Have you ever imagined yourself escaping from the technological and materialistic city or urban life styles for re-connection to lost native and traditional values, quietness and sober reflections?
Have you ever desired to combine your vacation with doing impactful social, cultural, philanthropic, humanitarian and economic development engagements?
Experience of a different culture, tradition, lifestyle, diversity, history, environment, people and community is as unique and personal as fingerprints. It's your turn now to carve your own unique and personal fingerprints of the unparalleled culture, traditions, lifestyles, diversity, history, environment, people and communities of Ghana. Taking you to the heart beat of Ghana’s internationally recognized extremely hospitable, friendly and courteous people and communities, authentic and exotic native and indigenous culture and traditions is what Native and Indigenous Culture Exploits (NICE) does best. An excellent opportunity for cultural and philanthropy enthusiasts to spend their vacation or holidays living with host families in rural communities to experience and appreciate the rudiments of rural survival instincts, importance of community sharing, inter-dependencies and simplicity, reconnect with nature, rediscover spirituality or self-consciousness, regain serenity and strength whilst improving on intercultural relations and diversity management skills through engagement in grassroots and indigenous community activities and programs to achieve an impactful pro-poor social, cultural, economic and humanitarian good through home-stays.
We are experts in offering meticulously selected home-stay residence where cultural and philanthropic enthusiasts live with remarkably hospitable, friendly and courteous host families. Living with a host family is the ideal way to meeting indigenous and native people to understand and experience another culture, tradition, history, life styles and discovery of local gastronomy, drinks and products from those who knows it best.
The package also facilitates cultural visitations to famous palaces, traditional councils and shrines to experience the intricate traditional court systems of ad judicature and settling of disputes and even of detecting crime. Other activities include experiencing and participating in traditional cultural practices and norms such as festivals, drumming and dancing, funeral, child naming, marriage, farming and cooking. An attempt to learn a local dialect will be cool, awesome and fun. Further, its provides unique moments for engaging in pro-poor and vulnerable social, humanitarian and economic development activities including, but not limited to health/medical service, teaching, child care, technical/vocational skills development, community development projects, sports development and au/demi pair.
This program also provide international onsite/in home country training and teaching of Ghanaian native and indigenous traditional and cultural drumming, dancing, story telling, drama and artistic performance for international schools, groups and community organizations.
We deliver an intense immersion in the history, culture, traditions and way of life of the Ghanaian people. Certainly, this package offers superb moments to participate and fully engage in Ghanaian culture, traditions, history, gastronomy and lifestyles at the grassroots level. Undoubtedly, multiculturalism has become one of the most touted quality human and interpersonal relations attributes in the 21st century and key employable skill assets in an increasingly globalized world. This is a perfect atmosphere to acquire and improve intercultural relations competences and diversity management skills.
Fantastic Cultural Immersion: unique experience of Ghana’s nativities and traditions
Authentic Culture: Agbadza, an immaculate native cultural dance that test your sportiness and flexibility
Spectacular Festivals: wide range of colorful durbars of kings, queens and people of diverse ethnicitie
Superb Native Cousins: apim ampesie with kontomre abom, irresistible for the health conscious tourists
Call this grassroots cultural diplomacy and you would be spot-on!
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Itinerary
Kra Travel's itinerary isn’t the conventional or traditional itinerary, it absolutely represent a major paradigm shift. Instead of pre-selected sites or attractions by organizers, customers are allowed to fully engage and participate in this key touch point of the customer journey. The ultimate goal is to give full and extended meaning to the concept of experience co-creation.
It’s also a rare opportunity for customers to interact directly with team Kra Travel on best sites and attractions that suit their needs and expectations, and a unique space to begin honest discussions about customers’ needs, wants and expectations, believing that this helps to create a sense of ownership, commitment and how we build a pulsating experience together.
Kra Travel itinerary concept is influenced by the following key factors:
Experience Co-creation (customization and democratization): Dialogue with customers in the choice of sites and attractions within a package after booking or reservation, which helps to create symbiotic relationships, a sense of involvement and ownership that ultimately lead to higher levels of commitment and trust.
Spontaneity: Flexibility in choosing sites and attractions in real-time, changes the status quo by avoiding the traditional or conventional and static tour operator pre-selected sites and attractions approach.
Suspense: Attractions can be decided on the move increasing anxiety about the next surprise that ultimately generate that awesome and unique "WOW" effects.
In fulfillment of, and conformity with our itinerary strategy, philosophy and culture, collaborative brainstorming processes with customers will be organized for the choice of sites and attractions for each day of activities and experiences.
Cultural experience options on offer include but not limited to hands-on indulgence in meticulously selected authentic native, indigenous and traditional lifestyles. These include once in a life-time opportunity to be En-stooled or En-skined as a community queen mother or chief, participation in, and taste of diverse folkloric legendary story telling (Kweku Ananse Nsem), festivals, music, languages, drumming or dancing learning, farming, cooking, cousins and drinks, visits to palaces, traditional councils, family houses, shrines, ancestral homes and personalities for observation of religious and spiritual practices, systems and processes of dispute resolution, adjudication and even of detecting crime, adaptation of a local name, naming and marriage ceremonies and funeral rites, educational and familiarization tours to institutions, organizations, sites and attractions such as the national theater, museums of arts and culture, school of performing arts (university of Ghana), centres for national culture, kente weaving, wood carving, beads and pottery making, arts and craft centers, markets, towns and communities.
Other meticulously earmarked diverse authentic, iconic and exotic culture, traditions and places that come in handy, fascinating and irresistible options will also be made available during the collaborative brainstorming processes with customers.
Ideal/Typical Itinerary
Day one (1): Arrival, airport or bus terminal courtesies, transfer to accommodation facility, optional brief icebreaker or social, intercultural and diversity unwinding if time permits, retire to bed
Day two (2): Briefing and exchange of pleasantries, questions and answers time, travel to selected sites and attractions for start of the day's activities, optional evening social, intercultural and diversity unwinding depending on time availability, retire to bed
Day three (3): Briefing and exchange of pleasantries, questions and answers time, tour begins with visit to agreed attractions, return to base, submission of comments, complaints and/or compliments, general reflections on the day’s activities, optional evening social, intercultural and diversity unwinding depending on time availability, retire to bed
Day four (4): Briefing and exchange of pleasantries, questions and answers time, visiting of agreed attractions continues, return to base, submission of comments, complaints and/or compliments, general reflections on the day’s activities, optional evening social, intercultural and diversity unwinding depending on time availability, retire to bed
Day five (5): Briefing and exchange of pleasantries, questions and answers time, touring of agreed attractions continues, return to base, submission of comments, complaints and/or compliments, general reflections on the day’s activities, optional evening social, intercultural and diversity unwinding depending on time availability, retire to bed
Day six (6): Briefing and exchange of pleasantries, questions and answers time, wind-up activities including catch-ups, return to Accra if applicable, accommodation check-in, optional evening social, intercultural and diversity unwinding depending on time availability, retire to bed
Day seven (7): Briefing and exchange of pleasantries, questions and answers time, minor tours within Accra, collection of general feedback and reflections on experience and impact of activities, debriefing, transfer to airport, final social, intercultural and diversity unwinding if time permits and departure
Family or Community Immersive Option
Day one (1): Arrival, airport or bus terminal courtesies, transfer to accommodation facility, optional brief icebreaker or social, intercultural and diversity unwinding if time permits, retire to bed
Day two (2): Briefing and exchange of pleasantries, questions and answers time, transfer to host family or community, ceremonial introduction, induction and/or integration into host family or community
Day two to five (2 to 5): Living with host family and/or community, daily welfare check or follow-up calls for comments, complaints and/or compliments
Day six (6): Wind up activities with host family or community, return to Accra if applicable, accommodation check-in, optional evening social, intercultural and diversity unwinding if time permits, retire to bed
Day seven (7): Briefing and exchange of pleasantries, questions/answers time, minor tours within Accra, collection of general feedback and reflections on experience and impact of activities, debriefing, transfer to airport, final social, intercultural and diversity unwinding if time permits and departure
Notable traditional cultural festivals which are celebrated annually to commemorate land mark historical achievements such as bumper harvest, triumphant wars, purification and migration of ethnic groups within Ghana to be indulge in while on holiday or vacation in Ghana are presented below for the perusal of the culturally inclined tourists:
- Fao Festival (Paga)
- Edina Buronya (Elmina)
- Papa Festival (Kumawu)
- Feok Festival (Sandema)
- Kabili Festival (Sankana)
- Fetu Afahye (Cape Coast)
- Bakatue Festival (Elmina)
- Apoo Festival (Techiman)
- Asafotufiam Festival (Ada)
- Aboakyer Festival (Winneba)
- Hogbetsotso Festival (Anloga)
- Yaa Asantewaa Festival (Ejisu)
- Paragliding Festival (Nkawkaw)
- Masquerade Festival (Winneba)
- Akwantukese Festival (Koforidua)
- Kloyo Sikplemi festival (Somanya)
- Akwantutenten Festival (Worawora)
- Adaekese /Akwasidae Festival (Kumasi)
- Tingana Festival (Arigu - Northern Region)
- Odwira Festival (Akropong/Akuapem towns)
- Akwanbo (Towns/Villages within Agona district)
- The Big Six (B6) Cultural Festival (under development)
- National Festival of Art and Culture – NAFAC (National)
- Homowo Festival (Greater Accra/Ga Traditional Council)
- Pan-African Festival of Art and culture – PANAFEST (National)
Note:
All conditions relative to international onsite/in home country training and teaching of Ghanaian native and indigenous traditional and cultural drumming, dancing, story telling, drama and artistic performance are subject to negotiations and not part of those listed above.
