My Short Trip to the Place of Fortune
Am a big fan of water but have never summoned the courage to enter a giant wooden something that floats on water before "boat" somehow because of its obvious disadvantages of course, but let's say my curiosity about this beautiful Island in Osolu Kingdom, Irewe village actually got the better of me and i let myself get talked into going somewhere where the only means of transportation is via water.
Irewe village is under Ojo Local Government in Lagos state. P.s You know i cant talk about Lagos state with one blog post so pardon me to take it in bits. Irewe means "The Place of Fortune" The
people of Irewe are Aworis of Yoruba
Nation and the main dialect is Awori. They have the same culture as
other Yoruba people
anywhere in the country.
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| Beautiful Scenery |
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| Favorite pictures of all time |
Irewe
people are mostly farmers and
fishermen, and the women are mat weavers and petty traders their main
agricultural products
are coconuts.
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| Irawe Village |
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There are very large
coconut plantations belonging to individual farmers on Osolu land, i swear everywhere you turn there is a coconut tree.lol
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| Coconut! Coconut and more coconuts |
Ok seriously have you ever seen people eating Eba (yellow color eba apparently prepared with dry pepper) and boiled crab water before? I did ooo and i took pictures too. They claimed its delicious but errrrr i think i ll pass, i did taste the crab tho, it tastes amazing like a better version of boiled fish.
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| Come and eat.......Nice men |
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| Some men using manual dredger to do some hard labour |
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These Island i heard is surrounded by almost four beautiful beaches, its an investor dream really, the first money "We" make is going into a beach house here...lol.kidding probably a better camera first.
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| awwwwwww |
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| The Kids |
I have a feeling am forgetting something. errrrrrrrrrr Oh yes am definitely spending my Easter break here, because i didn't get a chance to visit these exquisite beaches but i will then and if i feel nice i will upload the pictures. I also heard a rumour that the Oba "HRH King Abideen is building a fine a** hotel before then, so hopefully it would have been completed.
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| The only car i saw in the village, it belongs to the Oba |
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| The Palace. |
Special thanks to my host The King, The Princess and My Prince... Oh and that nice man that gave me crab to taste for the first time in my life and to the boat driver that took me to&fro without turning my wahala head inside the water. (despite his instruction not to move around so much in the boat for proper balance, had to take pictures nawww so i moved like 1million times)
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| Ajala the Traveler |
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| I call this place Nigeria Hawaii, It's beautiful, calm and there are beaches and coconuts.lol |
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