Idanre Hills

Ondo State · Nigeria

Idanre Hills, Nigeria
Photo: Onadeko, A. B., Rödel, M.-O., Liedtke, H. C., and Barej, M., CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
November to February, when trails are dry
Budget
$
Accessibility
not-accessible
Coordinates
Open in maps

A cluster of smooth granite domes rising above forest in southwestern Nigeria, reached by a stairway of roughly 680 steps. The plateau preserves an abandoned old town with a palace, shrines, and mysterious footprints embedded in the rock, and the site sits on UNESCO's tentative list.

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