Did you really go to Benin Republic if you didn't visit the Python temple in Ouidah? Ouidah is one of the towns in Benin Republic. In this town, pythons aren't feared but rather reverred and worshiped ...

OUIDAH, Benin – The deified residents of the Temple of Pythons, when released to find food, sometimes slither across the road into a Catholic church that once hosted Pope Benedict XVI. The local ...

OUIDAH, Benin (Reuters) - Modeste Zinsou, manager of Benin's Python Temple, gently drapes a live snake around a visitor's neck at the country's annual voodoo festival, as spectators learn about the ...

Our readers share tales of their ramblings around the world. Who: Kevin Alexander of Alexandria, Va. Where, when, why: In December, I traveled to Benin for two weeks to study Vodun, the ancient ...

BBN’s Antoinette Munirat Lecky has taken to her instagram to share a photo she took with a Python in Benin. The reality star visited The Temple of Python in Benin, an ancient site, where lots of ...

OUIDAH, Benin - The small club-shaped West African country of Benin is not on most tourists' radar but its palm-fringed white sand beaches in the south and surprisingly good wildlife parks in the ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. There are three types of magic in Benin. There’s the invisible kind, Vodun (voodoo ...

Correspondent Ed Davey and Ghanaian biochemist Jafar Habib visit the Temple of the Python, in Ouidah, Benin, a pilgrimage for many Voodoo believers. Benin is one of only two countries in the world to ...

See Quidah’s temple of pythons and quake! Perhaps, that is one caveat that is most apt for every first-time visitor to the cultural sanctuary luxuriating deep in the bowels of one of Benin Republic’s ...