🇧🇯 Benin
Voodoo is openly practised, stilt villages line the lagoon, and the coast hums with history — Benin is compact and compelling.
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🇧🇯 Benin at a glance
Voodoo is openly practised, stilt villages line the lagoon, and the coast hums with history — Benin is compact and compelling.
Who it suits
Culture-focused travellers interested in voodoo, history and lagoons.
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What the season feels like
November–February is dry and cooler, before the March–July heat and rains arrive.
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What Benin is known for
- Ganvié stilt village by pirogue
- Ouidah's Route des Esclaves
- Royal palaces of Abomey
- Pendjari wildlife drive
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