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| | Cotonou is reminiscent of Eastern European cities in the 80s. It is a gray city of concrete apartment blocks that stands silent in its soot. Most visitors do not rave of Cotonou's beauty although the city's monuments to Lenin and other communist leaders are spectacularly populist in design. Cotonou is along the major trading route between Lagos and Ivory Coast, as such it is flooded with people... |
| Grand Popo is a beach town. The town is especially relaxed for a tourist destination in West Africa, the locals won't hassle you and pressure you to buy silly things. The beach is stunning... it's clean (gasp!) You could spend many days here in the shade of coconut groves, just watching the waves. Swimming is a little hazardous since the undertow is at its strongest at this stretch of the... |
| The capital of voodoo and reputed home of its shamanistic practitioners. The town is all set up for tourism and operates various museums, cultural centers, voodoo sites and yearly festivals. If you like soaking up random information on guided tours and reading placards about this and that, you will thoroughly enjoy Ouidah. After a museum tour in the morning, walking toward the beach down the... |
| Abomey is the ancient capital of one of the most violent and revered warrior cultures in West Africa, the Dahomey. The Dahomey empire gained the respect of Europeans in colonial times and represented a force to be reckoned with for the French, who were told by the last Dahomey king Gbêhanzin: "The King does not give his country to anyone, ancestral lands are sacred." Despite fierce resistance,... |
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