So this Saturday (being a day off and all) i decided to organize a little trip to a place called Ganvie. So i got myself 19 very decent people indeed, 1 boat and well 1 more person that knew where he was going and how to drive the boat and off we went!
So our destination was about an hour and 15 Min's away, the boat ride itself was pretty cool, we got to see just how the people of Benin fish. To sum it up, they all seems to do something different! Some with poles, some with nets, some with things that looked like cat baskets, and all sorts of other weird and wonderful ways to catch fish!
So Ganvie its self is a community of about 1000 people that all live in houses that are on the water, all on stilts pretty much, which is where it gets its name the village on stilts from i guess ;)
We got taken to three different locations, all pretty much gift shops. On the way we got to see peoples houses on water and people on canoe's everywhere!!! Its just so strange to imagine the life that they live, i cant even start to get my head around it.
pretty incredible stuff. i saw villages like this went i went to thailand.
ReplyDeleteall the stuff you're doing looks pretty amazing mate