Travel Photos: Souvenirs From My Journey To God's Own State

Travel Photos: Souvenirs From My Journey To God's Own State

I traveled to the eastern part of Nigeria from Lagos recently. I went for a burial of one of my uncles. God recalled him when he went to answer natures call in the fateful morning. The burial went absolutely smoothly.
As a traveler I took a few travel pictures. I would've taken more exotic travel pictures if only my camera didn't go out of commission, so sad.

Travel Photos: Souvenirs From My Journey To God's Own State - Usekwu

The photo above is that of a modest USEKWU. Usekwu is an igbo word for kitchen. There's another modern kitchen indoors. A pot of white rice is on fire, it's almost done. You can see ITE (pot) sits on three legged EKWU or tripod stand for cooking. The fuel is firewoods. The firewood is dried OKA shrub and OWARA. I don't know what "oka" is in english, the english word for "owara" is jute palm fronds. The jute palm fronds is usually used to erect yam barn

Travel Photos: Souvenirs From My Journey To God's Own State - Ihu Ezi

 This our IHU EZI. That is compound. A coconut sits in a small roundabout in the middle. That coconut don't taste good to me but I eat it anyway lol. Beyond the red gate is a fairly large farm land but it wasnt cultivated this year. You can see the plantains, banana plants, etc.

Travel Photos: Souvenirs From My Journey To God's Own State - Usekwu with no fire

This is that usekwu where a pot of rice was on fire. Its early morning, no fire yet. It doesn't usually see fire everyday.

Travel Photos: Souvenirs From My Journey To God's Own State - Maize storage

 Maize storage. Maize hung over the cooking area, the heat from the cooking helps dry the and preserve the maize.

Travel Photos: Souvenirs From My Journey To God's Own State - Pot of bush meat

 A pot of ANU OHIA (bush meat). In this case the bush meat is NCHI (grasscutter). Its a delicacy.

Travel Photos: Souvenirs From My Journey To God's Own State - Isi Nchi

 This is the head of the ANU NCHI. This was a fully matured grasscutter. You have no idea how delicious this tastes lol.

Travel Photos: Souvenirs From My Journey To God's Own State - Youth Day

 This is Mazi Alozie and Nwada Chinwe presenting a mock news during Methodist Church's Youth Day at Trinity Methodist Church Umuegwu. It was a hilarious comic relief. Mazi Alozie is talented at doing this. He cracked everybody up lol!

Travel Photos: Souvenirs From My Journey To God's Own State - Abacha

 Now here's another delicacy. I love this dish. It's called ABACHA or popularly known as AFRICAN SALAD. The ingredients include abacha (cassava flaked a bit like pasta), potash salt, oil, garden egg, garden egg leaves, assorted fish, prawn, etc as you want to add.

Travel Photos: Souvenirs From My Journey To God's Own State - Okpa

This is called OKPA prepared from OKPA seed. I don't english word okpa sorry. But this is a delicacy. This particular one is wrapped with plantain or banana leaves which is the traditional and healthiest method. The plantain/banana makes it leaves gives it extra nice taste or flavour. It can be prepared using nylon bags too. Okpa is heavy and very filling healthy energy food.

Travel Photos: Souvenirs From My Journey To God's Own State - Coming back from the stream

 This photo is one of my oldest exotic travel photo lol. I didn't take this phot on my recent travel. The people in the photo were coming back from the stream called OTI. The have no idea they are on my blog. I have no idea who they are. There a guy who went to fetch firewood in the photo too.

Travel Photos: Souvenirs From My Journey To God's Own State

The road behind was constructed recently. It used to be very muddy during rainy season and very nastily dusty during dry/harmattan season. Everybody is happy this road was finally constructed courtesy of NDDC.


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