Calabar

Worth seeing in and around Calabar

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   U. J. Esuene Stadium

   The U. J. Esuene Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Calabar, Nigeria. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Calabar Rovers and previously Dolphins F.C. The stadium has a capacity of 16,000 and was opened in 1977.

   1.6 km · building in Nigeria · Wikipedia
2. 02
   University of Cross River State

   University of Cross River State is a Cross River State-owned tertiary institution with four campuses spread across four Local Government Areas of the state. The university was formerly known as the Cross River University of Technology.

   5.5 km · a university in Nigeria · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Calabar Old Residency Museum

   The Old Residency Museum is a government-run museum in the city of Calabar in Nigeria. The museum was constructed in the colonial time in 1884 in old Calabar and was named as the Government House.

   400 m · Museum in Nigeria · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Cross River State Library

   The Cross River State Library is a public library in central Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. The library's collection contains over 4,000 texts.

   1.8 km · public library in Calabar, Nigeria · Wikipedia
5. 05
   University of Calabar Library

   The University of Calabar Library is an autonomous research institution and the main academic library of the University of Calabar, located in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. The current University Librarian is Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui.

   400 m · academic library in Nigeria · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Slave History Museum

   The Slave History Museum is a museum in the Nigerian city of Calabar, which was a major embarkation port of the African Slave Trade, about 200,000 Africans being sold as slaves from Calabar between 1662 and 1863. Established in 2007 and opened on 17 March 2011, the museum was established as a tourism initiative by the Cross River State and is directly managed by the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments.

   2.5 km · National Museum in Calabar, Nigeria · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

There is a lot of colonial architecture in the older parts of Calabar that are around Henshaw Town, Duke Town and the waterfront areas. Duke Town Hall (Ekpe Stone), Eton by Eyamba Street. The present site of the Magistrate Court was before colonialism, more or less a town hall which was used also as an Ekpe lodge and the “Itiat Ekpe” there represents it.

1. 01
   Drill Monkey Rehab Centre

   Atekong Dr (on Atekong Dr west of Jahas Guest House), info@pandrillus.org.

2. 02
   Duke Town

   Built in 1846, one of the oldest churches in Nigeria.

3. 03
   The Marina Resort
4. 04
   National Museum

   Ekpo Eyo Drive, Duke Town (on the hill overlooking the waterfront, in the Old Government House).

5. 05
   Slave History Museum

   Located in a former slave-trading warehouse.

From Wikivoyage: Calabar, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

1. 01
   Tinapa Resort

From Wikivoyage: Calabar, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

Go to Bogobiri Corner (Suya Arcade) and enjoy suya from the many vendors. Freddy's Restaurant is the local eaterie. Run by Ellie and a very professional staff, Freddies is a successful and well run restaurant. Main menu is Lebanese foods but Ellie will try to please everyone. Good salads, fish and best of all huge prawns are the best. Local beers, wines and all drinks are available and all at good prices.

From Wikivoyage: Calabar, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Calabar

Airports

Malabo (SSG), 142 km · Port Harcourt (PHC), 154 km · Douala (DLA), 187 km

Stations

Margaret Ekpo International Airport, 1 km

• Port Harcourt → Calabar

  147 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · ₦11,600–15,500
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• Enegu → Calabar

  4567 km · quickest by air, 20h 40m · €950–1,420
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• Asaba → Calabar

  224 km · quickest by road, 4h 43m · ₦17,050–22,750
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No local-transport research exists yet for Calabar

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Calabar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Calabar – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.