Novotel Orisha Cotonou

Cotonou is the largest city in the country of Benin. It is the economic capital. <br><br>Upon arrival in the country, I didn't think much of this city. However, now that I am accustomed to the poor-looking small villages, the city looks much different. It is a booming and full of life. One can get just about anything here, if they search hard enough and/or have the right connections.<br ...

... on nous a<br>servis, &#8230;<br>Dès la sortir de l&#8217;avion on a été marquées par l&#8217;humidité<br>de l&#8217;air et par la chaleur. C&#8217;était selon Jessica quasi irrespirable.<br>Un hammam à l&#8217;extérieur :-)<br>A l&#8217;arrivée dans l&#8217;aéroport c&#8217;était la<br>cohue. On a pris le bus, tout le monde se poussait, le chauffeur<br>fermait les portes même si tout le monde n&#8217;était pas rentré. Puis on<br>est arrivés à l&#8217;aéroport, il fallait ...

... ev**yday market. Due to the size of the group we didn't have enough time to visit the Temple Zewa.<br><br><br><br>Heading north to the bord** passing through the larg** town of Nikki, this bord** post is furth** north than any previous ov**landing truck has gone. This makes it as Chris says "a pione**ing mini-adventure". We bush camped at<br><br><br><br>Dist. cov. = 332 km<br><br><br><br>26th - Continued to the bord** town and on to the bord** post in *****ia.

... tour to see the canoe markets and stilt houses. <br> Abomey also provided a great tour, in which we w**e all loaded onto motorbikes (3 p** bike, unless some of the lads decided to drive themselves and one game passeng**). We visited a local chief who p**formed sev**al voodoo rituals for us - lucky Andrew got a live chicken rubbed ov** his entire body...we also visited a fetish ...

... windshield, or his passengers.... On the road we saw all the weird and wonderful things one sees on African city streets. On one street corner traffic light, someone had displayed a selection of used winter jackets for sale. This is in tropical Africa where it never gets cooler than 70 degrees Fahrenheit even at night in the cool season. A passenger on a motorcycle taxi was wearing four car tires. The taxi ...

I was up early this morning and put the finishing touches on the next issue of our church magazine in French. Then, heading for breakfast, I took the metro up to the Anvers station. From there one can catch a funicular (a tram that goes diagonally upwards) to the peak of Montmartre. When I arrived at the funicular, I found it was not operating. So stairs it was, 202 stairs by my count. I arrived at the base of the Sacré Coeur (Sacred Heart ...

... checking passports.  There were no lines, and I quickly learned that getting through the airport was going to be much like getting through Times Square.  When I finally got to an immigration officer I was all prepared with my full folder of documents.  He didn't care.  At all.  Without even looking up at me he grabbed my passport, stamped it, and handed it back.  Later I found out I was fortunate as many of the officers were taking ...

... de dente, de ouvido, de cabeca, mais o sol escaldante me obrigassem a encostar sob a sombra de uma arvore. 5 minutos depois, um rasta muito comico saiu da sua kubata mal amanhada atras da dita arvore e tivemos num dialogo int**essante durante meia hora, o tempo de recup**ar o folego e voltar a met**-me de pe. Mais marcha longa ate que outro motoqueiro, ou por outra, o passageiro que nela seguia, parou para me faz** adicionar como t**ceiro elemento mais ...

... through villages towards bush camp. Barsby making sure he'd gone to the toilet before we left this time - he just might have had to use a bottle earlier on in the day. Ended up pulling off road and finding a camp just before 7 so cook group raced around madly, trying to get dinner served before 9pm. Whilst waiting we discovered our first truck pet... a giggy worm... named Harold... which lives in my toe. At least we think its a giggy worm...