Steem Nigeria Contest:The Most Beautiful Moment I Ever Experienced : A Field Trip to Calabar

Sometime May, 2019 our lecture informed us that we will be going to a field trip for one of our course, everyone of us was excited.

Because we wanted the trip for a long time now, we nominated a planning committee to plan the trip for us to choose a location, date,

And the likely fee for the trip, the planning came out successfully.

So the committee choosed Cross River State, Calabar, Nigeria because this state have so many natural features of which the Kwall Fallz and the Calabar River,

With the Atlantic Ocean, just of few of them and the reason for choosing it,

Is because of the course which is "natural resource management and water resource of Nigeria"

We were to leave for Calabar on the 6th of June, it was a weekend so i was in my aunt's place, i woke up very early.

Got prepapred and came to school where we will be taking off.

We were over 100 students that went for the field trip, we went with two luxurious buses.

Ruth and I on the bus!

I was opportuned to be on the same bus with my lecture, so he asked us to take obervation of vegetational chaneges and natural features;

Such as water bodies (lakes, streams, and river), mountains and valley, erosion, land topogaphy, etc

Across the middle South-South to the South-South end of Nigeria which is Calabar. We left Benin at 8:00am and had an 11hours drive.

We passed through Delta State, Anambra State, Imo State, Akwa-Ibom State before we finally arrived in Calabar, Cross River State.

On the way it was fun all through as the driver played some nice music with the AC turned on to spice up the long journey.

While we gist and played as classmates on the bus. Along the way we missed our compass at Imo State.

Then we searching for the right path with our google map search, one of our classmate on the second bus had a running stomach,

Which caused for alarm and made us to park at the middle of where we don't know in Imo State. We all came down from the bus to stretch ourselves.

While the perosn with the running stomach was accompanied by some friends to go into a nearbly bush to clear his system.

With the google map search we found the right path and continued our journey peacefully, we finally arrived Calabar at 6pm, got to the hotel that was booked.

Our lecture and the committee allocate room to everyone, while we went to our rooms to settle down.

Dinner was served from door to door which we never expected. We had our dinner and rested from the long journey.

The next day, we all got ready, had breakfast and went to the field "Kwa Fallz" this is a water fall which originates from Cameroon.

It empties its contents through the "Kwa" an igneous rock to the great Calabar River which inturns empties its contents into the Atlantic Ocean.

This Kwa Fallz was dicovered by an hunter in the 90's and since then it development into a local and national tourism center.

The Kwa Fallz!

Me at the Kwa Fallz!

It was eye-catching and exciting ( to see the beauty of nature and the water falls from the rock but with a roaring sound that will make one scared if alone.

The depth of the fallz is more that 100m deep and the current in this fallz if harnessed can be used to generate electricity according to the tour-guard.

From the Kwa Fallz, we moved to Marina Resort, at the bank of the Calabar River, this is another tourism center in Calabar with the Slave Trade Museum within it.

We went into the museum which shows the history of slave trade in Nigeria, it was annoying and touching to see the sculphures of our ancestors,

Being captured as slaves by the whitemen to work in their country just because of the discovery of new natural resouces in their land

And they need more man power to work while, our ancestor didn't know their motive then.

So they exchanged their children with the whitemen's products such as mirror, bottle of foreign wine, etc.

We were not allowed to take photos in the museum.

From the museum, we went for a boat ride from the Calabar River to the Twin Island, Iyata.

Where Mary Slessor who stopped the killing of twins in Nigeria hid the twins from being killed.

Boat Ride to Twin Island!

It was a great and beautiful experience i had on my feild trip to Calabar which was my first field trip.

The first time i ever had such a long journey across 5 states in Nigeria.

It was also my first time of being to Cross River, Calabar, Imo and Akwa Ibom States in Nigeria.

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