Colonial Hills
Aburi Botanical Gardens
Ghana's oldest botanical garden — 160-year-old trees, cool mountain air, and Sunday picnics.
Eastern Region is Ghana's forested highlands — where British colonists came to escape the heat, where Ghana's cocoa story was born, and where the country's largest dam tamed the Volta River into a lake you can see from space.
Eastern Region is where the air changes — where the coastal heat gives way to forested hills, where Ghana's first botanical gardens were planted by colonial horticulturists, and where the country's cocoa industry quietly put Ghana on the global map. It's a region of dams, rivers, waterfalls, and mornings so cool you need a jumper.
Spend a day at Aburi Gardens. Hike to the twin Boti Falls. Stand under Umbrella Rock. Visit the Tetteh Quarshie Cocoa Farm, where the seeds of Ghana's chocolate economy were first planted in 1879. Or cruise the vast, still waters of Lake Volta from Akosombo — a dam so transformational it reshaped the whole country.
Ghana's oldest botanical garden — 160-year-old trees, cool mountain air, and Sunday picnics.
Two waterfalls side by side — said to be male and female — and a legend every Ghanaian child knows.
A mushroom-shaped rock and a cascading waterfall — hike to both in a single morning.
The original 1879 farm where Ghana's cocoa industry began — taste cocoa straight off the pod.
Walk the dam wall that created the world's largest man-made reservoir by surface area.
Weekly market in Somanya — handmade Krobo glass beads you'll find nowhere else on earth.
Our Volta River Adventure pairs Akosombo Dam, Adomi Bridge, and Shai Hills into one unforgettable day from Accra. More Eastern tours coming soon.
From hillside lodges in Aburi to lakeside resorts at Akosombo — Eastern Region's stays are the ones you stay longer than you planned.
Browse All Stays →Our Eastern Region specialists will build you a slow, green itinerary — gardens, waterfalls, cocoa farms, and lake mornings. Custom tours welcomed.
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