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Cotonou Slideshow
Top Hotels in Cotonou
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Novotel Orisha Cotonou
51 reviews -
Ibis Cotonou
25 reviews
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Benin Marina Hotel Cotonou
32 reviews
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Dichotel Cotonou
2 reviews -
Hotel du Lac Cotonou
23 reviews
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Hotel du Port Cotonou
16 reviews
Cotonou
Travel Blogs from Cotonou, Benin
A LONG, detailed account of tro-tros and more
This is a top pick! ... a beach ball can. From there, we crossed back over into French-speaking Togo and caught a taxi back to Cotonou, Benin, where our trip had begun a week before. ----- Angela, Melissa, Cristy, and I left ...
Camp GLOW and more
This is a top pick! ... week that my dad was there was packed full of activities. We had a whirlwind tour of Benin! They visited Parakou, N'Dali, Abomey, Lokossa, Ouidah, Ganvié, and Cotonou. In N'Dali, I watched my parents try to pound yams (photos forthcoming), and I saw ...
A quick note
This is a top pick! Something that made me smile and laugh out loud today: I was on a zemidjan riding through the streets in Cotonou when a very distinguished looking, white goat passed me. He had a very nice goatee and two long horns that curled back like little buns on ...
Cotonou
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Cotonou in our entry from Niamey, Niger entitled 'Togo and Benin to Niger'. Cheers, K & ...
Bush Taxi
... hurt her feelings since the food had obviously been traveling for a while. I had discovered that they were on their way to Cotonou for med check ups for Canadian visas because her husband had been there since 1995 and even though they'd been approved and ...
First night at Paul VI
... runs throughout the country. It is basically a two lane dirt road. Once off the airplane, we are greeted by current volunteers from Benin. We are shuttled in Land Rovers to Jean Paul VI. It is a Catholic church/convent in the heart of Benin. At this ...
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... cramped taxi back to Cotonou after that, and collapsed in bed until 2. Now there's something I didn't explain - when I got to Cotonou, I took a motorcycle taxi and asked him to take me to the "Pension des Familles", the cheapest hotel in my Lonely Planet ...
Chill à Cotonou
A Cotonou, c'est vraiment une ville très calme, mais active on trouve de tout : glace, pizza, alors je me fais plaisir et je me console après ces périodes pas toujours simple. Merci à la famille Mike et JD pour le paquet vraiment super ...
Golfe de Benin
... is beginning to get much better. This is surprisingly unsual but I have time and access to post another entry. I am currently in Cotonou and will leave this city on Thursday to travel to a town called Azove about three hours away. Sorry if there are ...
new goodies!
... . I have to say, however, that life after staging in pre-service learning is much more of a blur. Upon our arrival into Cotonou, we were greeted by some Peace Corps higher-ups who took care of getting us through customs and immigration. Then, there ...
Off to Azove!!!
... away. I plan to take a bush taxi with some other volunteers every sunday to check my emails and post another entry. Being in Cotonou and having access to the Peace Corps headquaters has spoiled me but c'est la vie! I really encourage you guys to send ...
Gha-To-Nin, ça c'est fait
... la prochaine fois que je reviendrai je les trouverai dans la même forme et la même ouverture d'esprit. En prenant une voiture pou Cotonou, Hervé demande à la personne avec qui je partage mon siège qu'il prenne bien soin de moi... alors c'est ce ...
zemi, zemi
... language) for zemi driver. While you're doing this, you must make sure that you are summoning a legitimate zemi driver. In Cotonou, they will be wearing a yellow shirt with some numbers printed on the back. The color varies from city to city and town ...
Benin (Eng+Pt)
... family. But he just wouldn't let me go and once more I was blown away by this African tenderness. On the Benin side, a quick introduction about my travel method immediately gathered me some sympathy, the immigration officer rushed to get me a nice, ...
That's A Wrap
... wet sauna with a full backpack on, accompanied by a couple hundred of your closest friends to get a sense of the slightly warm Cotonou airport. We were even reminded of officialdom in West Africa as no less than 5 attempts were made to secure a monetary ...
Farewells to Benin
... world and ourselves. We picked up our friend Michelle on the way down and loaded up her things. Then we arrived in Cotonou that evening. Michelle and us all shared stories of our saying goodbye. Michelle's village thought so much of her to make ...
"The Last..."
... students dressed in brilliant white, sitting listening to their bellowing tutor. The sand was soft and the big buildings of Cotonou in the hazy distance seemed strange after seeing nothing but lush trees and lumpy peanut fields and huts with unhurried ...
New Pictures from Benin and our Travels in France
Hey everyone, We just finished putting captions on pictures Eric has developed for us so check it out and let us know if this site is working for everyone. Thanks and we'll write again soon, Jason and Rebecca The link should be: ...
First Thoughts on Benin
... . And hopefully a game of beach soccer will insue. So the plan is to spend the rest of the week (until next thursday) here in cotonou at the convent and then we're off to our training sites. Rebecca and I will be living in the same site together but ...
Culture Shock!!!!
... the landlord's SUV. Franck and the landlord talked while we finished breakfast. Our first stop was the marché in Cotonou. Jen has turned into quite a wise shopper. She bargains by negotiating a price, they say "no", she walks ...
Happy Birthday Meredith!
For breakfast, I met Meredith and two other Volunteers at a bakery/café called Gerb d'Or. I took a zemi there. It was my first time traveling by zemi solo...without other Volunteers with me. My driver didn't exactly know where the bakery was though, ...
Le Petit Miguelito
We went to a concert of many "popular" artists....at least they are very popular within Benin. Le Petit Miguelito debuted his first CD. It seems he is very popular here and extremely famous (like the Beatles). I had the "luck" to talk to him before the ...
Waiting...
... just picked it out and ate the other stuff. I was hungry and there was nothing else to eat. 2:30 - we finally left for Cotonou. When I got to the Bureau, I checked my email and updated some blog entries-now I'm only a month behind....lol. Dinner ...
Drumming, Road Accident,THAI FOOD!
... in Burkina and Benin. Trip had some nice scenery - it was good to see lots of green again after the SuperSahelian landscape! Got to Cotonou last night, and just walked around a bit...went to Ghanaian embassy this morning to do my visa - and on the way, ...
oooh, fanmilk
... very promising and all the volunteers absolutely love it here in Benin. Afterword, we went to the office and had a little tour of Cotonou. A driver took us on a car tour of the city and dropped us off down by the beach where we worked our way back to ...
Easter Weekend
After the All-Vol Conference the US Ambassador Wayne Neille (spelling??) invited usu to his home for a cookout and ...
Interview between Eric and Jason
... to them? Benin news, I mean. Eseyler (12:22:18 PM): Is there a mayor for Materi? JasonS1976 (12:22:55 PM): Benin is very much a democracy (one of the better/least curropt ones in west africa right now) and the next presidential elections won't happen ...