http://yorubaparapo.com/thread/295/scenic-town-idanre

Idanre is an ancient historic town located on a scenic hilly area. The town is located about 20 km southeast of Akure and is one of the major towns in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State in Southwest Nigeria. It falls within latitude 9o8’N and latitude 5o5’ of equator and Greenwich meridian respectively.
The headquarters of the local government area is located in the town of Owena.

The hilly town, which is one of the highest Cocoa producers in Nigeria, was formally called “Ufeke(Ife Oke)”. It is a few kilometers away from Akure, the capital of Ondo state and about 335 kilometres from Lagos. Idanre hill is one of the most awesome and beautiful natural landscapes in Ondo State and Nigeria. Added to its beauty which fires human curiosity is the fact that the entire people of Idanre lived on these boulders for almost a millennium.
Since emigration down hill in 1923, the topography, vegetation as well as the fauna and floral life have remained undistributed. However the festivals provides occasions for reconciliation of the low-landers and their natural environments as well as reenactments or .historical episodes in local Idanre history and its wider Yoruba ideology, mythology and confederacy.

There is the Ogun festival, which is partly celebrated on top of the hills during October and Ije festival, which spread over seven days.
Apart from the festivals, which make the site a living tradition, the flora and fauna of the hills are also unique. There is a special species of tailless animal called Hyrax that lives on the rocks which because of hunting are becoming extinct and there are special monkeys sported near Orosun hills. The town is enclosed by hills that rise up to 3,000ft above sea level, and houses a unique ecosystem upon which the cultural landscape is integrated. The hill is also plays host to a group of scientists and field researchers. The site is home to a group of bats and the people hold a unique festival of bats every year. The hill is being used by filmmakers as location for many of their films. In addition, the one and only Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in Africa Professor Wole Soyinka wrote his longest poem titled "Idanre and other Poems".

It has an area of 1,914 km² and a population of 129,024 at the 2006 census.

The Idanre Cultural landscape has been added to the UNESCO World heritage tentative list

justwise, Lalasticlala, DisGuy, Seun

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Anyone who hasn't visited the Idanre Hills before should try to visit, it is indeed a very beautiful place.

Awesome

I have been there before

WooooooW! These are beautiful pictures

Good

op or whoever, Idanre town is not in Akure.

The guy under that rock get mind

It should be well packaged for tourism, Nigerians and foreigners will troop there!

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Nice one, I planned to visit One day.

Good and lovely

Idanre, here I come...

Thanks for the enlightenment scholes0.

This is beautiful

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF HATRED WILL SOON FLOOD THIS TREND

Cool, But will that lady in purple still be there when I visit?? Just asking anyway.

Its Indeed a beautiful place. Nature at its best.

Lovely

I wonder why certain elements on nairaland are desperately trying to "buzzword" Akure like their lives are depending on it.

Imagine someone moving this thread to front page and adding "Akure" to the title.

and why did the op in particular open yet another thread for the same topic?

itstpia8:
op or whoever, Idanre town is not in Akure.

Where's it?

Beautiful! I would like to go there. I hope our tourism folks are adding this to a list of wonderful places in Naija.

OP thanks for sharing... I imagine being among those hills would be magical. With the right investments, that place can be a really big tourist attraction.

Nigerians will never wear proper kit for anything. ..see that one wearing Pam to a mountain hike....


me sef follow

Was there in December, not that nice again.

Idanre hills!!! Really magical those mountains in ondo state are amazing..Idanre hills, ijesha water fall, Osun grove, etc lovely places in this country..its a big shame our government is not paying attention to other things that can really generate massive income in this country. .everybody wants oyel money

itstpia8:
I wonder why certain elements on nairaland are desperately trying to "buzzword" Akure like their lives are depending on it.

Imagine someone moving this thread to front page and adding "Akure" to the title.

and why did the op in particular open yet another thread for the same topic?

It gives context for where it is... Like most people, I may know where Akure is, but not Idanre. If you say it's close to Akure, then I have an idea and might be interested in visiting next time I'm in the area. At least I know it's not too far off the Lagos-Benin express

Some people self, they are can never be polite for once! The girl in the third to the last picture, what was she thinking before putting on a blouse that has the inscription, " Thunder fire U."