Oida "The Gate of No Return"

We did a day trip to Oida, "The Gate of no return. This is a monument where the africans were taken as slaves.

These are just some buildings we saw.
Then we went to another monument for the first Priest to Benin. This was the side we came up on first as we walked from the "Gate of no return" up the beach to this on. It is the country of Benin with a cross in the center.

To our surprise and delight this was what was on the other side of the memorial!

Me and Becca

We also went to a slave museum inside one of the old mission camps. A beninese man did our tour. He surprised us being very good at english. The museum told of the wars between tribes, the ways of chiefs and villages, the conditions of slaves being transported and things they made. etc. It was sad but very interesting to learn the history. Our guide told us that we should go see the tree of return. This is a picture of that. It has things carved in it from people that were able to come back.