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Ivory Coast · Lagunes & Sud-Comoé

Abidjan, Grand-Bassam & Assinie

📷 Grand-Bassam-Plage.jpg : Nova3web derivative work: JamesA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

The German Foreign Office advises against travel to parts of Ivory Coast. Read the advice (German Foreign Office)

The skyline of West Africa’s boom city, a faded colonial capital by the sea and lagoon beaches.

Abidjan is West Africa’s fastest-growing city, a skyline on a lagoon with a lively maquis food scene and a nightlife known across the continent. Grand-Bassam, the first colonial capital, has fading French buildings between the lagoon and the ocean and is a UNESCO site; further east, Assinie is the weekend beach on a sandbar between lagoon and sea.

Known for

  • Photography
  • Nature
  • Beach
  • Food
Travel guide on Wikivoyage ↗

Best time to visit

The best months for Abidjan, Grand-Bassam & Assinie are January, February, March and December.

Suggested route

6 nights across 3 stops. Jourimo adjusts it to the length of your trip.

  1. 1Abidjan · 2 nights
  2. 2Grand-Bassam · 2 nights
  3. 3Assinie · 2 nights