--- title: "Larabanga – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Larabanga, Ghana: Larabanga is a town in West Gonja district, a district in the Savannah Region of Ghana. Nearby: Larabanga Mosque. Every way there from…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/larabanga" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/larabanga.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Larabanga_Mosque05.jpg" --- Town in Savannah Region, Ghana # Larabanga Larabanga is a town in West Gonja district, a district in the Savannah Region of Ghana. ![Larabanga](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Larabanga_Mosque05.jpg) Larabanga · Wikimedia Commons The place Larabanga is a town in West Gonja district, a district in the Savannah Region of Ghana. It is known for its whitewashed adobe Sahelian mosque and it is called Larabanga Mosque, said to date from 1421, and which, having been built at the height of the trans-Saharan trade, is reputed to be Ghana's oldest mosque and houses a copy of the Qur'an almost as old. The Larabanga Mosque is also referred to as 'Mecca of West Africa' Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larabanga), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Larabanga One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Larabanga Mosque The Larabanga Mosque is a mosque built in the Sudanese architectural style in the village of Larabanga, Savanna Region of Ghana. It is the oldest mosque in the country and one of the oldest in West Africa, and has been referred to as the "Mecca of West Africa". 1.8 km · is a mosque built in the Sudanese architectural style in Ghana · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larabanga_Mosque) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Larabanga **Airports:** Yakubu Tali (TML), 114 km · Prempeh I (KMS), 280 km\ - Tamale → Larabanga 114 km · quickest by road, 3h 57m · GH₵75–100 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tamale-to-larabanga) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tamale&to=Larabanga) - Kumasi → Larabanga 283 km · quickest by road, 6h 43m · GH₵190–255 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kumasi-to-larabanga) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kumasi&to=Larabanga) - Accra → Larabanga 447 km · quickest by road, 10h 43m · GH₵325–435 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/accra-to-larabanga) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Accra&to=Larabanga) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Larabanga) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Larabanga Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Larabanga. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Príncipe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/principe) ST 7 ways of moving, 13 sources 1,328 km 2. [Merzouga and Erg Chebbi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/merzouga) MA 8 ways of moving, 41 sources 2,443 km 3. [Santo Antão](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/santo-antao) CV 9 ways of moving, 30 sources 2,669 km 4. [Chefchaouen](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chefchaouen) MA 8 ways of moving, 30 sources 2,907 km 5. [Bwindi Impenetrable National Park](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bwindi) UG 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 3,678 km If you know how people move in Larabanga – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Clarabanga&title=Larabanga&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Flarabanga), and the note gets an entry. [The place page for Larabanga](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/larabanga) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Ghana](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GH) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/larabanga, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt