Lagos is the most populous city in Nigeria, the largest country in Africa. The metropolitan area, about 300 square kilometers, is a set of islands with streams and lagoons.
If you’re planning to visit Lagos anytime soon, here are some tips on what you must do and plan to see.
1. Lekki Conservation Center – LCC is part of the Nigeria Conservation Foundation (NCF). The center is located on the famous Lekki peninsula and covers 78 hectares of land.
The LCC aims to protect wildlife found in Nigeria’s southwestern coastal environment, which is constantly experiencing urban development.
The center attracts local and international visitors and often offers environmental education lessons for tourists and school groups.
2. Black Heritage Museum – Founded in part by a Nigerian cultural commission, the Black Heritage Museum preserves artifacts and records from the slave route that once passed through Badagry.
As you tour the museum’s nine galleries, you’ll be confronted with sobering reminders like recovered business documents, sketches, photographs, sculptures and other historical records that documented the city’s dark past.
As well as the Heritage Museum, the entire town of Badagry is a living historical museum, from the 1502 open market where slaves were auctioned off to the makeshift baracoon cells used to hold slaves to the final exit routes used in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. to move slaves to the Point of No Return at the tip of the peninsula.
3. Liberty Lakes Park
Freedom Park is a memorial and leisure park dedicated to preserving the colonial heritage of Lagos and the history of Old Board Street Prison.
The park has a wide range of facilities, such as an amphitheater, skeleton cells, food courts, ponds and fountains, pergola cells with internet booths, historical exhibits, souvenir shops, and a museum complex.
4. Lekki Market
Known locally as Jakande Market, due to the slum buildings in the area, this little hidden market includes stall after stall of artisans selling beadwork, textiles, handmade crafts, paintings, masks, wood carvings, and other cultural artifacts.
In short, this is where you go to buy cheap but attractive cultural souvenirs. Haggling is recommended for lower prices here.
Located along the Lekki Peninsula, this market is extremely difficult to get to because it doesn’t have a real physical address, website, or contact information, so you’ll have to rely on your hotel staff and taxi driver to get there. It can also be a challenge to navigate without 4 wheel drive during the rainy season with high waters.
5. Synagogue Church Of All Nations
The Church welcomes visitors, however arrangements must be made in advance.
Almost everyone who goes there stays for a week to pray and attend services, fellowship with other worshipers, and be inspired by the simple, practical teaching of God’s Word.
You could witness incredible healings, shocking deliverance, remarkably accurate prophetic messages, a 12-hour service, teaching, friendly workers, and an atmosphere of faith, love, and generosity.