Experience the splendour of Kintampo, a tourist paradise steeped in history) Okumah Executive Lodge and Conference Centre is located in Kintampo, a town of 50,000 situated, quite literally, in the centre of Ghana. Situated at the northern tip of the Aburi-Kintampo mountain range, Kintampo enjoys a relatively dry and mild climate and a landscape of uncommon beauty. Kintampo is strategically located about 2hours from 3 regional airports in Kumasi, Tamale, and Sunyani. In bygone days, these attributes made it a favourite of the British colonialists. Over the centuries Kintampo has attracted more than just the British. It has welcomed migrants and settlers from all over Ghana and West Africa, making it one of the most multi-ethnic and cosmopolitan towns of any of comparable size in the country. Since colonial days, Kintampo has been a major hub for public health training and research. For decades it was the headquarters of the Medical Field Unit (MFU) and School of Hygiene of the Ministry of Health. Out of the ashes of these now defunct institutions have blossomed the College of Health and Welbeing (now the Kintampo campus of the University of Cape Coast) and the world-renowned Kintampo Health Research Centre, one of three international health research centres in Ghana. These teaching and research facilities, coupled with the 100-bed district hospital, consolidate Kintampo’s reputation as a public health hub in Ghana.
Kintampo is home to some of the most visited tourist sites in Ghana. The Kintampo Falls and Fuller's Falls, two scenic waterfalls attract thousands of visitors from all over the world each year. Kintampo is also 45 minutes drive from the Fiema monkey sanctuary and less than two hours away from the Mole Game Park, Ghana's largest game reserve, where elephants and other rare animals roam freely. The Bui Dam and National Park, where rare hippopotamus and Columbus monkeys can be sighted, is also within driving distance.
For pre-history and archeology buffs, Kintampo should hold a special attraction. Archeologists have identified Kintampo as the centre of the so-called Kintampo complex, a period in prehistory that saw the transition to sedentism in West Africa, specifically Ghana and parts of eastern Côte d'Ivoire that began sometime between 2500-1400 BCE. Kintampo complex marks a significant change in food production techniques due to the transition from nomadic hunter-gather lifestyles to life in stationary settlements. Ceramic sculptures of humans and animals unearthed by archeologists indicate that the Kintampo settlements were lived at by practitioners of both pastoralism and horticulture. Another notable aspect of the Kintampo complex is the creation of art and items of personal adornment. Archaeologists have found polished stone beads, bracelets and figurines in addition to typical stone tools and structures such as hand axes, and building foundations which suggests that these people had both a complex society and were well-learned in Later Stone Age technologies.
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