City: Volta Region
Top Things to do in Volta Region
What to do and see in Volta Region, Ghana: The Best Places and Tips
Volta Region (or Volta), is one of Ghana's ten administrative regions, with Ho designated as its capital. It is located west of Republic of Togo and to the east of Lake Volta. Divided into 25 administrative districts, the region is multi-ethnic and multilingual, including groups such as the Ewe, the Guan, and the Akan peoples. The Guan peoples include the Lolobi, Likpe, Akpafu, Buem, and Nkonya people, et al.
Restaurants in Volta Region
1. Wli Waterfalls
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 122 reviews
Reviewed By bless k
Enjoyed every bit of the journey to the lower falls. Getting to the upper falls is tough; better be prepared with boots and lots of water. They could do more with clearing the pathways and providing rest beds by the falls for a confortable relaxation. Camping by the falls should be encouraged. This should be provided by the authorities.
2. Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 48 reviews
Reviewed By Connoisseur-of-Life - Mississauga, Canada
What to say about this attraction? The Mona monkeys are the carrot that brings eco and other tourists to this village where locals act as guides. First stop after paying fees is a roadside stand where you buy the bananas to feed the monkeys while you take the trophy photos. It is admittedly a lot of fun with lots of laughter. The visitor influx does feed into the local economy as well as the mouths of the very cute primates. The sanctuary protects the monkeys but a brief walk through the village illustrates the limits of the economic benefits to this community.
3. Mt. Gemi
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 7 reviews
Reviewed By satoshi0414 - Hyougo
It has the unique scenic view nature could ever give standing at the top, you can see the Volta Lake from a distance and the surrounded villages and unique landscape.
There is a certain iron-cross on the top of mountain GEMI that is four meters in height has been constructed by German.
Its about 20min walk from base to the top.
Its good hiking!
4. Holy Trinity Spa & Health Farm
Overall Ratings
4 based on 14 reviews
Reviewed By P N A
worth a try. The health and wellness component is great so is the food, especially the 1 man 1000.
Management must work on improving state of maintenance of entire facility.
5. Tafi Abuife Kente Village
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 3 reviews
Reviewed By William O - Accra, Ghana
We went for the weaving - my wife and mother-in-law are both accomplished weavers - and came away with a real feel for the people (and small piles of exceptional authentic Kente cloth - not the batik being passed off as Kente on-line). We started with a tour of the village, where many houses have permanent looms set up outside, and spent a long time talking with the master master-weaver. We ended up in the factory - a large single-room building with portable looms stretched down both long sides - which was largely empty on a Sunday morning, but we did watch a bit more weaving, while having single, double, and triple weaving explained to us (I think it boils down to one, two, or three shuttles simultaneously passing the thread back and forth, but it also has implications for the type of patterns they will weave). The guys in the factory were tremendously helpful in selecting compatible patterns, and advising on how much to buy and where to take the cloth to have our clothing made.
We had earlier chosen to see "just" the drumming and dancing performance. What could have been brief and ratty turned out to be nearly 45 minutes of intense drumming (three drums, with different drummers rotating in and out) and dancing. The performers were backed by a couple score of villagers who sang along with some of the dances. The quality of dancers was mixed - they aren't professionals after all - but the emotion and authenticity could not be questioned. We were separately drug out for mercifully brief stints on the dance floor, and the bystanders were merciful in their appraisal.
It was a village experience, and the children were absolutely mesmerized by my video screen, so they crowded around my chair, and they were incredibly adorable. You may never have seen such joy as when I video'ed them with the monitor turned that they could see themselves. We plan to return and do a homestay in the village, maybe get to try our hands at weaving. Highly recommended.
6. Ote Falls
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 3 reviews
Reviewed By satoshi0414 - Hyougo
It is about 80m tall.
Ote falls formed naturally on a canyon-rock.
In my case i saw cameleon on the way to waterfall.Its really pretty.
Ote waterfall is located the Eastern part of Amedzofe which is close to Ho city.
You can reach Amedzofe from Ho to take a local taxi by 40min.
After that it would approximarely takes the visitor about 30min walk getting there.
7. Travel Volta Tours
Overall Ratings
5 based on 1 reviews
Reviewed By Nicolas D - Antwerp, Belgium
If you're looking for something alternative, with a very local touch, this is the guy you want to go with.
The tour guide (the only one in the company) is a very nice guy with lots of information. He took me to both the known places and the places I would never have found on my own.
Very much recommended!
8. Fort Prinzenstein
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 3 reviews
Reviewed By PietroMorrizio - Accra, Ghana
Fort Prinzenstein is a former Danish Fort located at Keta, in the Volta Region of Ghana, which has it's origins as Fort Singelenburgh, built in 1734 by the Dutch, but the fort was abandoned just three years later. It was later fully developed into the fort that largely exists today by the Danes in 1784, and the Danes sold the fort on to the British in 1850.
The modern day Fort Prinzenstein is largely a ruin, particularly to the sea-facing front of the building, which was destroyed by flooding & storms in 1980. The entire front of the fort looks more like it was subject to artillery fire, although a reasonably new breakwater was constructed that adds another 50m to the land in front of the fort, and in theory, should protect the remains of the castle (however, the whole township of Keta is low-lying, and at risk of being taken by the sea).
However, despite the front of the structure, there is still theoretically a tour that can be arranged. However, when my fiancee & I arrived, we couldn't find any caretaker to take us around, even though we were there prior to the "close" of the fort at 4pm. Therefore, do not bank on access to the inside of the fort - the best I managed was a photograph through a gap in the entrance gate.
It should be pointed out that east of Accra, there are only a few forts - Fort Prinzenstein, plus two other ruins of forts at the towns of Prampram & Old Ningo, so there are really no intact forts in eastern Ghana. For that reason, I would not visit Keta purely to see Fort Prinzenstein - I would recommend that unless you are specifically going to Keta (which is a nice enough town, which also offers bird-watching), or you are in nearby Aflao/Denu (about 20km away on the Ghana-Togo border), then you might be inclined to skip a visit to Fort Prinzenstein. However, if you are interested in the history of the old forts of Ghana (as I am), then it is probably worth seeing, providing you know ahead of travelling that the site is not intact.
