If you thought flights and cars were the only ways to reach your next destination, think again. These unique cities around ...

Floating villages and cities are marvels of human resilience and ingenuity. These communities defy the ordinary, they don't ...

Watch footage from a boat tour around the Venice of West Africa.

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 ...

How the floating village of Ganvie employed socio-ecological aquacultural systems to define their architecture and Urban environment.

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

This is one of the smaller stilt houses in Ganvie, Benin, where people have lived along the water for centuries. Photo: Iwan Baan After the devastating 2011 tsunami, the Japanese government spent ...

Ganvie Weather Forecasts. Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weatherreports, maps & tropical weather conditions for the Ganvie area.

Heritage Site 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.

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Ganvie has been dubbed the "Venice of Africa" not only because it is built on water, but also because of its diverse historical, cultural and touristic sites.