Tourist Attractions & Monuments Benin

The temple of Dangbe is devoted to the cult of python, with dozens of specimens preaching in one of the small squares. If you want to have a python around your neck, the guide will be happy to pass it through, with a small ticket. Otherwise he will talk to you about python, venerated god venerated to Grand-Popo, where his ornamental representation of many temples. In Ouidah, the xweda and fon families practicing the Dangbè python (also called Dan) are distinguished by scarifications symbolizing the frontal marks of python.

A museum that constitutes an introduction to the culture of this region of Benin, especially to guélédé societies. But the interest in the collection is really limited.

You can also see musical instruments and dance accessories, such as the sacred drums of Nikki and Porto-Novo, horns, cithares as well as ritual instruments used to interrogate Fa and weapons… Collections are very rich, but because of lack of space, one part is on reserve. We cannot tell you what will be displayed at the time of your visit.

The inhabitants of the village come to buy them and even take their toilet… You can visit the bottling plant, after asking for permission from the management.

The Underground Village is an open-air museum with 56 of the 1 600 underground houses listed on the Plateau of Abomey. Dating back to 1711-1742, these underground houses would have served as a refuge and shelter. The tour circuit, a trail mapped in latérite through a beautiful vegetation, includes a reception room, a mock-up room, a reference shelter, altars and sacred temples testifying to the internal organization of the society and the religious and mystical life of the first occupants of the site, a showroom of the remains recovered during excavations, a play space for the excavations. children, the Mèdemian, the underground house consisting of a main bedroom (lounge) and three secondary rooms (bedrooms), and a butterfly garden to highlight the biodiversity of the environment…

To note that for ritual reasons it is desirable not to wear red clothing, and that be equipped with closed footwear is recommended.

Above the palace, a huge, split stone stone named Okèyité overlooks the valley. To climb up there and enjoy an exceptional panorama, you must go to the Essébré district, located at the foot of the hill. Then, after hitting the homes to ask (if possible) the help of a resident (Gabriel Badjéhoun, for example, if he is not in the fields), you will begin your ascent by the right. Past the houses, especially women who prepare sesame, stairs help to cross the first and short part of the journey. After you have circumvented the superimposed, you will start the road to the induction of the new kings, the first necessary stop, commented on by a guide. Then, with a slightly sporty ascent, you will reach the plateau, with, for horizon, the roofs of Dassa on your left (and the cemetery of Princes, forbidden to visit, on the hillside) as well as palm groves and other teckeraies on your right. Behind you, the tiled tombs of the Idjéhoun-Eyo family continue to welcome the dead of this lineage from Nigeria hundreds of years ago.