The Best Time To Visit

Benin is a West Africa located along the Atlantic. Its location gives it a very varied climate from North to South, but in general it has a tropical hot and humid. In the South, the climate is sub-equatorial with the rainy season and dry season ranging respectively from April to July and October to November. The temperature is between 18 ° to 35 ° C. As in the North, there is a tropical climate with a rainy season which runs from June to October and a dry season the rest of the year. The temperature is more varied than in the South and can reach up to 46 ° C during the hottest periods of the year. The period from November to December is the period where there is less rain. The hottest months are April and May between the continental Harmattan, the dry monsoon oceanic humid.

Just to share in West Africa, Benin is more prosperous than its neighbors and has many attractions.

Discover the first official capital, Porto Novo, with its mosque, old style church in Brazil, the ethnographic museum, not to mention the market of Adjara, lively and colorful, where you'll find beautiful pottery.

Cotonou is the capital of another country, its dynamism and its economic activity: bars and restaurants, a huge market of Benin, and the lakeside of Ganvié a little further north with its huts on stilts are a destination very attractive.

Ouidah is another interesting site for a rich cultural perspective: several museums, temples, but also the Slave Route, which commemorates the route taken by slaves to win the boats they tore their land, and is now dotted with statues and fetishes, but also beautiful beaches, steps are not missed.

Natitingou in the mountains of Atakora, will reveal through its Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions of the Somba culture, and is also an opportunity to discover the National Park Pendjari magnificent natural biosphere reserve where animals live in their native environment: you will cross cheetahs, lions, leopards, jackals, elephants, antelopes and hippos, among others.

The constant journey will inevitably warm hospitality shown by Benin.

Benin is well served by airlines from France or Belgium.

A visa is required to enter the territory.

The currency is the CFA franc.

The budget anticipated a little higher than in other African countries, remains very reasonable: around 15 € for a double room and correct less than 10 € for an average meal. You can eat for almost ten times less if you buy local food in small shops that swarm the streets and markets.

Regarding safety precautions, be sure to have your vaccinations up to date before you leave. Protect yourself against mosquitoes to prevent malaria, and be vaccinated against yellow fever and typhoid, as well as against hepatitis B. Avoid tap water and raw vegetables, and wash your hands before handling food.

Travel within the country are in a mini-bus or taxi-bush, for very affordable prices.

Finally, remember that haggling is here an essential mode of exchange and that any purchase will discuss ... more or less time!