Badagry Heritage Museum

Kalakuta Museum

Nigeria

Explore the Makoko community in Lagos, the world’s largest floating village which lives principally on stilt houses on water. Discover Lagos’s own Venice on this guided canoe ride through the watery fishing neighborhood, built on stilts overtop canals.

The area is home to at least 850,000 people, although some estimates indicate closer to 1,000,000 floating city dwellers. Our local tour guide will educate you about the history of the community and why they decided to settle on water. This trip gives you an opportunity to experience the day today lives of the people, how they cope with the raining season, their occupation and many more. 

 Makoko Floating Community Tour

Great ancestors have been taken away who later gave birth to children and grand children in far away unknown lands. This tour affords you the opportunity to know, first hand what really happened and how these things happened.

Many have traced their roots to Africa to see and write their own narratives. Why not you?

The Black Heritage - Badagry Tour

As we navigate across the borders to give you the best experience of Africa, this guided West Africa private tour will give you an all-inclusive overview of the cultures, history, food, music, dance and religion as you embark on these 5 days tour for a fun and stress-free vacation.

Parts of the many places to visit include Makoko floating village in Lagos (a community that lives on the water), Lekki Conservation Center which houses the longest canopy bridge in Africa and the Badagry slave center in Nigeria. In Benin, you will experience the Voodoo culture in Quidah, visit the Sacred Forest, Ouidah Museum of History and the Python Temple. In Togo, you will visit Togoville, the Agbodraconslave site and the Fetish market. In Ghana, you will explore Accra and take a trip to the Cape Coast Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

With this tour, your understanding about Africa will now be a first-hand knowledge. The tour can start in any of the West African countries of your choice.

5 Days West African Adventure (Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana)

Explore the vast historic collections at the National museum, walk through a range of Art works at the Nike Art Gallery and also take a walk in nature at the Lekki Conservation Center

Other tour options include exploring the Omu resort and exciting time at the beach fronts on the peninsula.

Lagos City Tours

The story of 400 years of slavery cannot be told without a visit to the former slave port. This is a private tour to explore the former slave quarters and see the preserved relics at the Slave Museums. This tour affords you the opportunity to experience first-hand what really happened and how these things happened during the slave trade regime. Many people known today as Black Americans have actually traced their roots to Africa to see and write their own narratives. 

Your tour will include a boat ride to the Point of No Return (Gberefu Island) where the slaves were routed through to the ships to foreign countries. During the tour, there will be a brief stop at the ‘Attenuation Well’ where slaves were made to drink magical waters that made them forget who they’re. There will also be a stopover at the beach front of the Point of No Return for a little rest and reflection. 


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