Benin, a small country in West Africa open to Gulf of Guinea at its southern tip, an ethnic mosaic that preserves Indigenous traditions and languages despite the effects of French colonisation. Benin is a place seemingly frozen in time, with very little tourism, a painful history of slavery and a long road to development. It is also the birthplace of voodoo.
There are many lakes in the world, formed by a wide variety of geological processes and forces within the earth. What distinguishes many of them is the life that thrives around them in all its forms, from unspoilt nature to human activity. Water is life.
One of the most striking and special localities of Benin We found it in the Lake Nokoué, near the coastal city of Cotonou. Above its waters rises the city of Ganvié, displaying a curious architecture and way of life fully adapted to the circumstances.