09 Sep Calabar’s Top 6 Attractive Tourist Centers

Calabar, the capital of Cross River State, is very popular for its annual 31 days of cultural extravaganza particularly, the very colourful carnival street parade. Beyond these, December fiesta are other sites in the ancient town that are must-sees for all visitors to the one time slave route. Nigeria is gradually making its way into the tourism calendar of the world. With a few of its annual festivals like the Argungu Fishing Festival, Abuja Carnival and a few others being major attractions of tourists from all over.

Calabar, especially since the late 90s, has warmed its way into the hearts of many, at home and abroad with her many cultural sights and delights which have been described as ‘real eye candies’. Until the 1904, Calabar was popularly known as Old Calabar to distinguish it from New Calabar, which is usually used to identify a port and river. A visit to the town is not complete except you have spent time at the:

1#Tinapa Resort

2#Drill Monkey Ranch

3#Calabar Museum,

4#Duke Town,

5#Calabar Cemetery and

6#The Kwa Falls amongst others which i’d independently provide you with short detailed info about them in subsequent post 🙂

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