I’m writing on my travel experience to Lagos, Nigeria; Nigeria’s foremost music, culture and entertainment hotspot, a fast rising tech hub and incubation city— slowly taking over from Silicon Valley and an all round fascinating city with enormous sights to behold, especially if you’re an adventurous person open to new experiences. Firstly, while in Lagos, we, as a group of six persons , planned on visiting three top places in Lagos, so, we navigated our way to the famed Nike Art Gallery, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos. On getting there, the scenery was eccentric as nothing I’ve experienced before, in the front of the building, there were traditional dancers and performers who were invited to showcase their talents and rich cultural heritage there; they were all sitted, waiting to be called upon meanwhile, there was a palm wine stand with kegs of palmwine for sale to curious tourists. And then we had to wait outside as there was an orientation exercise going on inside; white tourists from outside the continent of Africa, perhaps they were Chinese, were being enlightened on the works of art present in the Gallery, and their cultural significance. Shortly, after awhile, we were led into the five-storey building landmark Art Gallery housing a collection of about eight thousand impeccable Art pieces created by a wide range of artists from Nigeria and across Africa, there were precolonial works of art, as well as metal works made by the Igbo ukwu people, from the Southeastern part of Nigeria . I was lost in thoughts for a couple of minutes due to the number of significant works of art— depicting our journey as a country; the struggles, difficulties, challenges facing us as a nation, as well as our victories and triumph over the years in the face of countless oppositions. I couldn’t help, but stare intently at as much pieces, as I could. It was stock filled with culture defining works of art; both contemporary and traditional. Furthermore, I got to meet with the founder and curator of the gallery— Mrs Nike Davies Okundaye; the world renowned artist and designer, who decided to revamp art and culture in Nigeria by building art centers across the country. She was dressed in her signature adire attire( a traditional clothing, made from tie and dye) , adorned with beads and her traditional head tie known as “Gele” she talked on the importance of our culture and how interested the westerners are about our culture, so when they visit here, they want to eat our local food, and drink our local drinks. The next location we visited, was the Lekki Conservation Centre; which is undoubtedly one of the most profound tourist sites in Africa , it’s a nature reserve with rich savanna all around, huge trees (on which they were a lot of Mona monkeys hopping freely) and a swampy groove; there are walkways above the swamp so, tourists can get to the other end. The conservation Centre houses the longest canopy walkway in Africa and second in the world; it’s a suspended seven lanes walkway, it gets higher after after every lane with a resting spot available, after a lane, but after the fifth lane it goes lower and lower,whilst walking down the lane, I had a panoramic view of the Impressive Conservation Centre sheltering several species of animals, reptiles, amphibians and the likes. I successfully completed the 401 metre long walkway, alongside my tourist group , and was proud of myself, after having lots of laugh all along, it was a totally mind boggling, exhilarating and invigorating experience, I very much look forward to having more of that type of experiences. There’s also a treehouse at the Conservation Centre; a wooden building, containing a wooden stairs to climb up and down the building, I took the stairs up the tree house to get a view for my self— it wasn’t easy climbing at all, I can tell, but it was worth it as I literally had a bird’s eye view of the Conservation Centre from the tree house and it was definitely an exquisite view indeed.. Lastly, we visited a beach — Lekki Leisure Lake; an idyllic relaxation spot in Lagos to consummate our experiences of the day.