Advice on booking local tours when visiting Nigeria
|December 31, 2012||Posted by Vishal under Nigeria Visa Application||
After applying for the selected Nigerian visa type preferred, your next step will probably involve seeking advice on booking local tours when visiting Nigeria. Moreover, as a UK traveller on a Nigeria visa who is visiting the country for the first time, your desire to see as much of Nigeria as possible would be hardly surprising.
Given the fact that there are just a few professional guided tour operators who function locally, planning your vacation in Nigeria may easily turn out to be quite a challenge. One reasonably acceptable option you could go for is letting your hotel or resort arrange all trips and excursions to visit various cultural and natural attractions in Nigeria. As second viable option, with your Nigeria visa at hand, you could let a locally based tour organiser offer you various packages that showcase sights of special interest and popular tourist attractions throughout this vivid country.
City and Countrywide Tours
Self-tailored city and countrywide tours will show you around Lagos, the country financial hub and home for over ten million enterprising Nigerians. Comprising three islands, Lekki Peninsula and a widespread coastal mainland part, Lagos offers a chunk of both urban sights and natural attractions. Your tour could cover visiting the local national museum; an exciting shopping spree to outdoor markets of the city for a perfect-fit outfit, souvenirs or crafts; a boat trip on the creeks and the lagoon; and a concluding buffet meal, accompanied by a traditional cultural show and live music to keep your spirits high.
These tours showcase Nigeria’s cultural diversity among various indigenous ethnic groups. Keeping the season in view, a 4-day tour could well feature remarkable thanksgiving ceremonies organised at the Osun shrine. Yoruba love, wealth and fertility spirit; Igbo people celebrating the masquerade carnival; Kebbi State fishing festival of the Argungu that includes craft exhibitions, rituals and competitions; or the pageant, horsemanship parade and Durbar festival. Guided sightseeing, hotel accommodations and air transfers are generally included in these tours.
These tours offer nine packages which showcase natural wonders of Nigeria, ranging in duration between three to fourteen days. Generally, they include outdoor activities and tours, transfers and hotel accommodations. Tour of the Obudu Ranch is a 5-day package which includes a hotel stay at Calabar, in addition to stay at Obudu in the Protea Ranch Resort. It takes you to the temperate and hilly region close to the border of Cameroon, particularly famous for natural beauty of the place. Activities include bird watching, hiking or riding in the adjacent Becheve Nature Park, visiting Ikom monolith from AD 900 and a ride on the cable car. The Gashaka-Gumti 10-day Expedition takes you on a tour of hot springs and hippopotamus habitats, climbing the highest mountains in Nigeria and a visit to remote villages.
This post was written by Vishal Mavadia, Business Director Visa Services London