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Ganvie was submitted to UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1996, and boat rentals on the lake have made it one of the nation’s most popular tourist attractions.

How to reach Ganvie? Reaching Ganvie is not a difficult task given the lake village thrives on tourism. It takes around 4 hours of boat rides to reach here from the capital city Cotonou.

Located in the southern part of Benin-Republic, near the port city of Cotonou, is Ganvie; the largest floating village in Africa.It is situated in the middle of Lake Nokoué and is characterized ...

Ganvie – whose restaurants, bars, bungalows and hotels are situated on the water – has come to be known as the "Venice of Africa." Not so long ago, most of the village's 30,000 residents had ...

Lake Nokoué in Benin is home to 80,000 people who live in 42 small stilted villages. The largest of these is Ganvié.

Dahomey, Ganvie. Women at shore market. sell fish, buy other foods. Feb.-Mar. 1971. EE. neg.no. VIII-36, 31A." The card was written in 1977-79 by Archives staff using source provided by photographer.

Lake Nokoué in Benin is home to 80,000 people who live in 42 small stilted villages. The largest of these is Ganvié.