Tuesday 16 January 2018

Facts About Ado-awaye, A Tourist Site In Nigeria.

THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE. A TOURIST SITE IN NIGERIA.

20 kilometers west of Iseyin, Oyo state is this awesome community called Ado-awaye. This community was formed by two separate community who lived together. The community is blessed with with a mountain called Ado-awaye mountain and you get awesome view at the top of this mountain.

There are about 350 steps after which you continue with your hands as a guild before you get to the top. From history it is made known that there are 16 gods on the mountain, but today there are no where to be find. it's advisable to eat and put on something that makes your body free when climbing the mountain, also go with a bottle of water to quiche your taste at the top.



The mountain is greatly blessed and it serve as a prayer ground for it's people and who so ever believe in it. This mountain has the second suspended lake in the word after the one in Colorado, USA. The lake is called IYAKE LAKE, depth of the lake unknown as anyone that goes in never comes out. The people of Ado-awaye believe so strongly in the lake that all you asked for there are always answered.

Apart from the lake we also have some other fascinating artifacts on the mountain such as the ISHAGE ROCK. This is the first thing you see when you get to the top of the mountain, it's a rock standing upright without anything supporting it. This rock is also a powerful god that grant wishes of those who pray at it's foot. It's is said that after the prayer has been answered the person is going to bring a white clothes and wrap it over the rock and when the rock does not need it again the clothes falls down. The people of the town also said when ever the rock appear to any of then abroad that means the rock needs a white clothes from that person. The person calls home and they get the clothes to wrap the rock round.



Another lovely artifacts you won't want to miss is the ELEPHANT TREE. A tree that looks much like an elephant. Other things include ESÈ ÀWON ÀGBÁ (Foot print of the elders), ÌYÁ-ÁLÂRÓ LAKE, ESÈ KAN AIYÉ ESÈ KAN ÒRUN and so many more.


Visiting this place won't a waste of time as you will have an unforgettable experience.

COMPOSED BY MAKANJUOLA IBRAHIM

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