Voodoo culture, ethnic groups, body modifications and peculiar constructions

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The Republic of Benin is a small country of great contrasts, full of ethnic and cultural diversity. In the south, the Atlantic coast, where the two big cities are located. Not far away is the city of Ganvié, whose peculiarity is that it is built on Lake Nokué. In the west, we find Ouidah, an old port of "export" of slaves and current capital of Voodoo.
In the interior of the country we find Abomey, the historic capital of the powerful kingdom of Dahomey, where we can find a set of World Heritage royal palaces, and where the greatest number of societies of Voodoo tradition is really concentrated. And further east, the Holi people, an ethnic group that traditionally "dressed" with very colorful tattoos and sharpened their teeth. In Dassa we find its emblematic hills.
The north is Otamari territory, an animist ethnic group with facial scarifications and builders of "tata somba", small "castles" built by hand. In the northern area there are also the Fula or Peulh, the most widespread ethnic group of semi-nomadic cattle breeders in Africa.