Kwa Falls: The echoes of silence in falling waters...

By

Eneminyene Eromosele

"A narrowly mapped out pathway, decorated with granites and red sand, the synergy of cool rural sea breeze and heavy waterfall roar to interrupt the silence of nature's profound succour, the paradoxical collision of peace and violence in the subtle imaginative reality of a dualistic universe".

 Kwa Falls is located in Anegeje Village in Akamkpa Local Government Area, Cross - River State. This waterfall is located just inside Cross River National Park, about 25 kilometers north of Calabar.

Also, Kwa falls is a rhythmic chain of that strong combination of ancestral Heritage with the echoes of Mother nature, a dark parcel of running water decorated in vegetative beauty by the forestation around it, the resonance of inner peace and the rejuvenation of solace with an atmosphere of a pure soul meditation. 

In it's perfect reflection of the symbolism of dualism, the large chain of water throws itself out of two giant rocks into a high level Electromotive force of rocky waters, strong wave-tide colliding against itself, death claws in the very face of natural beauty! No man will survive a fall. What this rock represents remains a mystery, the complexity and puzzle in the message nature tries to communicate to us through it's aesthetics always have depth in meaning.  

Moreover, the depth of the mind can't be compared to that of the waters, our interpretation of reality is clearly relative. In those two rocks I saw a dual universe of a constant moral and cultural duel between life and death, good and evil, passion and negligence, actions and consequence...

A hill from which you can see the fall would easily signify the con of man attempting to creatively tussle the wit of nature, about two hundred and thirty four (234) steps into the valley of dark waters, a walk over the fatigue of career stress and busy office schedule. We didn't take the nature work probably because of the rainy season but we were told that we had to ensure safety first, so we had a lovely sight seeing of the nudity of the Kwa falls, a close look had undressed it's beauty as against a far gaze for all I had earlier seen was her garment in form of trees and green leaves.

"The origin of this river is traced to Cameroon", Kwa falls connects three rivers and leads a water track to the Atlantic ocean as explained by the curator, a boy whose father was a Rastafarian his long hair was another talking point of my tour experience. Our tour guide had asked us to come kitted in the future as we had allergic insect bites from "mutumutu" a local rigid fly and blood sucker. Two of the girls who wore short sleeves dresses and open backs had irritations from  the insect bites but they were all fine when we got home. We took lots of pictures to enable us keep memories and share our experiences on social media and I had learned something new, that nature always wants to interact with us, it might not speak in our language but there is a feeling it wishes to communicate to us; a feeling of pure joy, that of serenade and the most of it all, a feeling of inner peace. I communicated with nature at Kwa falls and that comes with these subtle and reflective spirit mixed with a perfect form of peace.

The Travel Tern Team