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Anambra State, Nigeria
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Nri is a rural community in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State.
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Nri Museum
Established in 1972 in collaboration with the University of Ibadan, this is one of the most culturally significant ethnographic museums in Southern Nigeria. It acts as the primary repository for the ancient Kingdom of Nri, housing artifacts, ritual emblems, sacrificial bronzes, and ancestral carvings dating back to 900 AD. It provides a rare look into traditional Igbo oral histories and spiritual cosmology.
The town can be accessed by Air through Chinụa Achebe Airport or by Land through any of the transport services.
Read in the guideThe people of this town can move around with their personal vehicles. Tricycles, popularly known as Keke, have become a more rampant means of transportation in the town.
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Food & drinkNigerian cuisine consists of dishes or food items from the hundreds of ethnic groups that comprise Nigeria from the north to the south to the east and the west. Nigeria is home to numerous varieties of foods.
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ItinerariesLagos-Ibadan Railway is a 157-kilometre rail trip in South West Nigeria from Ebute Metta in Lagos to Moniya in Ibadan. The trip is a section of the proposed Lagos to Kano Standard Gauge Rail Project.
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Travel tipsLasting from the 1500s to the 1800s, the Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity of extraordinary proportions, leaving a huge mark on four continents and irreversibly changing world history and geopolitics.
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Travel tipsDriving a car gives a traveller more independence and flexibility than scheduled transportation, such as air travel, rail travel, or bus travel, and may be faster or more comfortable than cycling.
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