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Travel Blogs from Lagos
Togo to Benin to Nigeria!
... a transit visa to cross on 48hours, all good! It's a pity we had to leave so quickly so the only highlights were the fishing villages and the traffic going through Cotonou! It's the most insane experience, survival is key and work as a group... It was a proper white knuckle ride, thousands of mopeds muscling their way through the city. Red light? Don't worry one bike starting ro edge forward, then 2, then 5, then 15 hey ho let's all go! I've abandoned indicators ...
Hey, sistah
Lagos is the place to go if you would like to experience the luxury of an armed escort and the oddity of standing out as an obvious foreigner. Since I once attended a montessori school where my skin color was not in the majority, I was strangely at ease. It helped that one of my collegues was from Lagos and told the rest of us about the place from her own local ...
Lagos Day #2
... a crazy $150 a night here – Lagos has some of the most expensive hotel rates in the world).
My first problem of the day began after breakfast when I spoke with the front-desk attendant about arranging a taxi to the ABC Transport booking office in the Falomo Shopping Center. The map in my book indicates it’s only about two miles but the first taxi driver he called wanted 3,000 naira ($18.40). He called another driver and we bargained down to N 1,500 ($9.20).
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Flying IAH-LOS
... the United/Continental merger. I was pleased to see the new menus are branded "United BusinessFirst." The previous interim menus did not contain the cabin name, which was poor marketing for a merged airline with new cabin names. Legacy Continental maintained the “BusinessFirst” cabin name for its two-cabin long-haul international flights but legacy United changed its premium cabin names from “Business Class” to “BusinessFirst” and ...
Lagos
Wir fahren mit einem Minibus nach Lagos, mit mehr als 15 Mio. Einwohnern die groesste Stadt Afrikas. Und sie hat alles was man erwartet, Elendsquartiere, in denen die Menschen auf engstem Raum in Bruchbuden leben, eine beeindruckenden Skyline, von der man wegen des Smogs leider nicht viel sieht, ein Marina mit eleganten Booten, Restaurants, die wie Fort Knox ...