Experiences
From Place Chacha to the Door of No Return, the six stations of memory, with a guide from Ouidah.
You walk the way you listen. The guide stops at each station, tells the story and lets silence do the rest.
The route is just over 3 km long to the beach. You go at your own pace.
Stop 1 on the Slave RouteThe former auction square, where the captives’ walk to the sea began.
According to tradition, captives were made to walk around it to forget their origins.
“Where fire does not enter”: remembering captives held in darkness.
Stop 4 on the Slave RouteA place of remembrance on the site of a mass grave.
The hope that the captives’ souls would one day return to their ancestors’ land.
Stop 6 on the Slave RouteOn the beach, facing the Atlantic, the monument marking the place of forced embarkation.
