Catching up.

So, it has been even longer since an update... I swear i will get better at this.

It is now our second week here in Benin, and we are having a great time, as usual. We finally left Cameroon around the 12th of April with only one week left on out Nigerian visas, which we had gotten when we intended to cross in the north in early March. With only a week to get through Nigeria we crossed from Cameroon near Ikom in the south of Nigeria, and spent Easter in Calibar.

We meet a host from couchsurfing who took us to his house in Aba. To get there we had to cross the Niger Delta area, which is sketchy to say the absolute least. Funny, the state department tells us not to go there... The city of Aba is just up the road from the infamous Port Harcort, and as such had a very rough lawless sort of feeling. Thankfully we had a very trustworthy host who took really good care of us and showed us some quality Nigerian hospitality. We had planned to couchsurf in Lagos as well, but had not been able to get online and get the host's number because ever thing was closed for the Easter week.

The following day we got up bright and early to catch the first bus to Lagos, so that we could get into a hotel before it got dark. After a long bus ride on the nicest roads we have yet encountered in Africa, we arrived in the center of Lagos at our hotel with the help of a local who was on our bus. The place, called 'Ritz Hotel', was the cheapest place in the book. So cheep in fact that we could have stayed there by the hour... The dirty worn out feeling of the hotel did not get in the way of us strolling around the city, which had a surprisingly safe feel, and getting our visas for Benin. On the second day in Lagos we get in contact with our host there, and spent the remaining day and a half with him.