Bar Beach is one of the numerous beaches in Lagos and it’s the closest to
the city center of Victoria Island. If you would like to take a walk by the
ocean-side while enjoying the cool breeze, Bar Beach is the place to be. The beach
is sandy without any plants or coconut trees. Care should be taken though while
at this beach as the waves are extremely strong.
This
is the main beach on Victoria Island, alongside Ahmadu Bello Way and one of the
more popular beaches in the state. Bar Beach is the main (inner city) beach and
runs from the Institute of Oceanography in the west to the Eko Hotel in the
east. Being smack in the middle of the city, it attracts its fair share of
squatters, druggies, “ladies of the night” with their “customers”, and fervent
religious types, creating a heady blend of life forms, with the wealthiest
walking along the poorest and no one batting an eyelid. Bar Beach is named
after the sand bars that characterised the coastline of Lagos, not because of
the myriad of bars that run along the beach itself (a popular misconception!)
The Eko Hotel end of Bar Beach was recently
fenced off by the Lagos State government, to create a more “organised” beach
called Kuramo Beach, named after the small lake which lies behind it. A uniform
range of beach huts were rented/sold off to operators of bars and restaurants
and for a while, this beach was very inviting. Like all things in Lagos, Kuramo
was soon taken over by “the mob” and is now as rough and ready as the rest of
Bar Beach.
The
other beaches provide more of a “get away” from the city and include:
Lekki
Beach, Alpha Beach, Eleko Beach and Akodo Beach (to the East) and Tarkwa Bay,
Ogogoro Island, Atlas Cove, Lighthouse beach, Ilashe Beach, Agaja Beach and
Badagry beach (to the West).
Don't miss a thing!
Looks fantastic
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