Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Nigeria
We publish no month-by-month table. On Nigeria the question that decides a trip is not when you go but which states you can go to.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Nigeria: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Surame: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A Hausa kingdom of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, nine kilometers across, now walls and wells in the scrub. Sokoto is all but essential travel.
Heritage
Ancient Kano City Walls: Visitor and Heritage Guide
An earth wall with a fourteen kilometer radius, around a market and a palace that are still working. Kano is all but essential travel.
Heritage
Idanre Hill: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A town lived on top of an isolated rock hill for centuries, and its palace, its court and its belfry are still up there today.
Heritage
Sukur Cultural Landscape: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A hilltop kingdom with terraced fields and the remains of an iron industry. The FCDO advises against all travel to the state it stands in.
Heritage
Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A century ago every Yoruba town had a sacred grove. This is the largest one left, and UNESCO calls it probably the last in Yoruba culture.
Destination
Nigeria
The Osun sacred grove and the terraced hill settlement at Sukur: two World Heritage sites, one of them inside the region both advisories close.