Road clue guides · Africa
How to recognise Benin from the road
Drives on the right
Red earth roads, palm trees and motorbike taxis with yellow-shirted drivers.
What to look for
1
French signs
Signs are in French.
2
Zémidjans
Motorbike taxi drivers, called zémidjans, wear yellow shirts in Cotonou.
3
Red soil
Unpaved roads and verges are deep red.
4
Traffic on the right
Benin drives on the right.
5
Petrol in bottles
Roadside stalls sell petrol in glass bottles and jars, much of it brought in from Nigeria.
6
Palms along the road
Oil palms and coconut palms crowd the roadsides in the humid south, around Cotonou and Porto-Novo.
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