olatommy7:
This is my home town, my dad happens to be a palace chief!!
Enjoy your stay please!!

I did, thanks.

charlie42:
After reading this post I feel like visiting this unique location.

You should.

ttmax09:
Good job op i just visited ur blog and i must say am interested in that igbo olodumare. Do you organize any group tour to that forest. secondly there is this story of 7 great hunters that my hostel patron do tell us back then in boarding school. I remembered when i came across the name akogun and oluhunoyin on ur blog. Pls what's the name of that book and was it also written by pa fagunwa. Pardon any error in my Yoruba words. Cheers

I gave little details about the hunters on my blog. Akara ogun and all.

The book, "ogboju ode ninu igbo olodumare" and yes it was also written by Pa.Fagunwa.

1stNumeroUno:
I was at this hill sometime in 2012.

Nice place, great history, poor management. I wish our government can improve it to UNESCO standard.

I wish they can. It's very possible.

TheCOOLEST:
Erm, pls how can 1 plan to visit the place? I wan2 visit the place with my friends(a student of FUTA)
Is it that we can go just any day we wish to or some1 has to go and make findings 1st b4 all of us go
And like how much would b the cost of visiting the place?

The place is open everyday. They have tour guides to accompany you guys. Calculate your cost from Akure to idanre to and fro, then plus the entrace fee of 1k each and your feeding if necessary.

kenny714433:



Seems u so my love adventure. I'll like to go with you on your next trip.

Okay

Powerexpert:
I visited in 2004. I could remember there is a hut where it is written, you must off your clothes before stepping inside else be cursed. Did you get to see that?

Yes but didn't enter.

Horlahmah:
Did you see that sacred point. Where people should not wear clothes to enter it.

Did you see Noah's Ark.

Did you see the feett hole that fit into everyone that put is feet.

I was told it's there. Hope to visit the place one day.

You should.

Ayodejibabs:
I've been here sometime ago. that place is dope and love those stories. Hope you could climb all those steps

Yes I was

mozes01:
You should visit Erin Ijesha waterfall too, it has an interesting stories behind it ..

PS: if u decide to go, you can DM me I'll gladly travel down to be your tour guide

Been there thrice. I have a story about it here. Check old threads.

Okeyc230:
Good trip. What was the tempetsture out there?

I hiked around 12pm.

Should be pretty much around 25 degree C.

xreal:
Bbsharon


is that a trouser or a short; or is it convertible?

When next you want to embark on such adventure, I can accompany.

It's a trouser. I converted it to short for flexibility.

Okay.

Jesusbabyboy:
pls dear pertaining to idanre hill.....pls I will like to ask you two questions... 1..how many days could someone spend on the hill....2..is praying acceptable there?

As a tourist it is advisable not to stay over on the mountain. About praying, you should be able to, as long as you made a good deal and agreement with your tour guide and not too long a prayer or so.

googi:
I think I saw some ancient writings on the walls. Has anyone been able to translate the writing?

No

walesklash:
Will love to go with you on your next tour. Can you give me a week notice when next?

Okay

Rogosa:


Do you know I have been going to this city for a long time and I have not being to Oke Idanre. I was told one goddess or something is living on the mountain and I don't want to have anything to do with this local voodoo in other not to alter one's destiny

And who told you they are no goddess around you down the mountain too? Climbing the mountain is just for fun and to learn about the culture and history of the people.

joshuaidibia:
There's no way she made that climb with those shoes she's putting on. I'm a geologist, we do that shit in exploring for a living.

Oshey!! Geologist.

How exactly is it not possible

So I got on the mountain on wings

Some of the villagers climb on barefoot or normal slippers.

temmypotter:
Nice! visited a while back as a kid, almost 10years now! remember the experience like yesterday.

Oh how exasperated we were after we climbed the 660 steps that led up to the top of the hill.

Some sightings I'm not quite sure you mentioned

So there was this big scribbling like a giant's handwriting on the surface of one of the big rocks atop the hill, apparently it was called the handwriting of God which was conveniently believable to the villagers I guess, seeing as no one could have possibly maneuvered up that stone to scribble nothing, and with such big letterings too

A hut/house where no one goes with their faces to the front, so we had to go in rear wise. going in with your face to the front is considered a taboo

A vegetation, like a small patch of weed or grass said to have remained exactly the same since forever, said to be mystical.

The shrine though! it was both scary and interesting. The sculptures of their deities, especially the ones with disproportioned abnormal body parts, male sculpts with ridiculously huge organs and the female sculpts with oversized mammary glands. lol

Nice adventure

omoteacher:



Nice narrative, you really nailed it and made it enticing for potential tourists.

Thank you

Michael004:
Did you get to where unreadable handwriting is. Did you meet a man living on the hill. Do they show you where they bury kings then. Do they show you where original oduduwa crown is. So many places to visit on idanre hill.

Yes, saw the old graveyards. So many...

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Okay

mechanics:
nice one, the pictures are clear and beautiful.

Thanks

Picienza:


When is the next one? I don't want to visit any fetish site though. On a second thought, I hope the agbalumo that you ate is not what they gave you to use in luring several of us to come o. Cos me as I'm like this so ehn, I'm already suspecting you.

Funny!!

korede2016:
Good one girl.. I have bath inside the arun river and even swim under water through a small mountain inside the river to burst out in the other side.. You should try to get to the place where the hand writing of a hen on the mountain too.. I happens to know these because I have son of the soil as friends there and I do go there for business. Don't forget the ark of Noah and the invisible leg that expand... Good luck in your tour.

Nice adventure there

Ebooksman2019:
I will like to go on your next tour.
pls chat me up
09025982805

Okay

DemigodZeus147:



Please, what would be the total cost for one staying in Lagos and intends to join the next tour?

I will send you a pm

Sicozone:
Great trip and picstories.

We could plan a NL trip to places like this. Give us heads up when next you plan to move.

Thank you, okay.

spirul77:
I'm more interested on where you changed your pants to shorts

I didn't change it. I just converted it. If I wanted to do that still, they are places around to do it.

5thElement:
Nice. If you wan enter any cave this time around abeg call me first OK? Make I bring my camping gear come join you for this wonderful excursion.

Okay

IvarTheBoneless:
I remember climbing the rocks here....

Or was it Olumo Rock ?

That feeling of tightness in the chest.... giddiness of low oxygen supply.

You look down and your eyes swim, wondering what sound your head will make crashing on those jagged rocks below

But of course, the mountain climbing only happened in my mind

Hahahhaha...no wonder

Rhea:


Hot legs everywhere

naturefellow:


I remember this stone. Quite weighty. But I carried it!

Nice blog. Gorgeous blogger :-)

Thanks