Peace Corps Pictures Post

The beach near Ouidah where slaves boarded ships.


Feeding fish maggots at a local sustainable agriculture center.


The grand Voodoo temple in Porto-Novo


The view from the top of the Voodoo Temple in Porto-Novo

The former home of the King in the Sacred Forest near Ouidah. Ouidah was the point of embarcation for all slaves leaving Benin. Today, there is no sign that there was once a active slave trade there. Its bizare, I'm not sure if its a good thing that the community has moved on or sad that such suffering left so little evidence to remember it by.

Tree in the Sacred Forest

Traditional dance in the south.

My host dad and I wearing the same tissue on our way to a funeral. Funeral here are hardly sombre, more like celebrations and the community has them periodically to remember a person who may have died long ago. On this day, I went to three! Oy!

This needs no explaination.

Volunteers on the way to an outting.

Porto-Novo

Host brother touching my hair while saying, "Wow! You have hair like a horse!"

TEFL and Rural Health volunteers in Ouidah.

Host siblings.