Country Info
- Porto-Novo
- Capital
- CFA Franc BCEAO (XOF)
- Currency
- 6,590,782
- Population
- BJ
- Country Code
Porto-Novo Slideshow
Porto-Novo
Travel Blogs from Porto-Novo, Benin
Ack! A spider!
Left Cotonou around 8am and got back to Houègbo around 10am. Decided to sit outside with the landlord's wife for a bit. She was on her porch doing some sewing. I learned her name is Grâce, and she doesn't have any kids. She wants kids, but is ...
My Birthday
AIDS Bike Tour in Northern Benin. It's the day before our departure. Today we learn the route and it is also my ...
Bike Trip-Day 3
We were three days ahead of schedule. As we waited for people to gather around, some people decided to build a kite....it was ...
Finished with training and heading back to Materi
... the largest risk group are people of their age and younger. So after selecting our team we went down to the capital city (Porto-Novo) and had a three day traning conference. It was really cool doing this with these two people because both of them had ...
Belated Birthday Celebration
Meredith and I finally celebrated my birthday after I returned home from the bike tour. I opened my packages from home. I wish I'd have filmed me opening the gifts...I was ecstatic when I opened my ...
Furniture?
The menusier was supposed to come today with my furniture. So, I cleaned the house really well. Went to visit Kayveen briefly around 10am-didn't stay long, as she was leaving and I didn't want to miss the menusier. I gave her a pen that had my ...
Sunday Church Service
This morning when I woke up, I hadn't had a good night's sleep. It was "cold" and I didn't have any extra sheets nearby. I was waking up about every hour shivering, but too lazy to go find a sheet. So, when the time came to really get up-I didn't want ...
News and updates
Hello there everyone, We hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th. Being that it always feels like mid August here it's hard to remember time is flying by and both mother's day and father's day are way behind us. So at least we were aware of this one. ...
Kids and Toys
The last stop of the day was at this village. It is a beautiful village with extremely kind people...all the villages were king to us, but some just seemed more-so. The scenery of this village feels like a ...
Meeting Houegbo
8AM more of the Homologue meeting at the Hotel. 12PM went home to get my baggage 12:30PM returned to the hotel 12:35 PM ate lunch at the hotel (courtesy of the PC) 1:15PM left hotel with Augustine and headed for Cotonou 2:30PM changed taxi's in ...
Bike tour Benin
... getting out and talking with people we wouldn't otherwise see. This project lasted 10 days and finished with a procession down "main street" (Benin humor) with the womens group singing an AIDS song one of our trainers composed. The day we did this was the ...
In Service Training
Hey everyone! We hope everyone's enjoying the spring weather over there. The rains are beginning and everything's looking greener everyday. It gives everything a much different feel that when we first got here. At In service training, Rebecca ...
A Baptism
I went to the Post Office to mail my photos, but the lady didn't like my package. She said stamps wouldn't stick to the envelope I'd used (a bubble envelope from the US, the shape and size of a cd case). I was a little confused about that, but just let ...
Jason's Dad and Stepmom's big adventure
... the last bank after waiting an hour in line we are told that US dollar traveler's checks aren't really accepted anywhere here in Benin due to problems with forgery. So after wasting the morning we were anxious to get out of Cotonou and see the real ...
TeleCel-a reliable phone service?
Woke up at 5:45 to go for a run with Meredith. I was supposed to be at her house at 6:15, but my concession locks with a key from the inside, so I couldn't get out. I don't have a key yet. Everyone was asleep too... Luckily, someone knocked on the ...
Be it ever so humble, There is no place like home.
I was just lying around reading and the beads of sweat formed, it was so hot. My remodeling is finished. I painted two rooms and my ...
"The OC" has arrived.
Yea! Season 2 of "The OC" arrived! Thanks Ryan! We now have something to do while we're stuck in village during "Standfast" for the ...
A better day.
Ok...today was much better than yesterday. Proof that God is here helping me through tough times and listening to my prayers. Augustine and I went to Sehoue today to meet the artisans there. Sehoue is about 20 min north of Houegbo. I'll be working ...
A day in Houègbo
Today, I woke up a little depressed. I didn't have anything that I "HAD" to do today, so I didn't really want to get out of bed. After I did get up (7:425ish), I took a bucket bath. I was really cranky about not having running water, and the ...
Pepsi!
This morning I went for a run with Meredith. Man, am I out of shape! The last time I went for a run was when I was in the USA...3 months ago, at least. We were gone for about an hour, I probably only ran for about 20 mins though. After my "run", I ...
What's in the PC Cookbook?
Meredith and I cooked dinner in Houègbo. We made salad, and a ginger-peanut veggie meal...it's potatoes and other veggies mixed with a peanut butter and ginger sauce. The recipe was in the PC cookbook. It's really ...
My Birthday Continues
What a great birthday surprise! It arrived today. Thank you to the UWW Financial Services for your ...
The Priest in Sehoue
My landlord's cousin is a priest in Sehoue. After I give a formation in Sehoue I sometimes go to visit him. This day he gave me a ride home. In August or September he will be going to France to visit a pen-pal. It will be his ...