Following series of conversations with travel bloggers (home and abroad), two of the most challenging part of every trip is getting cheap fare, and packing for the trip. While a lot of them have managed to managed to figure out a way around getting cheap flights through companies like Travelstart ,packing minimally for trips has…
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My Terrible Road Trip From Lagos To Calabar
If you were already a teenager in the early 2000s, you must have been a fan of a popular weekly family TV series titled Super story. And if you were as devoted as I was, you by chance should have seen countless commercials on Obudu cattle in Cross River state. Did you? Bother less if you didn’t…
Nine Things I Learned About Cross River (Calabar)
Yesterday, I hung out with few of my friends at a local bar in my neighbourhood. I had barely tasted from my beer when two of them blurted “Haw far Calabar naw?” I was stunned for a few seconds. Not because they asked simultaneously nor was I surprised they asked, but because I didn’t just…
The only Regret I have This Easter
I could have easily blurted “mixed feelings!” had anyone asked what the reason behind my moodiness is but the percentage of disappointment is somewhat greater than that of my happiness, more because both situations are tied to the same source. Easter. On the positive note I’ve always longed for the day I’d finally get to…
7 Things I learned Traveling Round South-West Nigeria
In a journey which started in 2017, when i started my travel expedition of the world starting out with south-west Nigeria, I have come to learn a lot traveling round these states by the interaction and subliminal immersion into their cultures and norms. All these are in a bid to reveal the tourism potentials of…
Why Do Nigerians Hate Traveling Within Nigeria?
Few days ago, intrigued, I put up a poll on twitter to actually know why Nigerians don’t like traveling within Nigeria. They instead prefer to remain in their states of birth or prefer to fly outside the country instead. Here’s the Result I think it’d be safe to say a lot of Nigerians really want…
Before You Die, Please Travel To Idanre Hills
The tiring spell at Arinta waterfall and Ikogosi, combined with the brutal journey from Lagos the previous day conspired to create in me an illusion that waking up might be impossible, let alone travel to Idanre hills. I snoozed my phone’s alarm multiple times. Everything seemed to be against me. The cold was fierce, the…
Ikogosi Warm and Cold Spring Is Over-Hyped?
As a child, we lived in a face-me-I-face-you apartment where Iya Bukky during one of her weekly tales by moonlight told us about a sacred spring in her hometown (Ekiti) where two bodies of water (one very cold and the other so hot that it can be used in making Eba) flowed continuously. I have since…
Nomadic Negro’s 2017 In Retrospect
As hinted on my blog’s birthday, I was in my final year in Unilag when I vowed to ravel the world. I can still remember that night in JAJA hall as I asked myself severally if I really wanted to do this. How and when wasn’t clear but I sure knew where to start. My…
Five Quick Things You need to Know About My 2018 Travel Plans
For over 48 hours now, I’ve been masturbating over the proposed release of my 2018 travel plans. Even though I didn’t have a resolution for the year per say, I had few general goals of which traveling and writing more are two of them. For me to travel more, I need to be kind of structured…