Calabar
Do you want to visit a place that could rival the world’s most beautiful cities in Nigeria? Then you have to follow this guide as you tour the beautiful city of Calabar and other parts of Cross River State. If you want a place with a lot of opportunities after your compulsory one-year national youth service, then this is a place to be. The only route by air in Cross River is by the Margaret Ekpo International Airport. From the airport you could access the 17 Local Government Areas of the state. There is surely enough ground to cover here.
One interesting thing about the state is that it is renowned for hosting visitors from different parts of the world. The Calabar Carnival Festival is one of the biggest and richest carnivals in this part of the world. This event takes place in December of every year with 30 days event-filled programs. There you would have the opportunity to see your favorite gospel and hip-hop acts on same stage. At this event, you would see Cross-Rivers beautiful ladies on display. The beautiful colors and paintings would cure color blindness and other vision impairments.
A wonderful site of attraction is the Obudu Mountain Resort. It is located on a plateau of about 1,576 meters above sea level at Obanliku Local Government Area. Obudu mountain resort has a scenic ambience, lush vegetation, temperate climate and it offers a clean, green, quiet and safe getaway. African leaders have visited this place making it a place of national pride. It is indeed a rendezvous to the world nature’s holidaying spot. Here, you would enjoy the several benefits of mountainous area.
Tinapa Business Resort in Calabar is also a place to visit. It is a business leisure resort conceptualized to be an integrated resort. Tinapa has let-table space for retail and wholesale, several line shops, warehouses etc. Recreational facility such as Tinapa Waterpark is an invitation to experience unequalled family fun at Tinapa Resort. Other resort facilities here include; a movie production studio (Studio Tinapa/Nollywood), an artificial tidal lake that feeds from the Calabar river, a two hundred and forty three (243) three star hotel rooms, and parking spaces and so on. If you are a business man/woman, I bring to you Tinapa Resort with a lot of opportunities.
Close to the Nigeria-Cameroon border is the Agbokim Waterfalls. It is located 17 kilometers from Ikom and 315 kilometers from Calabar. The fall consists of seven streams, each cascading over steep cliff which provides seven-faced falls. This is a nature’s beauty at its peak. Won’t you visit Cross River in your next vacation? The state is a model for nature’s beauty. Enjoy your visit guys.