Milky, tasty, fresh, chilly, awesome, tantalizing, alluring, refreshing, invigorating, revitalizing, breath-taking, amazing…. is the calabash of Palm wine served at Terra Kulture in Victoria Island, Lagos. The noon sun burned mercilessly over the skies of the busy Island and the breeze from the nearby Kuramo Beach being quenched by the blazing solar heat could not [...]

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(Story by Jamaican travel blogger Marcia Mayne of InsideJourneys) Abeokuta Paradise Nature Park (pronounced A-be-o-ku-ta*) is located a few yards off the Dean’s Valley Road in Westmoreland. The centrepiece of this rustic eco-tourism destination is an almost Olympic-sized pool which is fed by water that is channelled via an aqueduct from the nearby Sweet River. [...]

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Within the belly of Omi-Ìwò cave, the hydraulic sound of a crystal clear spring mixed with the whirring calls of resident bats disvirgin the air. A blinding beam of light pierces the torn rock and illuminates a small pool of water within the cave, from which flowed the stream which the people call “Ìwò”. The [...]

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 The setting sun blew a blanket of colours across the reposed skies, casting it in brilliant shades of gold and yellow bands set against an enchanting backdrop of sky-blue hue. It’s 6:30pm at Eagle Island in Port-Harcourt and a group of rustic boys had turned a sand-filled creek-side into a football pitch. The fallow stretch [...]

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 A mysterious chain of deep valleys jewelled the charming landscape of Enugu City; and steep walls of stratified rocks beatify the confines of these valleys, within which outcrop the ‘black gold’ of ancient Nigeria: the black gold that powered our railways and brought us fortune for decades.   Iva Valley is one of these valleys. [...]

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They both sat with brazen faces; each facing the other and starring rascally into each other’s eyes. The one on my right decided to launch the daring attack: stretching his hand to pick his last seeds from the rustic Ayò-olópón reposed between them. He was going to make his final cast. The ambiance was on [...]

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The plains stretched as far as the eyes could see, and the sleepy horizon was obscured by massive cones of varying colours- some lush green, and others, earthly brown, jutting out into the skies and standing imposingly like enormous sand heaps on a village farm. These are none but the volcanoes that blew Jos Plateau [...]

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   My abode is the Delta. I was carved from its timber, old, strong and un-withered. Until a creek has to be crossed, or islands to be hopped, I stay quiet, moored and tied in ropes of jute to my master’s private jetty- a jetty of rough planks hewn from the delta’s mangroves. Both night [...]

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A poultry of multicoloured avians laced the banks of a waning narrow creek. Although it was mid-day, the waters appeared to have fallen asleep, wrapped in a blanket of verdant colours, as a poultry of 7 birds gently suck from its muddy edge. These birds I have never seen before, and these I beheld and [...]

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  Rapid knocks of sunrise rap on my louver blade. The night is over again. It’s been three days, and the various events of the Orosun Festival are gaining momentum. Exciting thoughts of exploring one of the largest caves in SW Nigeria rock my mind. The people say Owa Cave is so big, it can [...]

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