These tourist locations in Nigeria will captivate you and keep you drooling for months after visiting them. Most of the tourist locations in Nigeria can compete with any world-class attraction centres around the world. So if you’re a fun-lover, you should consider visiting these locations.
1. Agbokim Waterfalls:
This is situated in the Etung Local Government area of Cross River State, very close to its border with Cameroon. Situated about 17 kilometres from Ikom and 315kilometres from Calabar and it is made up of Seven Streams.
It is surrounded by steep hills and valleys, which are encircled by a rainbow-like atmosphere, Agbokim falls remains one of the best destinations in Cross River State
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2. Lekki Conservation Centre:
The centre was established in 1990 to serve as a biodiversity conservation icon and environment education centre. The facility was built by the Chevron Corporation for the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF).
The reserve area which covers a land area of 78 hectares is located on the Lekki peninsula which consists of swamp and savannah habitats.
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3. Bridge Of No Return:
In Ikot Abasi is a Bridge of No Return where any slaves that passed never returned. At the bank of the Imo River estuary, a walking distance from the Amalgamation house and Colonial offices is a jetty and a bridge designed to enable free movement to and from the river, to enable movement into boats and canoes.
Slaves were walked down this bridge to the canoes for onward movement to the slave ships that lay anchored in the middle of the high sea waiting for their human cargoes for the onward journey through the Atlantic ocean to the vast plantations in Europe and AmeAmerica
4. Ezeagu Waterfalls:
This is located in Obinofia Ndiuno community of Ezeagu Local government area of Enugu state and popularly called ‘Ogbagada’ with warm and cold springs known as Okpoku.
The Ezeagu water rushes down the cliff with a thunderous sound that attracts attention from some metres away. The fall has a special ability to signal the beginning of the dry season through an unusually loud noise.
5. Idere Hills:
This attraction in Oyo state is one of the latest tourist locations in Nigeria. It was commissioned as a tourist attraction site in 2020. It is a historical mountain surrounded by a beautiful green landscape.
The mountain has an interesting story dating back as far as over 600years. It is located in a quiet town known as Idere in Oyo state. It is one of the most beautiful landscapes in Nigeria.
6. Cashew Island In Eastern Obolo:
This beautiful beachside view is located on an island beach, 20mins away from the Iko town river bank. It has an abundance of Cashew and Almond trees which is where its name is derived from. It has the longest coastline beach in Africa.
7. Ikogosi Warm Spring:
The Ikogosi warm spring is a tourist attraction located at Ikogosi, a town in Ekiti State, southwestern Nigeria. Flowing above the warm spring is another cold spring which meets the warm spring at a confluence, each maintaining its thermal properties. Research shows that the spring has a temperature of about 70°c at the source and 37°c at the confluence.
8. Ngwo Pine Forest:
This is a Pine forest near the centre of Enugu. The forest hosts a limestone cave sculpted with a small waterfall that forms a shallow pool at the bed of the cave. Very suitable for a recreational area of a picnic.
9. Yankari National Park:
This is one of the top tourist locations in Nigeria. It is a large wildlife park located in the south-central part of Bauchi state. It covers an area of about 2,244 square kilometres (866 sq mi) and is home to several warm water springs as well as a wide variety of flora and fauna. Yankari was created as a game reserve in 1956 and it plays a crucial role in the development and promotion of tourism in Nigeria.
10. Ogbunike Cave:
This cave is located in a forested valley area in Ogbunike local government area of Anambra state. A long walkway of 317 steps was built to enable safe and easy descent to the cave. Tradition demands that visitors enter the cave barefooted and restricts women in their monthly period. Also, during the tour, visitors are restricted from stepping into a certain small depression made by flowing water on the floor of the cave. Although consequences are still unknown.
11. Okomu Forest Reserve:
Formerly the Okomu Wildlife Sanctuary is a forest block within the 1,082 km2 (418 sq mi) Okomu Forest Reserve in the Ovia South-West Local Government Area of Edo State in Nigeria. The park is about 60 km (37 mi) northwest of Benin City. The park holds a small fragment of the rich forest that once covered the region, and is the last habitat for many endangered species. It continues to shrink as villages encroach on it, and is now less than one-third of its original size.
12. Oron Museum:
This is a museum in Oron, Nigeria. The museum was established in 1958 to accommodate eight hundred known ancestral figures (Ekpu Oro) of the Oron people which are believed to be among the oldest and finest surviving wood carvings in Africa. During the civil war, many of the wood carvings were looted and the museum was severely damaged. In 1975, the museum was reinaugurated and today houses the remains of the wooden sculptures and other ethnographic materials from across Nigeria. The museum also has displays of bunkers used during the civil war as well as a crafts village.
13. Gurara Waterfalls:
Gurara Waterfalls is located in Gurara, a local government area of Niger State, North Central Nigeria. The waterfall is approximately 30 metres in height and it lies on the Gurara River along the Suleja-Minna Road.
According to oral history, Gurara Waterfalls was discovered by a Gwari hunter called Buba in 1745 before some Europeans discovered it in 1925 after they found it as a recreation centre. Prior to the discovery of the waterfalls by the Europeans, Gurara Waterfalls was worshipped by people living in communities around it. Oral history also has it that Gurara Waterfalls and Gurara River were named after two deities called Gura and Rara.
14. Ibeno Beach:
Ibeno Beach is one of the beaches on the Atlantic Ocean along the shorelines of Ibeno. It is the longest sand beach in West Africa.
Ibeno beach is located in Ibeno, a local government area of Akwa Ibom State in southeastern Nigeria, which it is named after. The beach is one of the tourist attractions in Nigeria.
15. Biu Plateau: This is a highland area in Borno state, Northeastern Nigeria containing many recently extinct volcanoes. It covers about 5,200 km2 (2,000 sq mi) and has an average elevation of 700 m (2,300 ft). The plateau lies between the Upper Benue Basin to the south and the Chad Basin to the north. High points are Wade Hill at 775 m (2,543 ft) above sea level and Wiga Hill, at well over 800 m (2,600 ft). The plateau is the source of many tributaries of the Gongola River, which have cut deep gorges. To the north, the plateau slopes gently to the Bauchi plains and the Chad Basin.
