Ganvié
Ganvie is a lake village in Benin, Africa, lying in Lake Nokoué, near Cotonou.
Ganvie is a lake village in Benin, Africa, lying in Lake Nokoué, near Cotonou. With a population of around 20,000 people, it is probably the largest lake village in Africa and is very popular with tourists.
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Worth seeing in and around Ganvié
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Lake Nokoué
Lake Nokoué is a lake in the southern part of Benin. It is 20 km wide and 11 km long and covers an area of 4,900 ha.
3.9 km · lake in Benin · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ganvié
- Airports
- Cotonou Cadjehoun (COO), 13 km · Murtala Muhammed (LOS), 101 km · Lomé–Tokoin (LFW), 133 km
- Lagos → Ganvié111 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · ₦8,100–10,800
- Lomé → Ganvié135 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · $13–18
- Accra → Ganvié304 km · quickest by road, 6h 26m · GH₵195–260
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ganvié
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ganvié. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundHire a pirogue and explore the village on your own.
From Wikivoyage: Ganvie, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-11.
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Next door to Ganvié
Ganvié is 7 km from Abomey-Calavi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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