day the tour group travel by boat to the fishing village of Akwidaa. Here you will sleep and dine at the newly completed Ezile Bay Village, located on a small bay and featuring private huts and an spacious restaurant, which all operating on solar power. You will have the option of surfing several known spots and exploring new ones during our trip to Akwidaa. A five minute walk from Ezile Bay Village is Black Star Beach, a beach break with both lefts and rights. A great place for late afternoon or early morning surf!
Night 5:
Day 5 will be spent traveling from Akwidaa to Prince’s Town. If the waves aren’t too big, we will spend the night at Fort Gross Friedrichsburg, a 17th century slave fort that is unique for Ghana as it is the only fort in the country built by Germans. The fort lies above the village on a predominant point with views of the surfable beach and point breaks on both sides. Fort Friedrichsburg is very basic and does not have electricity, but we think the adventures of sleeping in a castle will more than make up for this! On our way to Prince’s Town we will surf at Cape Three Points and other known and unknown spots along the way. Once in Prince’s town you will be able to choose from the river mouth break or point breaks that surround the Fort. In the event that the waves are too big to land in Prince’s Town (not a common occurrence) we will surf Prince’s Town in the afternoon and travel to Miemia, which has a more protected bay. In this scenario we would spend the night at Kedas Lodge in Miemia.
Night 6:
On Day 6 we will travel from Prince’s Town to Miemia. We will have the opportunity to surf in Prince’s town in the morning and then travel by boat to the far side of the village, where there is a nice reef break. We will then continue on to Mutrakni Point, where there are well regarded left and right point breaks. Mutrakni point is perhaps the best left break in all of Ghana. We will spend the night at Kedas Lodge, which offers new apartment-like accommodations with comfortable lofts and uses alternative technology with its solar power and rain catchment water system. The bay is well protected and offers a great place to swim or take advantage of the scuba gear that is available for rent at the lodge.
Night 7:
In the morning of Day 7 we will travel back and surf Mutrakni Point or Prince’s town and make arrangement to be picked up in either Prince’s Town or Miemia. We will then travel back to Busua. On our last night in Busua you will be treated to a lobster dinner at the Okorye Tree Restaurant (located on the beach next to our surf shop) and the chance to enjoy a bonfire complete with a traditional dance and drumming troupe. You will stay at the hotel, lodge, inn, or bungalow that you stayed on your fist three nights on this last night of the tour.
TRANSPORT
Transport will be provided from Accra’s international airport to Busua Beach, a 3-4 hour ride on a paved road. This service will not be provided back to Accra as many of our guests choose to visit other parts of Ghana before they return to Accra. However, if you are headed back to Accra after attending our surf tour, we can provide shuttle service for a fee or we will provide you with travel information to ensure a pleasant and safe trip back to Accra and the airport. All transport during your tour is inlcuded in te price.
GROUP SIZE
A minimum of four people are required for our surf tour and a maximum of seven. The maximum number is to ensure adequate space on our boat for you, your gear, the guides, the boat crew and supplies (including your lunches!).
FLIGHTS
Errant Surf Holidays cannot book international or internal flights on your behalf. However, on making your reservation, we will provide you with full details of the cheapest and/or most suitable flights for your international route. You should expect to pay around £500 for the cheapest London-Accra return flight.
VACCINATIONS
Malaria is widespread and common and anti-malaria pills muat be taken. A Yellow Fever vaccination is compulsory and you should also be up to date with Tetanus and typhoid vaccinations.
