Calabar
Travel Blogs from Calabar, Nigeria
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Nigeria is Nuts!
... is not for sale!', (code 419 is the criminal code for a scam for selling anothers property). Obviously Nigerians are scamming Nigerians! Nigeria is nuts! We were warned that Nigeria was dangerous, and yet we decided that it wasn't so dangerous, it is ...
Calabar
... entree que l on ne donne pas normalenent mais la discussion est bien passÉ avec le vice-consul. Attraction majeur de calabar c est le centre de rehabilitation des mandrills. Un singe connu pour ses couleurs et son masque et qui a quasiment ...
Day 88 90 - Nigeria, Calabar - Car Crash
... with pot holes it made little to no difference to our speed which was slightly disconcerting, especially with still 300km to Calabar. I spent the morning sitting in Josh n Rach's seat reading whilst Oliver chatted away to Kelvin. We ...
Day 91 92 - Nigeria, Drill Ranch - Playful Apes
... on the side of the road and take the time to collect firewood. A few inquisitive locals pull over "Welcome to Nigeria. You are welcome". End up reaching the Drill Ranch gate around 5pm. Unfortunately it's blocked by a ...
Day 87 - Nigeria, Somewhere - School Camp
... . Should drink more as continuously sweating but just can't be bothered. Realising we weren't going to make it to Calabar we chose to go back roads which started off good but soon turned into pot hole riddled dirt tracks. With ...
Was It All That Bad?
... the value of all Western aid to all of Africa in the last forty year. Re-read it - there are no typos. Nigeria faces a very testing few months, with Presidential and Congressional elections due to be held in April. Will the recent trend of ...
Calabar, Nigeria, December 19 - 21, 2007
... located on hills beside the river and is a world of difference compared to the rest of what we saw in southern Nigeria. Calabar is quite clean, well organized, and rather prosperous, in contrast to many of the other areas we passed through. ...
Obot Idim to Calabar!!
... . He was an older man, Rev. Dr. Nelson Unwene. He told me that he is the one who followed Dad at Redeemer in Calabar! Interesting. (He is also a former President of LCN.) So this was one more person who still remembers Dad and his work. We then set off ...
More from Calabar
... more links than you would expect. For example, I didn't know that it was British missionaries who introduced Christianity to Nigeria. Seeing as this (religion) is probably the main difference between the two nations, it is ironic. Congrats to everyone ...
London plans
London plans Dear loved of London and environs... Currently in Abuja airport, having spent my film fees on fights to Calabar. We will have two weeks in Cameroon and goodness how these 8 months have flown... We will be back in our beloved London in the ...
Calabar
... into the hot season (Oct-Feb) yet. Calabar is surprisingly rainy - more so than the rest of Nigeria. It is lovely here. I don't thnk I've emailed about Calabar yet. We got here eventually after a 12 hour bus ride from Abuja. Ordinarily, it would have ...
Week four
... - I had to organise a day for the group which would somehow educate them on an issue prevalent in Calabar. I chose to present on the effects of poverty on Nigeria's education system. Got all the team to teach the children at Flieyo Model (hut on a ...
Creek Town
... really bit us! I found about 5 hiding in my shoe. I found a poisonous centipede in my bag on Wednesday. My bag got wet (Calabar weather is very tropical - pouring with rain one minute and scorching hot the next) and I thought it would be ok left in my ...
Aba, Calabar
... Okada, wie die Moped-Taxen heissen, nicht erlaubt. Hier hab ich schon bis zu fuenf Leuten auf einem gesehen. Wahnsinn. Calabar ist im aeussersten Suedosten des Landes und auf dem Gebiet eines ziemlich kleinen Stammes, also weniger Leute. Deren Frauen ...
The last service
... looking forward to being cold though - I've been sweating constantly for the past 3 months - mm nice.... Think I'm definitely a cold weather person. Goodbye from Calabar! (wish me luck and patience for the forthcoming 13 hour bus ride to ...
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