Back in Cape...oh wait, nevermind...

Well, we got back from Benin last Thursday. How to descirbe Benin...well, lets just say that its a place I would really like going back to. While there in Cotonu, we learned that Benin was where Vodun (Voodoo) originated from, and we got to go visit a Sacred Forest and the Temple of Pythons. The forests was alright, but it was mostly just there for tourists...we only saw about a 50 meter patch, and since we aren't members of Vodun we couldn't go to the actually sacred part. One the other hand, The Temple of Pythons was incredible. When we got there, someone explained the layout of the Temple and showed us some drawings of what a ritual might look like. Then he led us to a room with scores of pythons just chillin', all piled up on one another in different corners. Then he picked one up and preceeded to put it around his neck. After that, we thought it would be fun to put it around all of our necks, one by one. It was a really strange feeling to have this 3 foot long piece of muscle just hanging around my nech, mostly because i could feel its muscles contracting and expanding as it moved around. So that was really cool. Another really cool part of Benin is their taxi system. There are very few taxi cars, but lots and lots of motorbike taxis. So one afternoon a group of 6 of us created a motorcycle gang and cruised around the city on the backs of motorbikes. So like I said, I really want to go back to Benin. Now its Monday, I just finished a research paper on Vodun in Benin, and in about 3 hours I will get on an intercity bus with 5 of my friends and we are all moving to Accra today for our ISP's. We managed to find a short term hostel for us to stay in tonight, and from there we are still in he market for a permament housing option, so wish us luck. I hope everyone is doing well back home and I can't wait to show you some of the pictures that I'm getting (sorry, none with me and python, my hands were otherwise occupied at the time). Peace.