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Our Circuits (Guide) Benin TI ANY CIRCUITS, JOURNEYS, STAYS, SAFARIS ECOTOURISME IN WEST AFRICA 04B P 1451 Cotonou, Tel.: + (229) 97 52 89 49 / + (229) 95 68 48 49 E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected] Blog: www.urbanotourisme.afrikblog.com Cotonou Benin, West Africa OUR CIRCUITS (GUIDE) BENIN NB 1: through the information detailed well on sites (points of interests) tourist and cultural of the cities and villages of Benin below in which we work with our local partners among whom we have our own well experimented local guides, native of these circles, ready to make you live and discover their respective environment, you have the freedom total to conceive and to establish yourself, your journey, stay and circuit in Benin and to send him to us for its reorganization in our knowledge of the ground. NB 2: we are to hold you also at your disposal company in complete safety in cities and villages of Benin which are not included in our circuits Benin (guide) below. …………………………………………………………………………………… CONTENTS COTONOU - PORTO NOVO – GANVIE - OUIDAH – POSSOTOME - PARC PENDJARI – PARC W - GRAND POPO – ALLADA – ABOMEY - DASSA ZOUME – SAVALOU - SAVE - PARAKOU – DJOUGOU – URBANO TOURISME, un partenaire sûr pour le développement et la promotion du tourisme au Bénin, Afrique & Monde NATITNIGOU & LE PAYS SOMBA - KANDI – ALFAKOARA – BANIKOARA - KARIMAMA ……………………………………………………………………………………. 1/COTONOU: Economic capital of Benin, medium-sized Cotonou compared with the big metropolises of continent. Cotonou offers all the hotel commands and the restorations adapted to the taste and to the means of each. Of its city center in thousand colors to his big regional market " MARKET DANTOKPA " which offers a colorful, noisy and folk show, and by borrowing the street of the business with its daily show of goes and comes ceaseless and noisy between department stores and other shops which drive to the Fishing port, to the autonomous Port, in the center of the small business sector and in the beach of coconut palms in the fine sand etc... Cotonou stays and lives the big city of Benin. • Attractions of Cotonou and its surrounding Market Dantokpa: The market of Danktopa is one of the biggest of western Africa. We find there a little of everything: tissues, shoes, jewels, foodstuffs... A permanent excitement, 20 000 stands, itinerant about 30 000 on 22 hectares. A billion CFA francs (more 1 500 000 Euros) of exchanges every day, in a noisy, colorful crowd URBANO TOURISME, un partenaire sûr pour le développement et la promotion du tourisme au Bénin, Afrique & Monde This gigantic market under - regional outdoor is held every five days at the edge of the Lagoon of Cotonou. Placed under the protection of Dan, god of the wealth, the Dantokpa market is the barometer of the Beninese economy. · Beaches - Route peaches: Beaches of Cotonou: Cotonou, due to its good geographical position with regard to the Atlantic Ocean (Sea), offers you not only of more beautiful beaches of coconut palms to the fine sand very livened up almost daily, but also the Atlantic Ocean for your moments of bathing at sea. The road of peaches: By leaving from Cotonou you will join Ouidah by the road of the peaches which goes along all the coast. This one crosses fishermen's numerous traditional villages which we can see at work, firing their nets in the strength of the arms. The place is very livened up the weekends where find themselves numerous families of Cotonou. · Zinzou foundation. URBANO TOURISME, un partenaire sûr pour le développement et la promotion du tourisme au Bénin, Afrique & Monde Unique in Benin and in Africa, the Zinsou foundation is created in 2005, and aims to be as a pillar of the cultural and social promotion. Real museum of African contemporary arts, the Zinsou foundation has for objective «to promote the division of the alive culture and aims to be a springboard towards a popular distribution and a universal gratitude of the African art ". Situated behind the market Ganhi of Cotonou, it is a place of exposure of photos and paints. To go to the discovery of the space of the museum and the exposures, professional guides are at the disposal of the public, proposing a systematic guided tour. For the youngest, The foundation also set up a workshop, " Small Brushes " which meets every Wednesday, on Thursdays and Saturdays from 14 to 16 hours for 3-6 years and from 16 to 18 hours for 7-12 years. This workshop in for purpose to introduce the children to the art, by means of creative activities. For more information, go on http: // www.fondation-zinsou.org/ · Center of the small business sector of Cotonou: Situated on the holy boulevard - Michel, we find the most typical works of art there that we find in all Benin: wooden works of art, in metals, tam - tams and applied tapestries realized by local craftsmen. URBANO TOURISME, un partenaire sûr pour le développement et la promotion du tourisme au Bénin, Afrique & Monde 2/PORTO-NOVO: