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Educational Tours
Educational Tours Across West Africa
Our Educational Tours are designed to provide meaningful, curriculum-based learning experiences across West Africa, with a strong focus on Ghana, where Ashanti African Tours has extensive experience hosting international schools, colleges, and universities. Each programme is tailor-made in collaboration with your study coordinators, professors, or teachers to ensure educational goals are fully met.
We offer a wide range of learning opportunities, including educational and cultural exchange programmes, community service trips, rural immersion, and environmental study tours. From cultural heritage and conservation to local governance and sustainable development, every itinerary is designed to blend classroom objectives with real-world insight.
Our dedicated team provides full support, from pre-travel planning to on-the-ground coordination, covering accommodation, transportation, logistics, and safety. We hold all necessary insurance and prioritise student wellbeing at every stage. With expert local guides and access to schools, NGOs, and government institutions, our tours create a safe, inspiring, and transformative learning experience in West Africa.
If you’re unable to find a tour that meets all of your requirements, don’t worry, we can design a tour thats perfect for you. Allow our team to design your trip of a lifetime – Tailor-Made Tours
Ghana Ankasa Conservation School Trip
Hands-on rainforest conservation and community engagement adventure
10 Days
Ghana Fairtrade Beads, Cocoa and Conservation School Trip
From cocoa farms to rainforest wildlife - a sustainable learning journey
10 Days
Ghana Bonkro and Breku School Trip
Immersive cultural exchange and conservation learning in rural Ghana
7 Days
Ghana Bonkro and Ankasa Cocoa and Conservation School Trip
Discover Ghana’s Wildlife, Cocoa Farms & Cultural Heritage
14 Days
Transportation and Logistics
Our extensive network of quality, well serviced and maintained vehicles are carefully selected to meet your exact needs.
If you require 4×4’s for wildlife excursions, minibus, bus or larger coach for bigger groups we have what you need. Vehicles go through a standard safety check prior to the arrival of all our groups. Safety of the group is our priority and our experienced drivers are focused and do not take risks. Our experience and local knowledge in West Africa also ensure the logistics of the trip run smoothly, knowing drive times between locations of interest, selecting the best places to eat, identifying the right accommodation for your budget, assigning the most qualified guide for your group, arranging excursions, classrooms, meetings and special events. Ensuring the smooth running of our trips is our job and we are good at it.
Accommodation
Choosing the best accommodation for your budget that is safe, ideally located and offering all the amenities for your group is important for the success of any trip.
Our team carefully select the accommodation that fits your needs, if you are looking for safe, clean budget accommodation with dormitories or your students budget stretches to more luxurious hotels we can secure these for you at good rates. Many years working with our service providers here in West Africa has allowed us to develop excellent relationships of trust. Prior to our groups arriving at their accommodations one of our team members would have already checked your rooms and started the check in process ensuring vital time is not wasted when checking in large groups.
Meetings and Special Event Planning
After listening to your aims and objectives for your groups trip to Ghana our team then start to make all the necessary arrangements locally for you.
Setting up meetings and arranging special events with government institutions, NGO’s, educational institutions, industry, religious organisations in addition to securing classrooms for your students, equipment and materials required for practical sessions are all our responsibility. Coordinating environmental and community service programmes is also an area we are highly experienced, and our company also have our own conservation and community projects we can share with you.
Risk Assessment and Safety Planning
The most important aspect of any group we host here in Ghana is undoubtedly safety of students, staff and assessing the risks of all aspects of the trip ensuring everyone returns home safely after an exceptional experience.
It is important we comply with the law and ensure we operate legally. Meticulously looking into all elements of the proposed trip to identify hazards, evaluating these, and taking the necessary precautions is an important part of our pre trip planning. Local up to date knowledge, evacuation plans, vehicle safety checks, medical kits, competent staff, 24/7 emergency contacts are just a small selection of the measures we take. In addition, all our local leaders and guides have passed advanced first aid training and are certificated by the West African Rescue Association.
Pre and Post Travel Support
From the moment you first contact us to after you have returned home, we are on hand to advise and support you in all aspects of your proposed travel to West Africa.
Our travel team are always on hand and happy to assist in any capacity, from advice on travel insurance, visas, vaccinations, essential packing list, cultural orientation, flights and much more. Never feel you are disturbing us with too many emails, it is our job to ensure you are well prepared prior to travel and then all you have to do is sit back, relax and enjoy the experience.
Environmental and Community Service Coordination
Ashanti African Tours take our environmental and social responsibility very seriously which can be seen through the many projects we have established and funded here in Ghana.
If you already have a service programme you would like to incorporate into your time here, we are on hand to make all the connections and arrangements for you. Alternatively, you are welcome to choose one of our many projects we have established that range from education, construction, environmental conservation, health, sport, agriculture, and youth training programmes. To date Ashanti have donated over $135,000.00 USD to our conservation and community connection projects. Our wide selection of projects has something for everyone, if you want to be part of a reforestation project planting indigenous trees, helping train locals in beekeeping, building hand washing facilities for schools or constructing a medical centre for communities in need the options are endless.
Building schools, protecting rainforest, having a sustainable positive impact locally
Ashanti would like to think most educational institutions that travel to Ghana care about the locations they visit and about having a positive impact during their time here.
Booking with a responsible travel company goes a long way to achieving this. Many companies state they benefit locals and conservation when they do extraordinarily little and are more focused on their profit margins. Ashanti are West Africa’s leading travel company putting their profits back into building schools, protecting wildlife, rainforest, biodiversity and connecting communities to the conservation of their environment through community development initiatives connected to eco-tourism. Click to learn more about where our profits go.
Award-Winning Local Guides
At Ashanti, we believe the guide makes the difference. Our full-time team of award-winning local experts are not only highly trained and professional but also warm, personable, and passionate about sharing their culture. With deep personal connections to the places you visit, they open doors to experiences you would never find on your own. Their knowledge, energy, and enthusiasm ensure every moment of your journey is meaningful and enjoyable.Our guides look forward to welcoming you to West Africa and creating memories that last a lifetime.
Tailor-Made Educational Tours
At Ashanti, we specialise in creating fully customised tours designed around your exact interests. Whether you are a researcher, school or university group, solo traveler, couple, family, friends, or a travel agent arranging a private trip, our experienced team will design the perfect itinerary for you.From cultural and historical excursions to research trips, voluntary work, or wildlife-focused tours, we adapt every journey to your goals. We can even include personal locations of interest to make your trip unique. With a team of expert local guides covering a wide range of specialties, we offer tours of any duration and budget, ensuring the ideal balance of experiences.Contact us for a Senegal adventure crafted around what matters most to you.
Encouraging learning through safe exploration and active participation, focusing on engaging students, challenging them to think critically helps make them active learners.
Award Winning Tours Across West Africa
Ethically arranged, locally guided, authentic tours that benefit locals and the environment
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