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Bokoumbe Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Bokoumbe, Benin
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On Safari in Parc Pendjari
This is a top pick! ... . Also, I am trying to wade through over 150 essays written by girls who hope to attend our first Camp G.L.O.W. in Benin. G.L.O.W. stands for Girls Leading Our World. It is a camp that first started with Peace Corps volunteers in Romania. Now, we ...
Bembereke and Women's Day
This is a top pick! ... and while not so important in the U.S. where women have a lot of rights, it is a very important in places like Benin where women's importance is continually downplayed and denied. Hence, I helped organize my second women's day celebration in Bembereke and ...
My best friend and her daughter
This is a top pick! This entry is basically a manner to preserve digital images that others have taken with digital cameras and emailed to me. The photos here are of my best friend and her daughter, Clarisse who is a little over two years old now... so I have known her for ...
This is Africa
Hey everybody We just got back from the most amazing voyage... Thursday and Friday we went to a conference where we met our supervisors from Materi. The responsable of the center for promotion of social health (CPS) came for Rebecca, and a retired ...
Safari Adventure
... 8 other volunteers just spent an amazing 2 days in the National wildlife park Penjari. It is pretty close to our post in northwest Benin (around 50 miles) and it was such a good time. The park logo is Penjari 100% natural which describes it really well. ...
One Month to go!!!
Hey everyone! We know it's been a long time since you've heard from us. We hope you all are doing well and enjoying the fall colors. We're doing great and are just finishing up our service, since we leave in just one month!!! It's hard to believe ...
The Great Mousecapade Continues
... I are making twice that a month each as PCVs. So this was a real eye-opener for what people are living off of here in Benin. Jason and Rebecca also helped Dassibou a little with the construction of a new 1 room mud house. We really only served as a ...
Work, weather and running
March 3, 2005 Hey everyone! We're in town again trying to get everything squared away for Jason's training for environmental education in the schools. This project will be 3 days long. It will be done 2 times, since there are 63 schools in the ...
If a Beninoise were going to America...
Here are the things he should know first: 1. you can be arrested for public exposure if you decide to urinate right outside of the (non bush) taxi and / or poo. 2. the throaty clicks you use to mean 'whatever' or 'that is soooo wrong' or 'can you ...
Holiday Greetings from Materi
Hey there everybody!!! WOW Where do we begin??? Well I guess we should go in cronological order starting from our trip up to Materi. All the PCVs tell you that you should savor your trip up to your site because it's the only time you a provided a ...
so this is what 111 degrees in the shade is like
Hi everyone We're down in the big city of Cotonou for a few days taking care of some work issues and doing some shopping. It's the first time we've been down here since swear in ceremony, and it's a little different after living in such a remote ...
Things we've been up to
Hello everyone!! We're in town on the way yo Parakou for a meeting. I hope everyones doing well. We just spent the last hour reading emails, its great to hear from so many of you! People have asked in emails about our work, so we'll try to ...
Pictures from africa
Hey everybody, Here is a link to our second set of pictures. There's a lot and we aren't finished updating all the titles and captions but we'd thought we'd get this out to you all as soon as we could. Enjoy!!! A travel update will come soon. ...
Time spent in Materi
... their smaller villages outside of Materi and teach everyone. Hopefully these small village efforts will keep the disease from spreading through Benin as it has in many other African countries. So the talk of the town is this formation, and the ...
June is Plant a Tree Month
Hey everyone! Well We were only a post for a few weeks before leaving again but were surprisingly able to get some work done. June 1st was tree day and the mayor had a big ceremony at a primary school in town and they planted 50 trees that had been ...
Off to the Chutes
We are up at 6:00 AM again today. It is dark as we check out of our hotel in the Parc. We have packed everything in the car and begin our day's journey. Jen is shivering this morning because it is cold in her opinion, warm and ...
Update from Benin
... this decision off of last time on our return; we had to wait 6 hours for a taxi to fill up going back into Matéri. In Benin, when you take a taxi it's not like in the States where you're the only person in the car. Unless you want to pay extra, you ...
emails
Wow! I can't believe you guys have been over there for 2 years already!! It's been just fascinating to read about your adventures while you have been there. I look forward to your return! Where are you planning on "settling" when you get back? I ...
Ride Natty Ride
Finally I have managed to get a song title in here. And a Bob Marley one at that. Delighted. Okay, so Natitingou is abbreviated to Nati, not Natty, but hey. I did ride here though. On the back of a moped (or moto as they're called here) and then a ...
Elephants, hippos, and wild baboons!!
... of the 4x4 and started waving his hands and screaming. None of us knew what the hell was going on, but this isn't unusual in Benin. The elephant screamed back and ran off. Over the course of the day we saw 4 elephants, 3 hippos, lots of ...
Retour vers le passé
8 ans sont passes et si peu de choses ont changé... Alors oui, internet est là mais il est encore très peu utilisé. Alors oui le téléphone portable est partout mais avec des salaires de 25000 CFA mensuels (37,5 euros), le recharger en minutes est ...
somba experience
What a wonderfull view, gliding hills with scattered somba's, the traditional housing of the tata somba. There are still people living in these wonderfull houses. If you want to experience what is really like, call this number 0022 96 66 69 611. ...
Tanguieta
... ; The Dahomey empire sold many of the slaves to the Europeans through Ouidah, a coastal port established by the Portuguese in Benin. That evening, we went to the market-night party down the street where the five cent tchouk was taking its effect. ...
From Bamako to Benin
... much time in Bamako and was excited to start my trip. I'd bought a ticket the day before to Natitingou, in northern Benin, where I believed I could buy a Visa extension for the forty-eight hour one they issued at the border. Ten o'clock we ...
Natitingou to Boukoumbe
... in a swath that rose and fell as a stormy, oceanic landscape painting. Somewhere around was the tallest mountain in Benin, although not distinct enough to recognize. On our bikes again, we pushed off and coasted into Boukoumbe, with ...
Back from village
... our service) is that the president has implemented free elementary education. This is huge for smaller villages and as a result Benin is now grappling with just a big teacher shortage. To solve this they have implemented a military/teaching program. If ...
The Indigenous Somba
Natitingou (1 day) Tata Somba and the Falls of Tanougou are 1-2 hour outside of the town Tata Somba= a mud fortress, designed to protect families and livestock from invaders such as slavers and neighboring tribes. Somba people: their lifestyle has been ...
Was ist ein Tata Somba?
... die Haut geritzt werden. Diese Schnitte müssen jedoch so tief sein, dass sich daraus sichtbare Narben bilden. Im Norden von Benin „zieren“ diese Narben oft das gesamte Gesicht sternförmig von der Nase weg verlaufend. Das Muster ist dann aber ...
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