{"id":511,"date":"2006-08-29T14:55:05","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T14:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2006\/08\/29\/information-for-visitors-to-sukur\/"},"modified":"2009-02-27T10:37:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T10:37:58","slug":"information-for-visitors-to-sukur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2006\/08\/29\/information-for-visitors-to-sukur\/","title":{"rendered":"Information for visitors to Sukur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re interested in visiting the Sukur kingdom you&#8217;ll find some background information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sukur.info\/\">sukur.info<\/a>, written by some anthropologists who worked there.<\/p>\n<p>I put together a <a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Sukur\/SukurMapMM.pdf\">map<\/a> of the area, based on the Federal Survey&#8217;s 1969 Madagali NW and SW sheets.  It took quite a bit of effort to scan the map in, calibrate it, convert from the weird Nigeria East Belt Grid (measured in feet, of course) to UTM grid (GPS-compatible) and turn it into a nice PDF.  It will print out on two sheets of A4 which you can stick together.<\/p>\n<p>A few things to note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You <em>should<\/em> get written permission from a National Commission for Museums and Monuments office before visiting Sukur.  There&#8217;s one in Maiduguri and others in Abuja and most state capitals.<\/li>\n<li>It helps if you speak at least some Hausa, many of the Sukur people speak no English.<\/li>\n<li>Getting to Sukur isn&#8217;t as difficult as the guidebooks make out, if you leave Maiduguri early you&#8217;ll be at the palace by midafternoon.<\/li>\n<li>It might be a good idea to spend the night in one of the villages at the bottom and then walk up to Sukur in the morning, when it&#8217;s cooler.<\/li>\n<li>Take something to use as padding, the bamboo beds are very hard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To get to Sukur:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maiduguri seems to be the most convenient place to start.<\/li>\n<li>Take a bush taxi from Maiduguri to Bama, from the Bama motor park.  Alternatively you may be able to get a bus all the way to Madagali (probably heading to Mubi).<\/li>\n<li>From Bama you should be able to pick up a bus to Madagali.<\/li>\n<li>You can either drop at Madagali or at the turn-off for Mildo (there&#8217;s a sign advertising Sukur World Heritage site).  We hired a minibus from Madagali to Mildo for 1000 Naira, on the way back we took okadas for 200 Naira each.<\/li>\n<li>Go to the museums office by the district chief&#8217;s house to sign in.  If the office is closed ask someone to show you to the museum&#8217;s guide&#8217;s house.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll be guided up the mountain by one of the NCMM guides.  It&#8217;s not an especially strenuous hike but steep in parts and very hot if the sun&#8217;s out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re interested in visiting the Sukur kingdom you&#8217;ll find some background information at sukur.info, written by some anthropologists who worked there. I put together a map of the area, based on the Federal Survey&#8217;s 1969 Madagali NW and SW sheets. It took quite a bit of effort to scan the map in, calibrate it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sukur","category-travel","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}