Walking downhill around the Water Park

The Water Park is downhill, two steps away from the low cable car station.

It wasn't finished yet when I was there in december 2006.

A better wiew - two years later,
from Bob and Lisa's blog

Back to the cable car station to return on the Obudu plateau.

The panoramic road to the Obudu Cattle ranch...

You can reach the Cattle Ranch, at 1600 m. asl, in Obudu's highlands

by cable car or by this 11.25 km steep road from the hill's base.

Since 2005, this road is the site of the annual
Obudu Ranch Intl mountain Race

A midway hairpin bend is called Devil's Elbow...


(This picture on 2nd edition of Bradt guide of NIGERIA)

(Shots by the Flying C@t).

obudu cattle ranch
(more recent pictures - 2008 - here)

Trekking to the cataract.

Two hiking trails are proposed to visitors...

the 3 hours' to the cataract (4 for G@tto) and a 6 hours' to a waterfall.
I refused to see the waterfall !

See the mountain in front of our (white T-shirt) guide ?
We had to go up... and down !

The ranch cattle.

We passed al least three mountains before we can see the cataract down there...

Sometimes water is the absolute source of happiness !

After one hour of happy pawns in fresh water,
here we are again ! Up and down...



(My personal guardian angel)

Enlarge this pic and you will see G@tto in the distance,
in his painful way back, escorted by one of the kids...

Happily it was a regular trekking ! With some killers on his heels,
no doubt he would have been the easiest prey.