Meeting with your driver guide at your hotel and road to Yamoussoukro. Little stop during the way and arrival after around 2 hours. Yamoussoukro, situated at 240 km from Abidjan is the Administrative Capital of Ivory Coast since 1983.
You will visit one of the biggest places of Christian Worship with the “Notre-Dame de la Paix” Basilica. Built on 130 hectares and endowed with 8400 m2 of the stained-glass windows, the Basilica overtakes 17m to the original “Saint- Pierre” of Roma. After the Basilica, you will visit the Adja Swa museum which is the most important museum of the country where you will find masks, musical instruments, Baoulé’s statues.
After the lunch in local restaurant “Maquis”, road to the crocodile pool surrounding the presidential palace. Visit of a mosque and the Houphouët Boigny’s foundation.
President Félix Houphouët-Boigny decided to give to the international community and the institutions of search for peace generally and in particular Unesco, the Foundation which bears its name, to contribute at the international level, in the search, in the protection, in the preservation and in the promotion of the peace in Africa and in the world ".
Departure for a city tour of Abidjan. Visit down town, the Cocody’s Cathedral with his residential area and handicraft center, possibility of shopping at C.A.V.A. After the lunch at a typical restaurant, you will cross Henri Konan Bedié’s bridge for the departure to Grand Bassam in the afternoon. Grand Bassam is a UNESCO World Heritage.
The first capital of Ivory Coast is located 43 kms from Abidjan. Situated between Atlantic Ocean and Ebrié Laguna, you will visit the French colonial district with his wooden houses, the “Musée des Costumes” which was the governor palace before the independence. This museum holds an important collection of traditional costumes. After you have a stop at the handcrafts shops of Grand Bassam.