As you already probably know, Abuja is the capital of Nigeria. Myself I grew up in Calabar, a city in the southern part of Nigeria; Calabar is not a mountainous city neither does it have so many ricks lying around. On growing up and leaving Calabar one thing that has really fascinated me about the new places and cities I've visited is the topography and soil. In Calabar the soil is more of white and yellowish, going up North away from Calabar the soil is usually redish with varying textures.
The topography and Mountains around Abuja are surely one of the things outside Calabar that catch my eyes. This post is about them. In these parts there is always a mountain or mountains in sight somewhere in the horizons, I think these two following photos should be the farthest I ever got from a mountain:
The rest of the time they are usually not that far off in the horizons:
Some of these mountains are so big, you go really far away from them but they're still there. This following one is so big too many stores are buildings around have it well seated behind them as a background, same mountain, different places using it as a backdrop:
Then, for the final one I snapped Nigeria's most famous rock, the Zuma rock in all it's towering glory:
This is the rock on the back of our 100 naira note snapped from another angle:
Since I knew about Zuma rick since I was a child when I first heard of South Africa's expresident Jacob Zuma, I didn't believe Zuma was his name too, I thought people just called him that because his head is shaped like this rock:
Until I found out it was his actual name, so surprising, because that's such a coincidence! Your name is Zuma and it just so happens your head is shaped like a rock that has been living millenniums before you were born also called Zuma. Damn.
Alright, we've come to the end of this post, Zuma rock bids you bye:
Bye lay ladies and gents.
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