NIGERIA: Lagos: Lagos Lagoon

If you're in Lagos for the first time... you would notice a huge body of water while crossing from Lagos Mainland to Lagos Island, vice versa. It's so huge that it must be one of the largest lake in West Africa, right? Wrong...

That is, my friend the Lagos Lagoon. Yes, a lagoon. More specifically, an inland lagoon. It's very much inland that I thought it was a lake with murky water. Even the Portuguese who came ashore in the 1400s got it all wrong. They named the place Lagos, built some trading post along the shore of the "new" found place and the name stuck! The original name, Èkó still in use too, by the Yoruba. After all, we are in Yoruba land. 

 Map of Lagos state and the huge inland lagoon, Lagos Lagoon

Hello Lagos: Now What?

Madam has her routine which I can say she was craving about it the moment we landed in Lagos (Lay-Goes). Easy for her as we were conned to be here due to her new post here in Nigeria. I think on the second day we arrived, she was already working full swing. Easy. Like duck to water...

For the rest of us stuck in the hotel room...not so much. Stuck in the room which is smaller than Romney Court made the children restless. Stuck in a room smaller the Romney Court with huge luggage and an additional bed took lots of patience. We needed a routine, we got one and it can be simplified as thus: Eat-Play-Sleep

Madam would rose early in the morning, and have breakfast at the coffee house (met another Malaysian, whom arrived a few days later than us). I would wait for the children to wake up first rather than going by myself or with Madam for fear that they would become panic and even hysterical if found I am not in the room.

Hello Lagos: Harmattan

Selamat Pagi, Lagos! Good Morning, Lagos! E karo!

First I did was, to go out to the balcony and take the first picture of Lagos. This was the result of the picture taken. No filter was actually added. The slight red tint was not due to the sun, but it was actually due to a phenomenal called  Harmattan

View from the hotel balcony