The Obudu Plateau is spread over an area of over 40 square miles (100 km2) and rises to about 5,200 ft (1,584 metres) above sea level.

[1] The plateau is a giant massif in its own right, and its peak reaches a height of about 1,716 metres (5,630 ft) above sea level.

[3] The Sankwala mountain ranges were first explored in 1949 by McCaughley, a Scottish rancher who camped out in the mountains for a month, before returning with Hugh Jones – a fellow rancher who, in 1951, together with Crawfeild developed a cattle ranch on the plateau known as the Obudu Cattle Ranch.

Although the ranch has been through troubles since, it has very recently been rehabilitated to its former glory by the South African Protea hotel chain.

[4] A cable car transport network takes visitors from the foot of the mountain to the top of the plateau.