Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
December
High season is very much underway south of the Sahara, and you should make ac-
commodation bookings months in advance; beach areas are particularly busy with
sun-starved Europeans. Weather mild and dry.
Igue Festival
Also called the Ewere Festival, this colourful seven-day festival in Benin City, Nigeria, in
the first half of the month, showcases traditional dances, mock battles and a procession to
the palace to reaffirm local loyalty to the
oba
(king).
