GBEREFU ISLAND - POINT OF NO RETURN

If you have booked a tour, make sure it includes the crossing to Gberefu Island and a visit to the Point of no return. This includes a 5-minute boat trip from the lagoon to the last stretch of land before the ocean, called Gberefu Island. Once on the other side, a 15-minute walk along a sandy path takes the visitor back to the slaves' last moments on their homeland, before crossing to the Americas, the Caribbean or Europe, which many will not survive. A well halfway there is said to be bewitched, where slaves were made to drink and forgot all their memories, a symbolic ritual of the point of no return. At the end of the road is the beach, so peaceful with all its coconut palms that it is difficult to imagine the slave boats moored for the big start. A memorial, whose construction has been abandoned by the Lagos government, seems to freeze the place out of time.