iceblue:

the smell of rotting garbage hits your nostrils, forcing u to double over, hide under the car seat, stuff your nose with tissue, stick your head in a bag, ANYTHING to escape the smell, all the while people are walking past/driving past as normal.

frankly anytime i travel by road, i know i'm back in lagos just by the smell. even when i'm asleep. minus the garbage dump, lagos has an offensive smell, once your nose breathes clean air somewhere else.

similar phrase was used in a BBC documentary sometime ago to describe lagos; "the stinking city of lagos".

When that heat hits your face once u step out of baggage claim
there are touts or tout-looking people evrywhere
people are staring at you like u're a different colour
and everyone other than those you step out of the plane with seem darker than usual
random people are cursing each other
something like:
madam, respect yourself oo ,
and madam goes: abeg go and sit down, do u know who i am?
am still trying to get through immigration and blurt out welcum to Nigeria
and fellow travellers double up in laughter?

Tout looking people lmao its called 'strong face', you need to put one on when you neter lagos!

And the car horn