Benin Expeditions 23Days/22Nights

Upon arrival in Benin, you will meet our staff for a warm reception. Later transferred to Hotel du Lac in Cotonou for Overnight.

After breakfast, meet the guide at the hotel lobby, today you will explore the city. Cotonou is a port city with remains of the communist period that have decided the appearance of the city. Explore the Dantokpa’s market one of the largest in the Guinea Gulf. We will visit the fetish stores that will bring Voodoo world feeling to you. After the visit, we will continue to Ganvie the famous “African Venice” a great concentration of Tofí fishermen families who hide in Lake Nokoué escaping from slavery in the18th century. Tour along the ‘water channels’, meet the people, learn about Tofí culture. After the visit, return Hotel du Lac for overnight.

Today after your breakfast, you will drive to the mythical city of Ouidah capital of the African Voodoo. A Voodoo devotee will guide us through the festival where people come from all over the world. Some groups stop to dance, salute the people, or make offerings. Mothers carry their babies tied on the back. Men bang drums. Nobles are easy to spot because they are covered with giant and historical umbrellas. Seated in precarious platforms they enjoy dances and music in their honor after long and bombastic presentation speeches. On a central stage, the griots (jongleurs) entertain dancing and making acrobatics on the top of a high post. Later the fetish (gods representations) made of stalk go through the arena spinning around. But the main entertainment is drum men. The devotees come around them dressing colorful African clothes and dancing compulsively. In the evening, alcohol effects are visible and join the euphoria of several hours of dance, sun and spirituality Dinner and overnight at Hotel Diaspora Hotel.