You will have a one of a kind experience while you are on Ashanti Brass Casting Tour, Ghana. These Ghana tours are eco-friendly and it also supports communities, protect wildlife as well as many cultural traditions which are followed by several ethnic groups living in Ghana. You will travel to areas which are rarely traveled by tourists. You will have a first hand experience about life and people in Ghana in these places. The Ashanti Brass Casting Tour, Ghana is one such tour in this country which will bring you in direct contact with the people living here and their own different lifestyles.
While on Ashanti Brass Casting Tour in Ghana you will work with the brass casters who belong to Krofrom. Out here you will acquire the ancient West African skills of lost wax brass casting. These techniques were utilized to make eleventh century bronze heads in Nigeria as well as the renowned sixteenth century Benin Bronzes which is at present placed in the British Museum.
The guests have to stay for some days with the villagers and attain personal tuitions. Out here you will learn to make traditional frames like the catfish, crocodile, turtle and monkey. After this training you can make your own original frames out of beeswax. First you have to make a mould, and then cast it in brass in the charcoal furnace. Your own brass figure will be ready once this process ends.
A number of tour operators present in this country arrange this tour for the travelers and tourists from within the country and the world. The best time to go on this tour is during January, April, August, October or December. You can pick and choose any month according to your own convenience. The guests can also take back the finished work with them. This tour is perfect for both novice artists as well as craftsmen. The Things to do in Ghana include the Cultural Tours in Ghana which will make your trip to this country a unique one.
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