My trip to Kano

Did you know that once the Emir of Kano isn’t in the palace, it’s easy to tell because the palace flag goes down? Wondering how I got this info? Well, because I just got back from Kano so stay tuned while I pepper you small with what I learnt from my trip to Kano. Although I have been putting off blogging about this just because I can be Lazy sometimes and other times words fail me.

I had to sweet talk myself to posting this today, I even went as far as buying a “gotta have it” cold stone cup of ice cream to reward myself afterwards. Moving on, if you know me so well, you can easily tell I am passionate about tourism, be it local or international my leg just itches to hop on a plane or bus and move but most times my bank account isn’t Gbagam like psquare’s own. I sha know that someday my bank account will stop disappointing me and allow me be great.

When I heard there was an official trip to Kano, I quickly declined (thank God for second chance), the reason I did was because I couldn’t find any suitable (to my taste) kinda hotel so there was no way I was going to manage just any hotel but because God loves His children, I was looking into my colleagues system the next morning and saw ‘Bristol Palace Hotel’. Oh my God! My jaws dropped once I saw the hotel, couldn’t even believe after my one hour search and not seeing anything I liked, I was facing this beauty. I was so speechless with the architecture-literally. I just imagined myself checked into one of the rooms and as luck will have it, I finally went on the trip. Whew!

Booked our Azman air ticket, although Arik and Med view fly’s that route but earlier hours of the day while we needed an evening flight. We got into Kano at about 8:13pm and finally got check into the hotel at 9:30pm. I couldn’t curtail my excitement, so I started taking my selfie from the hotel lobby forgetting how tired I was.

My view from my hotel room was so beautiful, it was the view of the swimming pool, water calm and still with light shining from within, a perfect atmosphere for love birds or just to relax only that my body needed her beauty sleep and I had to obey. 

The next morning, we went down to have our breakfast before we head out for what took us to Kano… let’s skip the details of how our hotel booking was messed up a bit, skipping it because the General Manager is a fine bobo plus he assisted very well. By the time we were done with our meeting in Kano, we realized we still had time to faff around so we asked for a tour of Kano. Unfortunately for us, all we saw was Sabon Gari (mostly for non-natives) and Hajj camp market because our host car developed fault.

Once we picked up the car from the mechanic which at that point was already late (about 8pm) we decided to head back to the hotel passing through Northwest University that has a very fine structure I must say. It reminded me of a lot of universities in Jand.  When we got back to the hotel we decided to go and have a feel of the swimming area of the hotel. My colleague probably had a better time than I did because for some reason the Kano mosquitoes wanted to suck my blood dry and since I wasn’t ready to treat malaria, I respected myself and went in to sleep.

The next morning, we went down to have breakfast, we had “something light” as we were not really hungry LOL. But before breakfast we booked down a cab to take us back to the airport and asked if he could take us to the Emir’s palace and Museum before we left, after all we claim to be tourist so how can we come all the way and not try to visit the Emir? When we got to the palace, we were told we couldn’t go in since we had no appointment, although the driver tried to help us, he was told the Emir wasn’t in the palace and he confirmed it when he noticed the flag wasn’t there.

We asked if we could take pictures and were told we could only take pictures from the car, since half bread is better than puff puff we decided to take some shots. Visiting the palace and the Museum and hearing so much history made me fall in love with the state. A beautiful place I must say, with good roads and light. The people so welcoming, I plan to go back soon as I didn’t get to tick off all my to do list but I must say my trip was amazing. I had so much fun and interacted with so many amazing people. Just one minor challenge other than that it was awesome. Lest I forget, the Kilishi (dried suya) is so delicious and cheap or like a friend will say, it’s so affordable.

Now enjoy the pictures and thank me later. Super excited to be getting rid of the pictures because my phone memory was about driving me cray cray.

Sitting pretty like a bride.. This is maiden room, where she sits  and waits for her groom

If you are ever in Kano, Bristol is the best place to Lodge

The one time we got good salty food in a restaurant LOL

Dabbing for the Museum

The four pillars indicates the four wives to be married into a home

Peep Pharaoh's picture. gifted by the Egyptian embassy 

the library

board used to teach the children

First Bank - Barclays

First car in the city of Kano

sitting pretty in front of the maidens quarter

The Gates used to at each entrance to Kano 

A maidens plate to feed serve her husband

the maidens room... a note to the bride

Old Kudi... Naira Biyu Lol

Hunters Kit..

The former palace living room, where the Emir receives visitors

The Flag that shows when the Emir is in his palace

City of Kano showing the four entrance gate

Emirs Kit

Now tell me you don't envy me!!! Trust me when I say it's a beautiful city to visit and very clean too.