🇧🇯 Today's country is Benin. 10 January is a public holiday for Vodun. Ouidah smells of wood smoke, sea salt and sodabi, and one minute you are at the Temple of Pythons, the next at a Catholic basilica. In Abomey, red-earth courtyards and bas-reliefs turn the kings of Dahomey from textbook names into people with rivals, mothers and war plans. Then dawn breaks on Ganvie and the lake fills with canoes selling tomatoes, petrol and school notebooks from house to house. 📍 Places to visit •… See more