Northern Ghana Travel Guide

Explore Tamale Tamale offers a gateway to Mole National Park’s safaris; city markets sell red clay pots, smock textiles and shea butter while local Gbewaa chiefs preside over compound ceremonies. Explore Bolgatanga Bolgatanga’s market overflows with leatherwork, straw baskets and hand‑stitched smocks; tourists pass through to visit Paga’s sacred crocodiles, wander mud‑brick Tongo tombs and watch northern potters shaping calabashes on open fires. Explore Wa Wa serves as the Upper West’s administrative hub: the Wa Naa’s palace, lively grain and cattle markets, and access to surrounding villages with mud-brick compounds and seasonal festivals. Explore Larabanga A mud-and-stick 15th‑century mosque anchors Larabanga; visitors come for that mosque, nearby rock formations, and safaris to Mole National Park, plus village markets selling shea and kola nuts. Explore Navrongo Near the White Volta, Navrongo draws visitors to its distinctive mud-built Catholic basilica, weekly markets of shea butter and millet, and nearby Paga crocodile ponds. Explore Bawku Near Ghana’s northeastern border, Bawku is a trading town where cross-border markets, pottery and textile crafts draw visitors. Explore Yendi Northern town known as the traditional seat of the Dagbon kingdom - visit the Yendi Palace, attend Damba celebrations, watch chiefs’ durbars, and browse markets selling smoked fish, shea butter, and woven cloth. Explore Savelugu A dryland town north of Tamale, Savelugu pulses with Dagomba markets, drumming and clan chiefs’ compounds.