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NIGERIA · Tourism
The Loudest Country on the Continent
One in five Africans is Nigerian. Afrobeats, Nollywood, the Benin bronzes, Yankari's elephants and the Obudu plateau — a country that exports its culture faster than anywhere else on earth.
West AfricaRegion
27Tourism experiences
The loudest country on the continentKnown for
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Featured destinations
Where the country actually takes you.
Nature & Landscapes
The Obudu Plateau
Sixteen hundred metres of grassland on the Cameroon border, with cattle ranches and cloud.
Photo Prince Rufus / Pexels
Erin-Ijesha and Gurara
Erin-Ijesha's seven stages in Osun, and the Gurara falls on the road to Abuja.
Photo Og / Pexels
Lakes & RiversThe Niger and the Benue
Two great rivers meeting at Lokoja, and the delta they build a thousand kilometres downstream.
Photo Oladapo / Pexels
Lagos and the Atlantic
Tarkwa Bay, Elegushi and the long Atlantic beaches east towards Lekki.
Photo Tosin James / Pexels
Cross River
The Cross River forest holds the last of Nigeria's gorillas and some of West Africa's tallest trees.
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Wildlife & safari
What lives here, and how you see it without disturbing it.
Wildlife
Yankari and Gashaka
Yankari's elephant herds, and Gashaka-Gumti's forest chimpanzees on the Cameroon border.
Photo Sara Sukosd / Pexels
SafariYankari
The country's best game reserve, with a warm spring you can swim in at the centre of it.
Community Forest
Afi Mountain's drill ranch and the Cross River community forests, both village-run.
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Culture & heritage
The part of a country you cannot photograph from a vehicle.
Culture
Five Hundred Languages
Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and around five hundred more, in one country.
Photo Anchau / Pexels
Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani
Four large cultures and hundreds of smaller ones, each with its own courts and calendars.
Photo bobest Imagery / Pexels
Jollof, Suya and Egusi
Suya off the grill at night, egusi with pounded yam, and the jollof question again.
Photo Canary Vista ES / Pexels
Festivals & CelebrationsOsun-Osogbo and Calabar
The Osun-Osogbo grove festival in August, and the Calabar carnival through December.
Photo Ben Iwara / Pexels
Traditional Arts & CraftsBronze, Adire and Aso Oke
Benin bronze casting still practised in Igun street, and adire resist-dyed cloth in Abeokuta.
Photo David Iloba / Pexels
Historic SitesBenin City and Sungbo's Eredo
The walls of Benin, and Sungbo's Eredo — a hundred and sixty kilometres of earthworks.
Photo David Iloba / Pexels
HeritageThe Bronzes
The Benin bronzes are the reason half the museums of Europe have a Nigeria problem.
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Cities & everyday life
Where people actually live between the landmarks.
CitiesLagos, Abuja, Kano
Lagos on the lagoon, purpose-built Abuja in the middle, and Kano's thousand-year-old walls.
Photo alameen .ng / Pexels
Mud Mosques and Modernism
Hausa mud architecture in the north, and the 1970s modernism of Lagos and Abuja.
Photo Gpop NL / Pexels
Local LifeDanfo and Buka
The yellow buses, the roadside buka, and a city that does not stop at any hour.
Photo David Iloba / Pexels
Loud, and Welcoming
Not a quiet holiday — but there is nowhere friendlier once you are through the door.
Photo Ademola Adeola / Pexels
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Adventure & outdoors
For travellers who would rather walk it than watch it.
Adventure
Plateau and Delta
Hiking the Jos plateau, the Obudu cable car, and creek trips through the delta.
Photo Jagaba Denis / Pexels
Hike, Paddle, Ride
The Jos plateau, the Obudu ranch trails, and creek boats through the delta.
Photo Zedou Njankouo / Pexels
Lagos Island Hotels
Victoria Island and Ikoyi at one end, and Obudu's mountain resort at the other.
Photo David Iloba / Pexels
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Travel inspiration
The frames people come home with.
Colour and Crowd
Markets, festivals and cloth — the hardest thing here is choosing what to leave out.
Photo DETTY IMAGES / Pexels
Idanre
The Idanre hills, with an old town six hundred steps up and nobody else climbing them.
Photo Hiếu Lê / Pexels
Why Visit This Country
The Culture Everyone Else Is Watching
Afrobeats and Nollywood came from here, and it is worth seeing where.
The Culture Everyone Else Is Watching
Afrobeats and Nollywood came from here, and it is worth seeing where.
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