Guide
The road up to the cattle ranch
A Scottish rancher started a cattle station on the Obudu plateau in 1951 because the weather reminded him of home.
South-South
Obudu
Cross River State
6.6689° N, 9.1663° E
Cattle country on the Cameroon border, at a temperature the rest of the region does not have.
About this place
The Obudu plateau rises to about 1,600 metres on the Cameroon frontier, high enough that a Scottish rancher established a cattle ranch here in 1951 because the climate reminded him of home. The grasslands on top are cool and wet; the road up is a series of switchbacks that is itself the reason many people come. The Becheve communities have farmed this escarpment far longer than the ranch has existed.
Everything from Obudu
1 story, newest first.
Food in Obudu
Guide
The road up to the cattle ranch
A Scottish rancher started a cattle station on the Obudu plateau in 1951 because the weather reminded him of home.
Field notes from Obudu
Ini Etuk
It rains on the plateau most afternoons between two and four, hard and then finished. The lodges plan around it and visitors do not, which is why the cable car queue is longest at exactly the wrong time of day.
Where to go next
Editorial adjacency rather than distance — somewhere it makes sense to go from here.
