Cross River State Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Tourism== [[File:Boshi extension, Okwangwo Division of Cross River National Park.3.jpg|300px|thumb|Cross River National Park]] From the soaring plateaus of the mountain tops of [[Obanliku]] to the Rain forests of Afi, from the [[Agbokim Waterfalls|Waterfalls of Agbokim]] and [[Great Kwa River|Kwa]] to the spiralling ox-bow [[Calabar River]] which provides sights and images of the [[Tinapa Resort|Tinapa Business Resort]], [[Marina Resort|Marina resort]], Calabar Residency Museum and the Calabar Slave Park along its course, there is always a thrilling adventure awaiting the eco-tourist visiting Cross River State.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-09|title=10 top things to see and do in Cross River state|url=https://www.pulse.ng/lifestyle/food-travel/10-top-things-to-see-and-do-in-cross-river-state/0txh2rg|access-date=2021-08-08|website=Pulse Nigeria|language=en}}</ref> Other tourist attractions are the [[Ikom Monoliths]] (a series of volcanic-stone monoliths of unknown age), the [[Mary Slessor]] Tomb, Calabar Drill Monkey Sanctuary, [[Cross River National Park]], [[Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary|Afi Mountain]] walkway canopy, Kwa falls, [[Agbokim Waterfalls|Agbokim waterfalls]], [[Tinapa Resort|Tinapa Business Resort]], Mono rail way and the annual [[Calabar Carnival]] that takes place during the [[Christmas]] period. Cross River State can be accessed by air through the [[Margaret Ekpo International Airport]] at Calabar. There are daily flights to Calabar from Lagos and Abuja serviced by airlines such as [[Air Peace|Air peace]] Airlines, [[Ibom Air]] Airlines and recently [[Cally Air]], operated by Aero Contractors which worked for about 5 months in 2021 and at the start of 2022, it stopped operation. The Cross River state-owned airline, Cally Air, might have run aground after two years of operations and operational debt in excess of N900 million to its technical partner, Aero Contractors.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nigeria |first=Guardian |date=2023-05-30 |title=Controversy over Cally Air assets, N900 million debt to Aero Contractors |url=https://guardian.ng/business-services/controversy-over-cally-air-assets-n900-million-debt-to-aero-contractors/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News |language=en-US}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page