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Can attend the festival which happens at an announced date in December.
Ayet Atyap Annual Cultural Festival is an age-long chain of festive activities and ceremonies observed by the Atyap people of Southern Kaduna, Middle Belt Nigeria. It was traditionally carried out to usher in the farming season for the year between mid-March and mid-April and was organized by male members, the Aku clan who have already been initiated into the Abwoi cult. Of recent, the event has been shifted to December and celebrated in the Agwatyap's palace square in Atak Njei, Zangon Kataf LGA, southern Kaduna State. It is usually well attended by important guests from within and outside the state, including political and traditional leaders.
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One of the most modern palaces in Southern Kaduna, constructed in the early 2000s.
The area the first itinerant trader from Kanem-Borno, Mallam Mele, settled during the trans-Saharan trade era in the 18th century. From there, the settlement moved a little westward to present day Zangon Kataf town.
An ancient silk cotton tree as old as Zangon Kataf town itself (or older), which appears in the emblem of the Atyap chiefdom, having great cultural significance.
Go see the ruins of the "city" walls of the settlement believed to be the point of dispersal of the Atyap clan of Aminyam (from whom the Fantswam broke away) which migrated from the Jos-Bauchi plateau via Kallah in Adara land, to settle in their present places of aboard. Take a guide with you to show you the precise location, as the settlement is more of an abandoned one.
Kamuku National Park is a wildlife reserve that offers game viewing and hiking activities, with the best time to visit being from November to May.