My first trip to Africa and I was really excited. It turned out that Benin was not really the Africa that I had pictured. The wildlife wasn't what I had naively exspected and the city was no way near what i had pictured in my head. Cotonou was a big, big city! I don't really know what had thought it would be like, but it was a big surprise to see how it was. Theres not really much to see in the city, the main attraction must have been the port of no return. But it was indeed a bit weird to stand where millions of slaves had left the continent to go to a life without freedom in the so-called land of freedom. But the city was so full of life, the whole country was.
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