This cultural practice is still happening in Benin, West Africa 🇧🇯 |S7E59|

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This cultural practice is still happening in Benin, West Africa 🇧🇯 |S7E59|


In this episode, I ride to the north of Togo, and cross the border into Benin there. A full day on tarmac and it’s quite different from what I encounter on dirt roads. Many bad accidents with trucks and countless broken down trucks on the road. Riding on tarmac here seems a lot more dangerous then riding on dirt roads! The north part of Togo…

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  1. Please come to our country, Türkiye-Kahramanmaraş. I will try to help you in everything, free of charge. In this way, we can introduce our country and our city. I'm sure more tourists will come after you.

  2. Great video. I appreciate your interactions with the people. I would be afraid to travel in Africa given the violence that is reported so often in the media. It is so cool to see your travels on the roads, the hollow tree, the drone footage; all so beautiful. Thank you for sharing and explaining the scarification. Really enjoy watching your videos. Thank you. Be safe and happy, always.

  3. Thanks Norally, really great channel. I would like to hear more of your comments on the local food especially and any comments on culture. And perhaps you could drop words of wisdom for anyone tempted to follow your footsteps. But hey – Much Respect : )))

  4. Hi Noraly!. I love watching your videos. Hats off to yu for travelling all alone across the world. An Inspiration you are for many. I am Hemant from India New Delhi. I wish you the best of travel experiences for me to enjoy.

  5. Noraly i enjoy every one of your videos. I especially loved this one because it seemed more in depth and i love learning about customs and ways of other countries. Thank you for sharing with us.

  6. I would like to know why in the first 10 seconds of the video we see a single tractor trailer halfway in the ditch and blocking half the road, is such a common image in Africa? Are the drivers that terrible, the road conditions playing a part or lack of maintenance on the trucks?

  7. Nice views . Am from Nigeria, Benin is on my bucket list. This terrain is similar to where I schooled. Oyo town is most likely to be on the same terrain. The beans confirm it. We had those trees around Owini. We used to go hunt for them. The yellow part is very sweet, you leak it until the seed remains and you throw it away. It is a giant tree that bears those and the seed is like beans. I do not know if they are cooked. It will take a long while to get soft, I think that is what that guy was trying to explain .

  8. I forget all else while watching your videos. Fascinating to see Benin and the houses. All those trucks earlier were terrifying though.  
    I used to encounter a striking, handsome regular commuter also on subway ride to work and he had scarification. We greeted one another in passing a few times but I could never be so personal as to ask him about his facial scarification. I wish I knew now!

  9. I'm happy you got to your destination. It's very hard to ride in deep sand. Only 2 strokes will get through it yet very sketchy at best with trees around you. Good luck on your next adventure. We will be watching.