Nigerian professionals are undoubtedly among the most hardworking people in the world. Many of them perform their daily tasks under very tense conditions. The long hours spent in traffic, the information technology and telecommunication challenges, the stringent deadlines and the infrastructural deficiencies are some of the odds that make the lives of professionals hectic. The irony however is that few professionals take time to reverse the toll of this hectic lifestyle.

Please find some helpful tips for vacationing below:

• Stay out of contact with the office. Let your vacation be a real vacation. If you are electronically hooked to the office, you are not on a vacation. You are still going to be under the stress that comes with working.
• Spend time with significant others. If your relationships with the significant people in your life-spouses, children, parents etc. –are dysfunctional, your productivity will be retarded. Vacations can be used as bonding time. So plan your vacation for a period when you can haul along the people that matter or visit them, whatever the case may be.
• Carry a camera along. Take countless pictures of yourself and your significant others. The candid memories from the trip(s) will be psychologically beneficial when you get back to work. They can also persuade you to keep taking vacations. 
• Change your environment. Leave the city you work in. A physical change of location can be a stress reliever. Just being out of your familiar territory can help you tune out of that work mind-set. Visiting friends or relatives out of town and visiting out of town resorts are possible means of escaping your familiar terrain.

Below are six recommended vacationing spots in Nigeria.

1. Obudu Cattle Ranch Resort
2. Kainji Dam Games Reserve 
3. Idanre Hills
4. Ikogosi Warm and Cold Water Springs
5. Erin Ijesha Waterfalls
6. Yankari Games Reserve