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 Our agency, the official travel agency to the Ghana Hang/Paragliding Festival now the Kasapa Hang/Paragliding Festival. This festival was organized by the Ministry of Tourism and Diasporan Relation and the Ghana Tourist Board. For the past years these festival have pulled a crowd to Kwahu, not only the Kwahu's but Ghanaians from all the regions and foreigners who heard about the premier. Gradually the awareness of this festival (adventure sport) is been created and we still reaching out to more countries on our adventure tours. Our agency is a member of the Event committee regarding this festival.
The 2007 Event is slated for Easter Holidays 6 th to the 9 th of April, and will be held at Atibie and Nkawkaw - Ghana .
During the 2007 event there is going to be a competition tasks, and hope this will encourage more pilots to attend. The event is being organized by the Ministry of Tourism of Ghana in order to promote Paragliding & Hang Gliding and at the same time to increase local tourism to the area.
For bookings, contact us on scorpionghana@yahoo.com for your 2007 Festival Tour Package . This year's festival falls on the 50th Anniversary of Ghana's Independence ; the golden jubilee celebration will also commemorate the 200th anniversary of the end of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
Tandem or solo Para gliders and hang gliders pilots are welcome for the competition too.
For more information on competition please contact these addresses: Walter Nesar (Coordinator) at: wneser@gmail.com , Scorpion Travel and Tours : scorpionghana@yahoo.com
 We invite you to celebrate with us Ghana 's Golden Jubilee Celebration in 2007; marking 50 years of Ghana 's independence. This celebration takes place during the first week in March. The main highlights of the tour include the Independence Day Parade held at the Black Star Square, which live music entertainment by the Ghanaian military band; there will also be a visit to Ghana's renowned Slave castles, Kakum National Park and a visit to the Ashanti Kingdom And other memorable sites.
Join us as we celebrate the various Special Events taking place in Ghana and its neighboring countries. You will have the opportunity of choosing to participate in the African American History Month tour, Ghana's 50th Independence Celebration taking place in 2007, Traditional Religious Festival Tour, the 200th Emancipation Celebration, the Mali Desert Festival and the Niger River Festival which takes place in Mali, you will also have the alternative of taking part in the upcoming FESPACO Tour taking place in Burkina Faso.
 This tour takes you to the principal streets of Accra, the capital city of Ghana. Visit the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum named after the late Osagyfo Doctor Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana after the British colonial rule. After that, proceed to the Centre for National Culture and Artists Alliance Gallery where a large variety of African handicrafts are displayed and sold.
You can buy all the artwork of your choice. Have lunch at Osikan Restaurant and continue tour to the National Museum with its collection ranging from prehistoric archeological discoveries to colonial antiquities and exhibits of contemporary African arts. A drive through National Theatre, the Conference Centre, the Independent Square site and the Osu Castle being the home of the President of Ghana will add value to the tour.
Try and visit the Dubois Centre for the Pan African Culture and the University of Ghana at Legon would not be left out.
Drive to Aburi Botanical Gardens by the University of Ghana Legon and Abokobi a historical settlement of the Basel German missionaries in the second half of the 19th century to visit this over 100 years botanical garden and explore a world intriguingly green. At Aburi we will walk through the vast floral rich botanical garden. Shop for African handicrafts at the African gift shops in Aburi. We lunch at the Royal Garden Restaurant.Proceed to Larteh, the Akonedi Shrine, and a famous psychic and herbal healing center. Return to Accra.
Drive through Tema, the industrial and habour town, and the mountainous landscape of Shai Hills. Board and take an adventurous cruise to the Dodi Island on the Volta Lake, the largest man-made Lake in the world. On board you be treated with live music. On the island, you will have the chance to view many butterflies and nature. You will return to Accra.
 Depart Accra for Kumasi by Air to the capital of the Ashanti Empire with ancient customs and great Kings. You will tour the cultural center and visit the Prempeh II Museum, the crafts woodshop carvers and brass -smiths. Visit to the war Museum, here is an opportunity to visit four leading Ashanti crafts villages, Bonwire, Anhwiaa, Ntonso and the pottery village still using the old method.
You will continue your tour after you lunch at the Jofel / Sunbeam Restaurant to Okomfo Anokye Sword Site, the Manhyia Palace official residence of the King of Ashanti's. Tour the Palace Museum and the central market, the largest open market in West Africa. Visit the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
Depart to the central region where you will visit the Kakum National Park. The and the only one of its kind in West Africa, it harbours some of the world's most endangered plants and animal spices. Bird watching and discovers species of butterflies.
Conducted tour to Elmina Castle. This magnificent Slave Castle, built in the 1482 by the Portuguese is the oldest and largest European building in the Tropical World.
Protecting the Castle is Fort St. Jago, which is also a World Heritage Monument. You then trek to Cape-Coast for another castle Cape-Coast Castle built in 1657 by the Dutch. Relax and lunch at the Bruenu Beach Restaurant. Return to Accra.
This Fort can be found in one of the twin city Sekondi. The Netherlands used it in 1670 and the British 1872: the fort was converted into a lighthouse. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the coast of Sekondi was a major threatre for European trade competition.
Will visit other forts like the BATENSTEIN in Butre a picturesque village and one of the earliest historic settlements generated by the 17th century inter European and inter African conflicts. METAL CROSS in Dixcove is home of the interesting Fort Metal Cross built in 1680.
For lovers of nature the Western Region possesses a wide range of remarkable natural attraction packages which include eco-tourism, adventure, nature, health and recreational to the nature wanderer and the research visitors. Proceed to visit the Domama Rock Shrine to have a feel of Africa's rituals and works of a long ago civilization.
Visit the unique water village of Nzulezu and Kojokuma. The villagers migrated several centuries ago from Walata a city in the ancient Ghana Empire, which fell in the year 1250. Continue to the home of the great African liberator and first President of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Though his physical remains have been re-interred in Accra the national capital, his mauseleum and the village still welcome visitors' and Pan-Africanist pilgrims.
The waterfall is set in an attractive hilly setting although the fall is seasonal. The waterfall is tucked away in a unique forest reserve of the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana.
This waterfall is about fifty-five minutes to Oworonbong to see the waterfalls. It's very beautiful even when the fall is dried up. This fall is a woman. The path leading to the falls is on the edge of a hilly path, that makes trekking very adventurous, and the attraction there is worth risking.
In the forest reserve at Huhunya near Koforidua is a small, seasonal waterfall known as Boti Falls. The river is best enjoyed between June-August, during the rainy season. In the immediate vicinity of the falls are caves, cascades, and an umbrella rock worth exploring.
There are other waterfalls in the country, which are worth exploring.
The park is the home to small herds of elephants, species of antelopes, variety of monkeys and baboons, hippos and species of birds and other animals. It is accessible by air and road.
Visit the sacred grove, the cradle of Bone civilization. The grove serves as a hideout for the Bone people during the slave trade and inter-tribal wars many years ago. We continue to the only Monastery in Ghana, the Kristo Boase Monastery established by the Catholic Church for the Benedictine monks, with well designed facilities and an attractive landscape setting ideal for religious retreats and conventions.
- One Week Beaches & Hill town
- 14 Days Culture & History Tour
- 11 Days Wilderness Tour
- Pre/Post Summit Tours
- The Treasures of Ashanti Kingdom
- Panafest
- Emancipation
- Recreational Water Sport
- Adventure Tours
- Home Stay
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The Botanical Garden
Kakum - Camping in the Woods & The Canopy Walkway
Kintampo
Mole Park 
