The lake village of Ganvié, known as the Venice of West Africa, is home to a population of fishermen. Lake Nokoué, where it sits, is a shallow stretch of water on the outskirts of the Beninois capital ...

Ganvie was founded by the Tofinu tribe, a population of West Africans skilled in fishing, who was known as "watermen" and lived on the coast of Benin before the 17th century. They moved their ...

LAGOS – Lake Nokoue is a lake in the Southern of Benin Republic and the biggest in the entire country. The natural lake is 20km wide and 11km long and covers an area of 4,900 hectares 12,000 acres.

A lot of things in this world are strange, strange in their own inexplicable way! Something of the sort you’ll get to notice in Africa too. There’s a lovely village here in Benin called Ganvie, also ...

Resting along the northern coast of Benin's Lake Nokoué is a quaint fishing village that over the years has become one of the country's most alluring tourist destinations. Ganvie – whose restaurants, ...

The lake village of Ganvié, the largest lakeside village in Africa, can be found on a shallow stretch of water on the outskirts of the Beninois capital, Cotonou. It's home to a population of fishermen ...

The city of Venice, Italy, is one of the most famous tourist destinations in the world. Known internationally for being a city crossed by canals, Venice attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists who ...

A region of Benin that has been dubbed the ‘Venice of Africa’ is attracting more tourists than ever before. Ganvie village was built in the middle of Lake Nokoué 400 years ago and its unique history ...

Ganvie is a town in the West African republic of Benin that rises out of the surface of a lake. The sprawling grid that surrounds its clustered houses and public buildings is not filled with the ...