I have
seen so beautiful things today, it is almost too much to describe.
To
start, we are staying in Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel. I have never seen such
an amazing hotel, so much luxury. The hotel has three restaurants, an indoor
and an outdoor pool. I have never experienced anything like this before.
We have
spent our first day on the beach, on Eleko Beach. This way we could relax from
the exhausting trip. I found it almost unbelievable how clean the beach was,
contrary to the beaches in Belgium…
As
boring as this may sound to some of you, we have never been so relaxed.
The second
day, we had our first meeting with a local company, but I am going to spare you
the boring details. The most amusing part of the day was when we went to
the Port of Lagos. Lagos is a city with
a big port and I really loved looking at the ships. I hoped there would have
been smaller ships, but in fact it was more like the port of Antwerp. So I can
say it was not as picturesque as I hoped it would be, but I was surprised that
Nigeria has such a big port.
When we
were walking along the quay, a cargo ship docked at the quay and the captain
told us the story of the explosion in January 2013. We saw that a part of the
docks was damaged, but we did not really think about it.
Many
tankers in the docks are used to stock petroleum and the explosion happened during
the transfer of fuel. He told us that the explosion was huge and followed by
some others. He believed also that about four people got killed in the
explosion.
As a
conclusion I can say that the industrial transport is much like Belgium’s but
people often don’t know that. I have to admit that I did not know either that
Nigeria imports and exports so much petroleum.
Today is
our third and final day in Nigeria and my suitcase is packed, ready to go to
Niger.
I am
ready for a new adventure!
Sources:
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Africa/Nigeria/Lagos-2170732/Things_To_Do-Lagos-TG-C-1.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20960214
The hotel was indeed astonishing. I couldn’t believe how beautiful and large it was. That is how a holiday should be: beach, sun and a wonderful hotel. It was a very good idea to go to the beach the first day because I was very tired. It was very long day because the trip took approximately ten hours. We had to change to another plane in Paris and from there it was still another seven hours...
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Sources:
http://www.airfrance.be/cgi-bin/AF/BE/en/common/home/flights/ticket-plane.do