SLC30-W1 | 24 Hours Travel Reporter : Tourist Attraction Spot.

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So today I decided to visit a tourist park in the heart of my city called Plaza in Uyo, and since it's a 24-hour experience, I had to stay there till it was night. After all, morning, afternoon, evening, and night are classified as one full day. Staying 24 hours on precision would mean staying overnight to complete the hours.

So it's basically visiting the place in the morning when they open and leaving when they close or before. I know it's a park, but the park has security to avoid theft and vandalization. So you can't just enter anytime.

This tourist attraction spot is a park called Ibom Plaza. It was once a place for commerce and exchange and was the most rowdy of places in my city. Now, it's different because some months back, during Christmas Eve, it was renovated and commissioned. That's the history of this place. It is now a renovated park that preserves the culture of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, and it's a place that brings people together, both the rich and the poor.

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It's a place most people would want to go on a tour in. Can you imagine? A Korean came to Uyo some months back and had one of her tours in this park. This is to show that this park is a tourist site. How unique? Permit me to do a review of this place's structure, design, and span.

The park is a two-section park with 6 entrances that allows people to pass through without having to crowd the entrance. The park is very spacious and can accommodate a relatively large number of people. It has protective walls that are small at the entrance and high in other areas. Like I said, it has two sections, Section A and B.

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Section A is just an open space with monuments, a food stand, and a long sit-out space. Section B has business places for printing, framing photos, and a food stand for tourists to make themselves comfortable. If you look close, there are two dominant colors that differentiate Park A from Park B.

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Section A has a dominant orange color mixed with green, designed on its trees. Section B is known for its red color, combined with other colors, and the park benches are painted in different colors—orange, green, and maroon. This place is located at the heart of Uyo, Plaza, and you can locate this place using 6 different directions.

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• Barracks Road

• Oron Rd

• Abak Rd

• Aka Rd

• Nwaniba Rd

• Ikot Ekpene Rd

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These 6 routes are connected to a roundabout where this tourist park is located. In this tourist park, 4 routes share 3 entrances while the remaining 2 routes share two entrances. Concerning the exterior, it has two fountains to perfect the view of this place at night, but unfortunately, they're not working again, and there's a monument in the middle of these two entrances.

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So I decided to start my day by 8 AM in the morning, and I used the main entrance that connects Oron Rd to the roundabout. Before entering, I noticed some services and activities by the exterior of this park. I could capture them because my conscience won't just let me.

• Begging and SIM Registration: This park actually links 4 different routes, and people cross to get to the other route. It's more like a bridge. These are the most prominent activities in this place, as the beggars there are confident that with the crowd of people passing there, they'll show them a little mercy. Also, SIM registration is done there in minutes. POS service is also carried out in the exterior of this place.

On getting inside using the gate, I saw two sets of people with different types of services, which I'd share. I was dressed in a vintage shirt and baggy jeans, responsible.

• Security: There is a squad team by the entrance of this tourist park, and their Hilux keep is parked right in the middle of the entrance; in case there is any malicious activity in the park, they'll take immediate action. They are the people we call quick response service, and they are always there, alert, 24/7. From the little knowledge I have, they do work on a shift basis, though.

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• Photographers for passports: This is the most reliable place to take a one-minute passport, and they are usually seen at the entrance of the park to get customers by the hand to their stand. Their service is very reliable even though I've not patronized them before. From their being swift and approachable, I could tell that they are good at their job..

It was Section A. I entered with no doubt, and using my left, I discovered a food stand with a lot of paired chairs. From these settings, I knew they had something to offer. I then approached one of the sales reps, and she attended to me, telling me the prices of certain things sold there. The manner of approach was top-notch.

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I then moved to Park B during my tour to check other places. I noticed that they have a small printing press in that place, combined with a phone store, a repairs store, and a photo frames store. All 4 in one building. These are the services that are carried out in this building. I decided to print my Canva picture. They told me that color printing isn't done there and that it would be expensive elsewhere. So I decided to do black and white with them. This is the card in black and white.

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• Popcorn and food stand: This was another facility I visited in this place, and I was after the pursuit of popcorn. They told me it wasn't ready. At night, the demand for popcorn is so scary. You'll have to stand in a queue to get your popcorn even with the fact that they have two machines for this purpose.

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• Entertainment Service: This is the only service that's free because there's a large television in front of a mini stadium, and people go there to watch football matches, movies, and other visual entertainment for free. *Their video quality in terms of movie display is damn good, and the balance in sound is also made in a way that won't overly distract others and sound like noise or be excessively loud.

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