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- Porto-Novo
- Capital
- CFA Franc BCEAO (XOF)
- Currency
- 6,590,782
- Population
- BJ
- Country Code
Benin Slideshow
Benin
Travel Blogs from Benin
Colonial Meltdown
... two, and reached Ouidah, forty kilometers west by three-thirty. After spending five days in Cotonou awaiting visas for Benin and Ghana, the speed amazed me. Ouidah advertised a lot: a colonial Portuguese fort turned museum, route des ...
Hair "tressing" (braiding)
... , a gesture not common here. They were ecstatic about it, which made the tip worth it even more. In total, I spent about $4 on my hair. This is nothing to an American, but it is a significant amount to someone who lives in a small village in ...
Voodoo to Cotonou
... that funerals are big parties that last for days. The two different parties also made sense. Religions in Benin seem to have a heterogeneous relationship. Voodoo often incorporates parts of Christianity and Islam into its practices, and ...
Out of Brousse
A quick update from Parakou, on a French keyboard which is particularily frustrating and difficult so who knows how long i,ll last! We left Nikki yesterday afternoon in the pouring rain, with a dutch woman who lived here for 8 years in the 80's ...
A day at the beach
Grand Po-Po is the beach resort town in Benin. Most of the people in this town are ex-pats on vacation. I arrived at Grand Po-Po around 10:30am and picked out a room in the hotel, called Etoiles de la Mer. It's a very nice hotel, compared to other places ...
One trip: A streak of travel incidences
The goal today is to make it to a city in the northern part of Benin called Kandi. It's located 12 hours north of Cotonou. Tomorrow, another American and I will be continuing on to a city even farther north called Banikora. It's too far to go in one day, ...