GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Ouidah is a city on the coast of the Republic of Benin, known for its role in the 17th- to 19th-century Atlantic slave trade. The Slave Route, a track down which slaves were taken to the ships, is lined with monuments. The Ouidah Museum of History, based in an 18th-century Portuguese fort, chronicles the city’s slave-trading past.
FABIO'S REVIEW
Ouidah is one of the most interesting places in Benin. The slave trade monuments, the crumbling colonial buildings, the voodoo temples, the snakes! Also, a voodoo festival is organized once a year – usually in January (I visited in May and missed it).
I wouldn't live in Ouidah as the infrastructure is not sufficient, but would almost rate the place as a ""must-see"" for its historical and cultural value.
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Ouidah is a city that lies on the Atlantic coast of Benin. Tourist attractions in Ouidah include a restored mansion of Brazilian slavers, the Maison du Brésil art gallery, a voodoo python temple, an early twentieth-century basilica and the Sacred Forest of Kpasse, dotted with bronze statues.
CITY CENTER
Ouidah is a city that lies on the Atlantic coast of Benin. Tourist attractions in Ouidah include a restored mansion of Brazilian slavers, the Maison du Brésil art gallery, a voodoo python temple, an early twentieth-century basilica and the Sacred Forest of Kpasse, dotted with bronze statues.
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