Music and dance is very important in the culture in Benin. Visit our website for more information or to book a tour: http://www.lirokotours.com
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Opening of our new office in Agla Cotonou Benin
Opening of our new office in Agla Cotonou Benin
This week our office in Agla, Cotonou, Benin is opened. Enthousiastic reviews, because it is not according the common concept. Our travel agency is also the home for a coffeeshop, which you cannot find in many places in Cotonou. A good cup of coffee is hard to find. Also some more luxury kinds of beer. Another shop is the Gallery, where you can buy Arts and also some fashion.
Lovely snacks from the patisserie
Colleague Joëlle
Me with customers
Even some Dutchies
At the gallery
Some more snacks
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Photos by: Cora Unk Photo
Carnaval in Grand Popo 2015
Source: Carnaval in Grand Popo 2015
Carnaval in Grand Popo 2015
Yes, you can celebrate Carnaval in Grand Popo, Benin, Africa! Music, dance, culture and voodoo can be seen and heared! This year it was held from 28-30 August 2015.
Zangbeto voodoo, the night watcher
Different Folklore groups to see
Drums are a very important instrument
Dancing in front of the group
the Voodoo group is dressed in white
Another group
Walking on stilts
Miss Carnaval Popo and her staff on the way
Photos made by: Cora Unk Photo
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Market in Benin
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African Portraits
I like to make portraits of people, especially the motion on their faces. These photos are made in Benin. Smiling children! Photos shot by: Cora Unk Photo Source: African Portraits
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Traditional music in Benin
Yam Festival in Savalou
Pounded Yam in a Restaurant in Benin
Yam pounding in a Restaurant in Benin
Yam is grown in center and North of Benin. In Savalou it is a tradition to celebrate yam. Than every 15th of August people of Savalou and the king celebrate Yam festival. In this festival it is said that the ancestors and the divinities must taste the new yam before the human. That day the yam is cooked and give to divinities as sacrifice after that it is share to Savalou people and the guest. All Savalou people come out in their traditional dressing. It is a great celebration in which you can see all traditional musics and religion. The city is always full with people and there are many traditional events.
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