Ouidah was a day trip from Cotonou. It had an interesting museum, a "temple of serpents" housing dozens of pythons, a road slaves walked down on their way to the ships, and a sculpture garden.
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A view of the Point of No Return on the beach, where slaves boarded ships to America or Brazil.
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Slavery has fortunately been abolished throughout the world. This man is carrying bricks on his head in the blazing sun because he wants to. Around the Point of No Return...
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The guide at the Forêt Sacrée de Kpasse. This park surrounds the Iroko tree into which the spirit of King Kpasse passed on his whatever-he-did-instead-of-death. The park was almost destroyed under the Marxist regime but is now a popular tourist site.
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A statue with three heads. The Father Son and Holy Ghost, I suppose.
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A fertility statue. You guessed.
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On to Cotonou
