Stilt Village, Benin
January 24th 2003 Benin was much the same as Togo, only a 48 hour transit visa but we did do a little bit more.
We went to Ganvie, a stilt village on a lake just outside Cotonou. We took a pirogue trip out for a look around. That was ok, except that the first few places in the village we stopped at were tacky souvenir shops! The village was interesting, all the houses, churches, shops, schools etc on stilts
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