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Popular Things To Do | Other Things To Do Tips | All Tips (24) After travelling in the rural northern areas of Cote d' Ivoire and in the brousse, where the local people use mainly natural materials and colours, there couldn't be a bigger contrast with the architecture and use of materials in the citycentre of Abidjan.
At Le Plateau in the citycentre of Abidjan you see many modern buildings with the use of a lot of glass... Leave a Comment
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Abidjan is a city of contrasts, hte city has two faces. At one hand there are the living districts, where the ordinary people live, like in Treichville. These areas have low and traditional buildings .
And at the other hand you have Le Plateau. At Le plateau you can find skyscrapers and other high and modern buildings. Here are the ministeries and offices. Leave a Comment
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Because I had to wait till the Musée National, where you can find wonderful art objects as statues, masks, pottery, bronze and ivory was closed during the lunch break, I visited in the meantime on my way to the museum this modern cathedral with its futurist shape. It was the St Pauls Cathedral. Leave a Comment Directions: Le Plateau, at the end of the Boulevard de la République.
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I entered the cathedral and was surprised. From the inside you have a great look at the the beautiful and colourfull windows, telling the stories of the bible. It was nice to see, that the people on the images have black faces.
You have to go inside the cathedral to see the bright colours. From the outside you can hardly imagine this brightness of the colours. Leave a Comment Directions: Le Plateau, at the end of the Boulevard de la République.
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When I had a closer look at the white building, I saw it was a minstery. I was very surprised, when I red the sign to see that this building was of the '' Minestère of la promotion de la femme", ministery of the promotion of the women.
I was especially curious about what the task of this ministery would be ... Leave a Comment
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The St Paul Cathedral in Abidjan is a modern eye-catching cathedral. The cathedral is designed by an Italian architect and consecrated by the pope in 1985.
The cathedral is open for the public,everyday from 8 am till 7 pm. Leave a Comment Directions: Le Plateau, at the end of the Boulevard de la République.
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Between the modern skyscrapers in the citycentre of Abidjan, you can also see buildings of another size and form.
These white buildings with two storeys looked more like the buildings, I was used to see in the West-African towns. Leave a Comment
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I was lucky enough to visit a village on one of the Lagoons, I was treated like a king and offered to sit with the village elders and share a meal, we had Fish and a type of semolina or grated dried Plantain??
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If you are traveling on buisness and at the Intercontinental hotel this is the Conference?exhibition hall attached and more than likely where exhibitions and meetings will be held the hotel has every amenity you could want
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Once you get out of the city the rugged countryside with its bright red clay soil is a sight to behold, the roads are very poor , dont atempt in the rainy season
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on April 23, 2005
on September 22, 2005
