BENIN - Ouidah - Slave route
Ouidah or Whydah is a city on the coast of the Republic of Benin.In the past, the Whydah army pushed their way into the African interior, capturing millions of people through tribal wars, to be sold to the Europeans and Arabs. By 1716, when the massive English slave ship Whydah Gally arrived to purchase 500 slaves from King Haffon to sell in Jamaica, the Kingdom of Whydah had become the second largest slave port in the Triangular trade. The Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá (Fort of St. John the Baptist of Ouidah) is a small fortress built by the Portuguese in Ouidah, built by the Portuguese in 1580 to increase the slave trade.
BEST TIME to VISIT BENIN
BEST TIME to TRAVEL to OUIDAH
from November to January
Voodoo - Pythons shrine
Voodoo - Pythons shrine
Voodoo - Pythons shrine - Pythons are kept in the bigger building
Voodoo - Pythons shrine
Voodoo - Secret forect - Frescoe with the women bringing the water
Voodoo - painting on a wall
Voodoo - Secret Forest
Voodoo - Secret Forest - statue
Voodoo - house with voodoo paintings
Voodoo - local market - voodoo items
Voodoo - local market - voodoo items
Voodoo - local market - voodoo items - may be medecine
Voodoo - Secret forest - entrance
play babyfoot
hairdresser
portuguese fort - church
Portuguese Fort - painting showing slavery - Museum
Portuguese Fort
old city
market - old woman
hairdresser
the right place to clean your car or your motorcycle
taylor
hairdresser
fish shop - easy to find with the placard displayed outside
many shops have a religious name - this hairdresser is called "only God"
very probably a Voodoo fresco or a painting of the owner of this shop
Python shrine - outside wall with 41 ladies bringing water
Slave Route - Memorial facing the Atlantic Ocean
Slave Route - Memorial
Voodoo - Pythons at the Python Shrine
Voodoo - Secret Forest - Statue
Voodoo - Secret Forest - Statue
Voodoo - Secret Forest - Statue - tribal naked
Voodoo - Secret Forest - Statue