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Ganvie Slideshow
Ganvie
Travel Blogs from Ganvie, Benin
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A Short Stint in Benin.
... in Benin. We believed, even though it was going to be a short stint, it was going to be a good one. So off to Ganvie stilt village for a boat ride. We had seen similar in Peru and Venezuela, but we didn't expect the extreme begging and nastiness that we ...
A Floating Village
... nbsp; The floating village of Ganvie is one of the most interesting real estate aspects of Benin. In Ganvie, the local tribes of people literally live on the water. Their houses are constructed upon stilts which serve as the ...
Ganvie Village, Benin, December 14, 2007
... to about 30,000 Tofinu tribe members, all of whom live in dwellings built about two meters above Lake Nokoue, Ganvie is one of Benin's leading tourist magnets. The tribe allegedly came to this fishing-based lifestyle on the lake in the 1600s when ...
Ganvie
The height of a particularly wet rainy season may not actually be the most interesting time to visit a stilt village. It was more like a village floating on the water but still really cool. There's even a cute little rustic house-boatesque ...
Its getting hot in herrrrre
Heya guys sup? Ok. i made it in, 19 hours of happy flying and an open bar and a little bit of trouble setting off the metal detector :) Ghana is soooooooooooooo cool. But not actually cool- rather hot. Who would have thought?? I have seriously never been ...
back to school... back to school...
Heya blog howsit going?? Sorry I have been absent for so long. Its because LIFE AS A TEACHER IS FUCKING RIDICULOUSLY EXHAUSTING AND BUSY. Seriously. School starts at 7 (wtf) and so every morning I drag myself outta bed, make a cup of bad instant coffee ...
Still call australia home... but africas better!!
Heya guys howsit going? Ok so this is going to be a massive massive blog. lots has happened in the last week. going to try and write more frequently in smaller chunks so people can actually get through it. here goes... Writing this after surviving of two ...
We wish you a merry christmas!!
Heya guys, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Ok so im totally lucky and didnt have to get ppl presents this year. But i do admit, my first christmas away from the family... quite sad. guess iv grown up. (then again christmas in my house always involves a mad domestic ...
taaaxxiiiiiiii
Ok. my first month of the modem deal that had a free month of internet use is now over... there are no ATM's in Kasoa and im down to 5 cedi... so pretty much this may be my last chance to blog and facebook for a bit. I go back to accra on the weekend so ...
Run to paradise
ok so moving on. i got to hohoe at about 2. epic struggle. meet my lovers Jessie, Janice and Chrissy They had just climbed a mountain so i pretended i had aswell, feasted, and chilled. Was good to see the aussies (shame the glorious music of the aussie ...
There was water everywhere
... loud music playing at some of the houses, and savoring tales of valor and skill the guide fed us about the first chief of Ganvie (whose golden statue stands in the village). We next came across an area where there seemed to be a ‘fete’. Marie ...
omg totally going to have a bitch fit
Eyyyy dudes whats happening? Ok so I'm in a bitching mood. They say there is a honey-moon phase when u get to a new country, then like the culture-blues. But first ill say some cool things that have happened. Went to a salsa night last Wednesday. OMG ...
Changes
Well guys... part1 of Africa draws to an end tonight. Farewelled Nikki back to the netherlands on friday night (or more correctly, 5:00 saturday morning when we got back from the club). The Aussie crew has packed their bags and gone out exploring west ...
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