THE DIARY GAME SEASON 3 / 16-MAY-2021/HOW I SPENT MY DAY AT LEKKI CONSERVATION CENTER LOGOS NIGERIA.

sammyrock (47)in SteemAlive • 4 years ago

Today experience was wonderful and something to remember about. Today i was able to introduce & register @Staislaus into the steamit world and the great outing at the conservation center Lekki Lagos Nigeria.

Today my enjoyable sleep was cut short by the crow of a chicken in my compound by 4:7am which I have an awkward rival relationship with. We actually don't like each other. I have to do my normal morning prayers, Follows shortly, is a call from my friend who I had an earlier arrangement to meet. At this moment, I realize that I have had the sleep of a lazy man, it is already 9am and I need to get to my friend because the distance seems pretty far and Lagos Nigeria is not a city you rely solely on distance, some other unforseen and unprecedented circumstances might as well cause you delay.

The initial place which we are supposed to meet is cut short when my friend calls me and requests I stop at a closer and famous junction(Chevron junction). Not very far from this junction is a recreational centre, which is called: LCC, that is the short form of Lekki Conservation Centre. Oh! I'm already having this feeling that today is going to be a gratifying day

On approaching the gate, we are instructed by the security man to book a "visiting ticket" online. "Why do I need to book online when I'm here already, in a physical form?" Well! I guess they just want to attract traffic to their site, it is a good thing, good for business
So we book tickets for three people, it is free, so no money is remitted,
Here is the screenshot of the the online ticket we booked.

With our face-masks on, the security grants us entry. This is where the unplanned journey begins.
My friends have not had anything to eat, but that's not my problem as I managed to "snuff" in one or two bites of the snacks I left in my fridge the previous day.

We approach the receptionist who gives us tickets for nature-walk and persuaded we buy tickets for canopy-walk concurrently as it would be disastrous if we came back for it. We are very skeptical people, so we decline.

The nature-walk is set as we walk on a wooden bridge which was built over a swamp, I'm quite sure this is a home for crocodiles and snakes, there are literally danger signs of them everywhere, but the monkeys jumping around the trees is a sight to behold. We have lived in Lagos for years and this is our first time here. We are seriously bent on seeing some crocodiles but seems like the danger signs are all we have to settle for.

We cover some kilometres on the wooden bridge, which I'm sure we burned some calories. We should have gone to the gym instead,
And we decide to rest for a while before can continue.

The suspension bridge is just by the left hand side, we are told by the security man there that our tickets don't cover a tour to the suspension bridge, we already knew, we just wanted to try our luck. This suspension bridge looks risky and stressful, it is the longest in Africa. My friends are not very adventurous people so we try to opt out but our curiosity gets the best of us.

We pay for the tickets, this is the canopy-walk the receptionist talked about, but she did not tell us that there is an option to buy in the instance, smart receptionist, very business minded.

Am going to fill your eyes with some beautiful pictures of my first experience at the Lekki conservation center Lagos Nigeria.