The Lekki Conservation Centre—described on its website as “one of the few natural environment relics within the city”—must be, to use the cliché, one of Lagos’ best kept secrets. Most Lagosians have no idea that it exists, let alone visit, though it’s been in existence for some 25 years. That’s because they see Lagos as a completely built-up environment with no natural environment to spare.

But as soon as you step in, the noise is completely lost and you are fully in nature’s comforting embrace. This is quite incredible, considering that it’s just 16 km (10 mi) from the heart of a city renowned for its metropolitan grandeur and excessive population.

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