Kumasi Kejetia Market Tour & Local Cooking Class

You shop for ingredients at Africa's largest market, then cook them in someone's kitchen.

A five-hour experience in Kumasi that pairs a guided tour of Kejetia Central Market, where you buy ingredients alongside locals, with a private cooking class at a family home. You'll prepare and eat three traditional Ghanaian dishes: fufu with peanut soup, ampesi with garden egg stew, and banku with okra stew. The tour includes transportation, a live English-speaking guide, bottled water, and all ingredients for cooking. Children from age 10 are welcome.

The Experience

The day starts at Kejetia Central Market, the largest in West Africa, where you move through stalls with a local guide and buy the exact ingredients you'll cook with later. This is not a walk-past-and-observe tour. You're selecting what goes into your pot, learning what locals choose and why, and understanding the rhythm of the market as a place where people actually shop. The guide handles the navigation and the negotiation. You handle the choosing.

After the market, you head to a local family's home for the cooking class. There's no demonstration kitchen or instructor standing apart. You're in their space, working alongside them to prepare fufu and peanut soup, ampesi with stew, and banku with okra. The ingredients you bought are the ones you cook with. When the food is ready, you sit and eat it together, the way the family does every day. Transportation and a bottle of water are included throughout.

The five-hour window is tight enough to fit both the market and the cooking into one morning or afternoon, but long enough that neither feels rushed. Infants and small children can come along in a stroller or car seat.

What’s included

• Transportation from your pickup point.
• live guide speaking English.
• bottled water.
• all ingredients for the three dishes you'll cook.
• the cooking class at a local family home.
• the meal itself when it's ready.

Days and timesDaily · 09:30

Ages30 to 75 years · 18 to 28 years · 10 to 16 years · Under 10 — No ticket type: can't be added to a booking

Meeting point and pickupPickup optional · ends where it starts5 pickup points to choose from.Meeting point, per the operator: “Travellers will see a fair coloured guy with blue bag at the back at the , Golden Tulip Hotel , Rain Tree street ,kumasi”

Cancellation and refundsFree cancellation up to 24h before the start. After that, no refund.It may be canceled due to bad weather. If that happens, you're offered another date or a refund.

Prices and times updated 3 days ago

Good to know

Stroller friendlyInfant seats available

Operated by Bilson Tours Gh

Is this one for you?The five-hour commitment means you can fit this into a morning or afternoon without losing the rest of your day, but it's long enough that both the market and the cooking class have room to breathe instead of feeling like a quick stop.

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Top questions

Can children come?

18 to 28 years; 10 to 16 years. Under 10: no ticket type, they can't be added to a booking.

What happens if it rains?

It may be canceled due to bad weather. If that happens, you're offered another date or a refund. Free cancellation up to 24h before the start.

What is Kejetia Central Market like when I get there?

Kejetia Central Market is the largest market in West Africa, with stalls selling produce, spices, dried fish, meat and everything else Ghanaian cooks need. You'll walk through it with a local guide who shows you where to find what you're looking for and how locals shop there.

Do I cook the food myself, or watch someone else make it?

You cook it yourself at the family's home, working in their kitchen with the ingredients you bought at the market. The family is there cooking alongside you, not demonstrating from a distance.

What dishes will I learn to make?

You'll prepare three traditional Ghanaian dishes: fufu with peanut soup, ampesi (boiled yam, cocoa yam and plantain) with garden egg stew, and banku with okra stew. All ingredients are provided as part of the experience.

How long does the whole thing take?

The experience runs five hours total, covering both the market tour and the cooking class at the family home.