Port Harcour

Nestled along the port town in southern Nigeria, here is your invitation to visit Port Harcourt. Having around 3.7 million in population in Port Harcourt or the capital of Rivers state lies along the Bonny River. The city featuring 41 miles upstream from the Gulf of Guinea was founded in 1912 in an area traditionally inhabited by the Ijaw people. Once you have decided to pay your trip to Port Harcourt, the land welcomes their visitors with its mystical beauties and some beautiful sites to visit. Visitors having interest for natural and environments should surely plan their holiday vacation to this beautiful city. Also known as the Garden City displays numerous collections of beautiful parks and gardens. Your trip will mostly include exploring various natural forests, beautiful gardens or getting information about the oil industry in Nigeria. Travelers having interest for having a short trip can definitely plan their holiday trip to visit this excellent place. Basically the touristy areas of Port Harcourt are its environmental and natural hot spots. However, your trip to Port Harcourt will not take you to much attracting sites to visit or to any historical place to explore, so it does not means that you’ll drop the idea of visit the city.

Being known to be one of the garden cities in Africa, Port Harcourt has long been an important merchant port and is today the centre of Nigeria oil industry. Among the famous items to export petroleum, coal, tin, palm products, cocoa, and groundnuts are the main. The main city of Port Harcourt is the Port Harcourt town in the Port Harcourt City Local Government Area featuring the former European quarters now called old Government reservation area (GRA) and New layout areas. Travelers can plan their half day excursions to the neighboring towns of Port Harcourt- Diobu. You’ll surely be in love seeing the Rebisi settlement in Diobu or the Okrika settlement in Abuloma or the Okrika settlement in Isaka. Port Harcourt is one of Nigeria’s leading industrial centers, at the Trans-Amadi Industrial Estate, tires; aluminum products, glass bottles, and paper are manufactured. Port Harcourt also boasts for featuring as the site of traditional boatbuilding and fishing industries and has fish-freezing facilities. One can spend their time by taking an hour drive outside of the City of Izumini River. Borikiri Market and the Port Harcourt Zoo are also worth watching places. You’ll surely be amaze to see the Podium Block of Rivers State Secretariat, as it is an icon of the city. Must participate at the annual Rivifest, the festival takes place in the month of November and it usually features various cultural dances belonging to the culturally diverse state.