http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Nigeria/Calabar/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Nigeria , Calabar en-us Tue, 08 Dec 09 14:18:02 +0000 Tue, 08 Dec 09 14:18:02 +0000 Overshot the border as there were no signposts we got to Nigeria without getting stamped so we had to go back. This is in Ilara a border town while our passports are being processed we had truck lunch once through we tried to change money in town but wont change dollars for us so we moved on Not one minute later we got stopped by Immigration checkpoint and there will be 8 more that afternoon http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Nigeria/Calabar/blog-238013.html OK I'm posting this really late so some of these aren't terribly new but here in Calabar 'tigs dey happeno' While most outgoing governors here are busy planning to leave the country there is some nontrivial stuff being unveiled as Mr Duke prepares to leave office. Well done http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Nigeria/Calabar/blog-230941.html Linus Ita is an incredibly determined person. I certainly did not meet him by chance. This strongly built man with steadfast demeanor was attending every meeting related to renewable energy he could committed to figuring out how to bring it to his unelectrified village. He had been doing so long before I came to this country. In 1998 Linus founded a communitybased conservation society to prom http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Nigeria/Calabar/blog-203936.html From Benin we crossed into Nigeria and we have spent the past few days driving almost non stop to Abuja stopping only for eating sleeping and buying food. It was a long few days Nigeria has been great so far not that we've seen much. The people are awesomely friendly especially the kids but the adults too shouting and waving whenever we drive past kids jumping up and down its great http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Nigeria/Calabar/blog-185263.html It is not a fair reflection on Nigeria that the subject I choose to write about for this particular blog is how I left the country. Yet leaving was the most entertaining part of an entertaining couple of weeks crossing this big bewildering nation. Nigeria was never a country high on my list of places to visit. It has even less tourist sights than its neighbouring West African countries and even http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Nigeria/Calabar/blog-171570.html Well this isnrsquot exactly how Irsquod planned to write my blog but unfortunately itrsquos the way itrsquos panned out Lack of internet access lack of bandwidth when you do have the internet one dialup connection shared between four people anybody and lack of electricity through constant power cuts over the last 6 weeks or so mean that its been impossible to keep up to date wit http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Nigeria/Calabar/blog-149541.html