Abeokuta, under the rock and other Nigeria Things to Do Tips

Abeokuta, rocks

The name ''Abeokuta'' means ''under the rock''. At many places in the town you can see the rocks at the background.Abeokuta is known because of the sacred Olumu rock. This rock is used in all kind of rituals and celebrations. A guide can bring you to the top of the rock, show you some caves and a shrine and give some explanation about the rituals.

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Directions: Abeokuta is 70 KM north of Lagos.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abeokuta

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Things To Do: Abeokuta, market

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Abeokuta, market

In Abeokuta we visited the lifely market in the citycentre. I bought peanutbutter, tomatosauce, maggi and all kind of vegetables for making the West African groundnutsoup, that I learned to cook in Ghana many years ago.

Except food you can also find many other goods and materials at the market, like the indigo adire cloth, created by the Yoruba people.

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Directions: Abeokuta is 70 KM north of Lagos.

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Things To Do: Abeokuta, town

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Abeokuta, street near the centre

The town of Abeokuta was not very exciting. Except the market and the rocks, there was not much to see. So, I just strolled around a bit and visited the internet cafes regularly, waiting for the visa from Lagos.

Unlike Lagos, Abeokuta looked a rather safe town. Further Abeokuta is known, being the birthplace of the writer Wole Soyinka and the musician Fela Kuti. And the president has also his residence in Abeokuta, not far from our hotel.

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Directions: 70 KM north of Lagos.

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Things To Do: Abuja, the capital of Nigeria.

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on Dec 15, 2005

Abuja, Wusedistrict

Because the city of Lagos was too unmanageable, the Nigerian government decided to build a new capital for the country, like Brasilia. They choosed for an undeveloped area out of control of any ethnic group.

In the early 80s the construction of the new city started, but because of the reducing of the oil-boom, the construction of Abuja also slowed down and many parts of the city are still unfinished.

We stayed near the Wuse district, less modern and not so large-scaled as other parts of the town.

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Directions: Abuja is about 750 KM north-east of Lagos.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuja

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Things To Do: Abuja, new mosque and other new buildings

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Abuja, mosque

Some of the new modern buildings of Abuja are finished, like the presidential guesthouse, the law courts and the huge mosque. We stayed near the -at night brilliantly lit- mosque. So this enormous building was a good landmark for us.

Allthough some ministries are still in Lagos, many official functions are allready moved to Abuja. So Abuja is slowly becoming the actual capital of Nigeria.

For some visa we had still to go to Lagos, for others we could find the embassies in Abuja.

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Directions: Abuja is about 750 KM north-east of Lagos

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Things To Do: Abuja, boulevards and streets

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Abuja, near the Sheraton Hotel

Abuja has a lot of wide boulevards. Some of them have hardly any traffic.

In the Wuse district and the area west of the Sheraton Hotel near Herbert Macaulay Way you find lifely streets of a normal size with a lot of people around. Here you can find a lot of restaurants, supermarkets and internetcafes.

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Directions: Area west of the Sheraton Hotel

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Things To Do: In the streets of Abuja

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Abuja, in the streets

We walked several times in the area just west of the Sheraton Hotel to visit the shops and restaurants. We enjoyed the lively streets in this part of Abuja.

Everyday we passed this place, where some men always gathered in the shade of the trees, just chatting with each other and looking at the daily life, passing by in the streets.

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Things To Do: Abuja, contrasts

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Abuja

Abuja, the new capital of Nigeria is a modern new-built city with huge buildings, new housing areas and wide boulevards.

But don't be surprised to see also rural scenes as herds with cows and goats between the traffic and concrete buildings.

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Directions: Abuja is 750 KM north-east of Lagos.

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Things To Do: Abuja, exhibition ''world press photo''

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Abuja, exhibition

In the lobby of the Abuja Sheraton Hotel & towers the Dutch embassy organised the exhibition of the "World Press Photo'' during our stay. It was a nice ambiance -with free admission- for this interesting exhibition.

Many of the touching pictures were taken at the African continent. Later during my Africa-trip I saw the same exhibition a second time in the National Museum of Addis Abeba.

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Directions: The Abuja Sheraton Hotel is just north of the Inner Northern expressway in Abuja.

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Things To Do: Villages, east of Abuja

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Traditional villages