22/04/2022
VISIT BENIN
In accordance with its tradition of hospitality and in view of its tourist resources, both natural and socio-cultural, Benin has always been a country open to tourism.
Indeed, Benin conceals natural, rich and varied tourist attractions that cover the entire national territory.
The tourist who visits Benin, finds on a reduced surface, all that tourist Africa offers: beaches of coconut palms with fine sand, rivers and rivers where fish abounds, lakeside villages on stilts, historical and ethnographic museums, clinging dwellings on the bare slopes of the hills, miniature fortified castles, intrepid riders, abundant and varied fauna and flora, national parks and reserves, living folklore and art, a holy and pleasant climate, populations with a permanent smile and legendary hospitality...
This immense heritage also presents enriching specificities from one region to another.
Benin is positioned very favorably in relation to potential customers and in relation to its regional competitors, in two niches: “natural” tourism: viewing and hunting in national parks, ecotourism on lagoons and rivers; “cultural” tourism:
royal palaces, historic towns, vodoo.
Parks, museums, art, culture and accommodation establishments also constitute the elements of an immense and diversified tourist offer.
Benin's reserves are among the most remarkable in Africa: elephants, buffaloes, hippopotamuses, hypotragues, lions, cheetahs, caimans, antelopes, various birds and others live side by side in all seasons.
Throughout the national territory, artists and craftsmen work with wood, c Ioopper, iron and bronze, producing original objects in the craft villages.
Vestiges of culture and witnesses of a civilization, museums in Benin attract the curiosity of visitors of all origins.
Benin has several museums including: the Abomey Historical Museum; the Ethnographic Museum of Porto-Novo;
the Honmè museum in Porto-Novo;
the historical museum of Ouidah.
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