So, on the 1st of January this year, I decided to visit the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove. This historic and religious site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Osogbo, the Osun state capital.


Visiting the grove from within or outside the state is not a herculean task due to its location which can easily be accessed directly from the city centre.

From Olaiya flyover bridge (the city centre) or wherever you are within Osogbo, you won’t have a hard time getting a commercial motorcycle popularly known as Okada to commute you to the grove which is located at Isale-Osun, very close to the palace of the city’s traditional ruler, the Ata-Oja of Osogbo.

Osun-Osogbo Grove boasts of a rainforest vegetation that covers an area of 75 hectares surrounding it. It is on a raised percel about 350 metres above sea level. This is a breathtaking organically enveloped cultural landscape.

Entrance fee to the grove is 200 Naira. However, you’ll have to pay an extra (negotiable) fee if you are going in with your mobile phone or any other device for the purpose of taking pictures. I.e 1,000 Naira for smart phones and 3,000 Naira for digital cameras. These prices are negotiable.

After paying the required fees, (at your request), a tour guide will take you round the grove and explain the religious and historical meaning and relevance of all aspects of the grove. Though it is not mandatory to pay the tour guides but, most tourists show appreciation to them (tour guides) in monetary terms.

At the shrine inside the grove, you’ll find the Osun worshipers who have made it a tradition of demanding money from visitors before allowing them to enter the shrine-whether for sight-seeing or religious supplications. Don’t be surprised if they reject your 200 Naira and insist you drop at least a thousand Naira inside their offering box.

The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is not just a place for adventure for tourists but also for research and religious worship; especially the devotees of Osun, the river goddess.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwbVQlJAeLg

One of the most fascinating moments for most tourists at the grove whenever they visit is the fun-moment with the over a thousand monkeys that live inside the forest. Visitors have made it a tradition of giving bananas to the monkeys; hence the monkeys there are always excited and expectant when they see tourists around.

Nice

OP what did you really go there for this New Year?

Our culture and pride... Nice one las las bro

Nice

See peaceful environment unlike the east

Adeleke has a lot of work to improve here

Proud omo osun....


I need to find time to visit this place.. but Lagos hustling no give person time

Ba

Wow nice place and great art work

When he starts experiencing demonic oppression, he will start looking for pastors to stress for deliverance.

Tinobu is a wicked man

He will rule us

Wicked man

May the supreme being guide our legs and order our movement from where one's glory would be taken away in the beginning of the year...

Going to such place early in a year can be dangerous

VeryWickedSimp:
OP what did you really go there for this New Year?

Op go baff soap

You did not show us the polluted water from the devilish gold mining that's been going on!

The Oṣun river is crying!

Did you see the water goddess live or its just hearsays and superstitions

Op hope u no go there 4 skullaship?

Ken4Christ:
When he experiencing demonic oppression, he will start looking for pastors to stress for deliverance.

Pu$$¥

premierlead:
May the supreme being guide our legs and order our movement from where one's glory would be taken away in the beginning of the year...

Going to such place early in a year can be dangerous

Dumbă$$

Seen.

VeryWickedSimp:
OP what did you really go there for this New Year?

OP go prepare proper for 2023...

Ken4Christ:
When he experiencing demonic oppression, he will start looking for pastors to stress for deliverance.

I just dey shake my head (for you) on behalf of your ancestors...

Chai..

Nairalanders doing greater things.

premierlead:
May the supreme being guide our legs and order our movement from where one's glory would be taken away in the beginning of the year...

Going to such place early in a year can be dangerous

Not having a working brain is dangerous

triple996:
See peaceful environment unlike the east

lmao. Nothing is peaceful in the Yoruba land. Op was lucky his skull wasn’t mined