BENIN
Benin (formerly Dahomey) is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. The capital of Benin is Porto-Novo, but the seat of government is in Cotonou, the country's largest city and economic capital. Benin is a tropical, sub-Saharan country, highly dependent on agriculture, with substantial employment and income arising from subsistence farming.
BEST TIME to VISIT BENIN
BEST TIME to TRAVEL to BENIN
from November to January
women and children
hairdresser called "Only Good"
Woman carrying an heavy load
fetching water at the well - there is no ater at the tap so women have to do it
women carrying heavy loads on their heads
Natitingou market - butcher preparing meat
Voodoo bas-reliefs carved on a house
Family on a motorcycle
heavy traffic in Cotonou
church
Royal Palaces
church
Royal Palaces
Royal Palaces
A motorbike for 3
bad time for these 2 cows linked on the top of a car
woman and baby on a motorbike
Pendjari National Park - Western hartebeest also named bubale antelope
Pendjari National Park - Lionness
Pendjari National Park - hippopotamus outside of the water - difficult to see at day time
antelopes
Pendjari National Park - strange bird
Pendjari National Park - graphic stork
Pendjari National Park - Elephant
Lake Noukoué - woman paddling
Lake Noukoué - woman with her floating shop
Lake Noukoué - the village is built over the water and the boat is the only way to move
Lake Noukoué - 2 young boys paddling
Lake Noukoué - woman going to the market
Lake Noukoué - windsailing
Pendjari National Park - Baobab
Tata Somba
Tata somba
Tata somba
Tata Somba
Tata Somba
Lake Noukoué - Floating village
Lake Noukoué - Windsailing backto their floating village
Lake Noukoué - These ladies are proposing goods and their boats are shops
nice sandy beach along the Atlantic Ocean
Pendjari National Park - Baboon
Pendjari National Park - warthog
Antelope
woman carrying wood
woman wrrying wood
mother and child
woman
Voodoo - Celebration
overloaded car
Voodoo - Secret forest - boys avec traveling on this truck with their bicycles - quite dangerous
Voodoo - Secret forest - statue
Voodoo - Secret forest - statue
Voodoo - Secret forest - very old trees
Voodoo - Secret forest - statue
Voodoo - Secret forest - Naked tribal
Slave route - blue statue
Slave route - statue
Slave route - Slave statue
Slave route - Slave statue