Political capital of Benin situated about 50 km from Cotonou, Porto-Novo is the old city and the colonial city, Porto-Novo is the fruit of a national cultural interbreeding and an admixture of the peoples (Adja of Togo and Yoruba of Nigeria). His rich historical, architectural and cultural heritage, constitutes one of its main tourist attractions. The various architectures which so contribute to the elaboration of the identity of Porto-Novo are of colonial, Afro-Brazilian or vernacular type. We shall not also miss to visit the numerous temples voodooes, witnesses of ancestral religious practices with which the local populations remain still strongly soaked. Attractions of Porto-Novo and its neighborhood. Garden of plants and the nature The garden of plants and nature is coiled at the heart of the city of Porto - Novo, in full administrative district, between the siege of the National Assembly and the departmental hospital center. The ancestor of the garden is the sacred forest of the kingdom of Porto-Novo. Entered it only initiated, persons authorized by Migan, then Minister of Justice. Indeed, the management of this forest spread on several hectares on the West by URBANO TOURISME, un partenaire sûr pour le développement et la promotion du tourisme au Bénin, Afrique & Monde the royal city, was confided to this high dignitary who, in communion with certain plants (iroko, Kolatiers, Kapokiers, hyssop), presided the rites celebrating the ancestors and the Vodun for the peace and the prosperity of the kingdom. In 1895, a part of the forest was transformed into trial garden by the French government of the colony of Dohomey, which he played the palace. This colonial garden was intended to shelter tropical and equatorial gasolines having food, medicinal interests, aromatic or forest. In 1905, he understood 630 treelike species implanted on 6,30 hectares, distributed in garden 1, jardin2, and garden 3. The garden was then until the independences of the 1960s, the professional Mecca of application for the pupils of agriculture Center Songhaï ( Firm school). Situated in a district of Porto-Novo called Ouando, the Center Songhaï is a place importing to visit if you want to have a view moved closer to the agricultural production of Benin. A walk through this big firm made discover any sorts of cultures, high animals and the way the Africans devote themselves to the task in these two domains. The visits on foot can be easily settled. The Center Songhaï also shelters a conference center. Hotel rooms, restaurant serving specialties so African as European are available on it, and a TV-center with very successful computers and access to the Internet in moderate prices. · Architectural heritage: URBANO TOURISME, un partenaire sûr pour le développement et la promotion du tourisme au Bénin, Afrique & Monde Porto-Novo said the " Red City " is characterized by an important architectural heritage of Afro-Brazilian type We shall quote among others the big mosque or the assembly, all characteristics of this architectural type: · Culture and Tradition Temples Vodoun Porto-Novo proposes several voodoo temples for which the temples of Three Hunters and Monstre-à-trois-têtes are most known. · Honmè palace: He is situated in the district Avassa, the royal district spread to the southeast of the city of Porto-Novo. Concrete witness of the architecture in the impluvium of kings yoruba, the Honmè palace was built by various kings from XVII e century. The structuring of the palatal space, spread on 2,5 hectares, continued until 1976, year during which the last occupant, king ALOHINTA GBEFFA, gave up the ghost. After a period of almost abandonment due to quarrels of succession to the URBANO TOURISME, un partenaire sûr pour le développement et la promotion du tourisme au Bénin, Afrique & Monde throne, the palace was classified domain of State in 1981. He benefited then from important works of restoration. Since February 05th, 1988, the body of the palace shelters the museum. On the West and in the South of the palace bloom temples, altars Vodoun and several funeral buildings to the memory of dead kings On the West and in the North of please one find various buildings with less religious character. Collections are established by rooms formerly used in the life of court: liturgical object, usual musical instruments, jar and rites, furniture of current usage. Ethnographical Alexandre-Sénou-Adandé museum. Installed in a building of colonial style built in 1992, the ethnographical museum is one of the Beninese museums the richest in collections. The building was used by the colonial state employees, then transformed into orphanage then popular educational center. The museum was create in 1966. Objects of exposition include an impressive diversity of mask guèledè, narrative and ironic meaning sculptures used by the tradition of masks remain very alive; she gives rise to shows Yorouba remain very alive; she gives rise to shows rich in colors.
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