More visitors are expected at the Yankari Game Reserve in Bauchi State before the end of the year as the managers of the first West African game reserve are reportedly intensifying efforts to improve some of its facilities and side attractions. This is coming as tourists relayed their recent experiences of the reserve and marveled at the exciting Wikki Warm Spring, with crystal clear water from a natural source and its constant temperature even with change in weather.
Inside Yankari Reserve: Notwithstanding the Boko Haram scare with other forms of insecurity in that area of the country, a report which the management said was being exaggerated, at least 50,000 visitors are targeted to eperience the new Yankari Game Reserve.
The 50,000 targeted visitors, according to the Acting General Manager, Yankari Game Reserve, Mohammed Ladan, is about 71 per cent of the number of tourists that visited the reserve last year. He recalled that in 2017, “we had 20,152 tourists’ influx into Yankari but there was an increase in the year 2018 whereby it increased to 29,215 visitors.
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