Mampong
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About Mampong
Mampong is the administrative capital of the Mampong Municipality in the Ashanti region. In 2021, Mampong had a population of about 117,000 people.
Mampong travel guide
Understand
Mampong is located in a mountainous zone. Ashante Mampong is an educational hub in the Ashanti Region with institutions such as University of Winneba College of Agriculture, Mampong Technical College of Education, St Monica's College of Education, Mampong Nursing and Midwifery Training College, 3 senior high schools and numerous junior high and elementary schools. The chief of the community is the Mamponghene who holds a great chieftaincy title in the Ashanti kingdom.
Getting there
By car Car rentals available going into the Mampong plains.
By bus You can board a bus from Accra through a driving distance of 285 km or any other distant place to Kumasi, the regional capital and then proceed to the Ashanti Mampong.
Getting around
By car Car rentals available going into and at the Mampong plains.
By bus
Eat
1 Mummy's Pub & Restaurant. (updated Dec 2022)
Drink & nightlife
1 Farmers Cave Resort (from the Mampong New Daamang SDA church, Plt 52, Blk A, New Daamang, head south for 1 minute and you will find it on the left). (updated Jan 2023) 2 Ernestaro1 (opposite the Messiah Baptist school). (updated Jan 2023)
Sleep
1 Mampong Guest House (around the Ejura-Kumasi road, 150m from the Police Barrier in Bosofour town). Check-in: noon, check-out: noon. (updated Dec 2022) 2 Adom Upscale Hotel (it is a minute walk away from the Ejura-Kumasi road when you curve on the first junction from Pentecostchurch). Check-in: noon, check-out: noon. (updated Dec 2022) 3 Breadfruit Hostel (after the Kyeremfaso Mampong gas station, walk 120 m heading southeast). Check-in: noon, check-out: noon. (updated Jan 2023)
Overview adapted from Wikipedia, travel guide fromWikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.