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Capital: Porto Novo
Population: 7.5 million
Languages: French, Yoruba, Dendi, Ge,
Bariba, and Fon
Area: 112,622 square kilometres
Currency: West African CFA Franc
Time Zone: GMT+1
International Dialling Code: +229
Highlights
The Slave Route:
A melancholy but essential stop on your
trip, including the ‘Point of No Return’
Memorial.
Fetish Market:
Visit the wierd, wonderful, and wholly
bizarre, at Porto Novo’s voodoo market.
Check out the special offers on bat wings
and unmentionable parts of a monkey’s
anatomy!
Ghezo’s Throne:
One of the gruesome relics of Dahomey’s
kingdom, built on human skulls.
Population: 7.5 million
Languages: French, Yoruba, Dendi, Ge,
Bariba, and Fon
Area: 112,622 square kilometres
Currency: West African CFA Franc
Time Zone: GMT+1
International Dialling Code: +229
Highlights
The Slave Route:
A melancholy but essential stop on your
trip, including the ‘Point of No Return’
Memorial.
Fetish Market:
Visit the wierd, wonderful, and wholly
bizarre, at Porto Novo’s voodoo market.
Check out the special offers on bat wings
and unmentionable parts of a monkey’s
anatomy!
Ghezo’s Throne:
One of the gruesome relics of Dahomey’s
kingdom, built on human skulls.
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A little known destination as far as tourists
are concerned… and that’s its beauty. It’s
fascinating, bizarre, with a wealth of simply
adorable beaches along the coast, and rich
wildlife in the north.
Benin built an amazing fortune on the back
of the slave trade, and there’s a memorial to
the thousands who died on the darkly named
‘Point of No Return’.
Take a trip to Lake Nokoue, & the villagers
of Ganvie who live in small huts built on stilts
way out in the lake, or head to the stunning
scenery of the north to swim in the pool at
the bottom of the Kota waterfall.
Set aside time for the Pendjari National Park,
which has elephants, hippo’s, big cats, and
baboons.
Benin was the home of voodoo,
which is still practised today. Not the stuff
of novels and movies, but the real, if bizarre,
religion. The Fetish Markets are full of animal
heads, bats wings, and the like… a perfect
souvenir for the mother-in-law.
Despite it not being a high profile destination
in the tourist brochures, Benin is a safe and
easy place in which to travel, & will reward
you with an exhilarating and memorable trip.
Check out our list of highlights below.
are concerned… and that’s its beauty. It’s
fascinating, bizarre, with a wealth of simply
adorable beaches along the coast, and rich
wildlife in the north.
Benin built an amazing fortune on the back
of the slave trade, and there’s a memorial to
the thousands who died on the darkly named
‘Point of No Return’.
Take a trip to Lake Nokoue, & the villagers
of Ganvie who live in small huts built on stilts
way out in the lake, or head to the stunning
scenery of the north to swim in the pool at
the bottom of the Kota waterfall.
Set aside time for the Pendjari National Park,
which has elephants, hippo’s, big cats, and
baboons.
Benin was the home of voodoo,
which is still practised today. Not the stuff
of novels and movies, but the real, if bizarre,
religion. The Fetish Markets are full of animal
heads, bats wings, and the like… a perfect
souvenir for the mother-
Despite it not being a high profile destination
in the tourist brochures, Benin is a safe and
easy place in which to travel, & will reward
you with an exhilarating and memorable trip.
Check out our list of highlights below.
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