Pirogue sunset in Benin

By Carlo Alcos On October 24, 2009 · 2 Comments

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Pirogue sunset in Benin

Pirogue sunset in Benin

Photo: ljgolden

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Carlo Alcos

Carlo Alcos is the editor of Brave New Traveler and co-founder of Confronting Love. He blogs about his travels and life in general at Vagabonderz.com. You can also find him at the yoga studio and tweeting away as @vagab0nderz.

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http://www.collazoprojects.com Julie

Benin is high on the list of places I want to visit.

Linda

I don’t really know anything about it! I was only there for a few days for a conference, at the end of which we took motorcycles to this little village where they take you out on a canoe to look for the two hippos that live in the lake. But the park (Pendjaré?) in the north is supposed to be good for safari (in West Africa). And it looked beautiful from the bus we took north. Had some amazingly good fufu.

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