Arrival and Escape from Cotonou

Although, we are back in Cotonou right now, our short trip to Ouidah yesterday was a really nice relief to the smoky, noisy and traffic overburden Cotonou. Since we arrived in Cotonou on Wednesday, we are stuck here because the baggage of Mela (we are heading to Togo to do our internship there). The whole city smells like a petrol station and if there is no traffic-jam because of the thousands of tucks, moto-taxis are hunting you in herds. Nevertheless, the motos are by far the quickest vehicles to escape the smoky center.

Of course it was also by moto, that we went to the beach in Ouidah. The town was one of the big slavery markets on the west african coast and you can visit an old portuguese fort which remained Portuguese until independence also the old kingdom of Dahomey became a French colony long ago. Then of course, it was time to have a rest on the beach…