Some Videos of Benin!

At the 50th parade

Old man dancing. He was pretty awesome

Zangbeto! The haystack voodoo spirit. He's usually pretty benign and just wants money from observers. I'm like 90% certain that the guy inside the zangbeto just downs a pint of sodabee before climbing inside. Sodabee is really raunchy moonshine, cheap and effective, can make you go blind...but everyone loves it here.

This is a bit of the journey from Lalo back to Porto Novo, an example of driving "en brousse" or, "in the bush". If you have to pee you just go off into the brush a bit and go...but not too far because there are monkeys and snakes!

Photos and Videos from the fete!

Some bomb ass tissue prints of some kids during the flag raising.

The kids here really like getting their picture taken. These girls were hanging out at the mayor's house after the parade and eating some snacks they bought of of a maman's head.

This girl was almost lost in a sea of singing ladies during the parade, but I snapped this quick picture of her.

The internet is being pretty shady, but that seems to be typical here haha. These pictures are from the 50th independence day on the 1st of August. Enjoy!

I'm not sure if the video will work, but it's a few seconds of this guy who was encouraged to go out and dance to the drums and he went out there and kicked some ass.

This is a video of a women's group who rocked at the parade.