AGONGOINTO-ZOUNGOUDO UNDERGROUND VILLAGE
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.
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However, the information given above as in the guide erroneous is or not updated: the site is open during the rainy season, you should contact the mayor or anyone before arriving on site and it is not either the mayor who visit but a qualified guide (in any case for our section). The guide does not go down either in the houses before you make aparté " the snakes cracheurs"! funny history... the entrance is not 1000F CFA but 2000F for foreigners and a contribution of 500F is asked to take pictures. The visit is very well structured and course includes several stages (sacred trees, showroom, underground house, gardens with butterflies, etc.).
It is a place that we highly recommend fortunately that we did not trust the guide if not us it would ever have discovered by thinking that it was closed in rainy season... It would be important that information on this place is updatings so that the managers of the site can remove the sign unattractive which is at the entrance and precise visitors that the information given in the guide Petit Futé is fake...
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Par contre à l'entrée il y a une lutte entre un baobab et un ficus qui vaut la peine. Les deux arbres sont imbriqués depuis de longues années et on se demande lequel survivra. Probablement le baobab d'après le guide local.
Petit musée pas très intéressant.