Travel Blogs from Mole, Ghana

July 10 Day 10 Mole National Park to Ouagadougou,

A travel blog entry by annanddave

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We all got up early today to go on a Safari, with hopes of seeing elephants. Dave was lucky as he saw two elephants when he stepped out of his room.  They were quite a distance away and by the time he had cleared the humidity off of his camera lens, ...

Whack-A-Mole

A travel blog entry by danielwolfe

... that we, as people of relative means, could certainly afford to pay. And so off we went, crossing the northwestern part of Ghana in a blur, our brains jostled in their casings as the roads became progressively worse and worse, and as our driver, Samsonite ...

Mole, Mole, make elephant!

A travel blog entry by withmeryltomali

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... in the bush and apparently not often seen. If I can organise it I'm going to come back in March on my way back down to Ghana (although I won't bike it - I've got this thing about biking the same road twice - esp. if its difficult) and will try and spend ...

Tamale to Mole - the saga continues

A travel blog entry by kimber1974

... couple of the young kids running around the station and they were her guides for the day :) We started boarding the bus to Mole around 2PM and I shortly understood why the guide book says they only leave the station once "packed to the gills".  The ...

Different Story

A travel blog entry by phileasfarx

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... to the nearby towns of Larabanga and Tamale.  That’s it.  Okay, so much of the world comes to them, to their Mole National Park.  But to never have seen the sea?  Imagine that.  Never stood on a beach.  Never splashed ...

Day 57-Ghana, Mole National Park-Stealing Baboons

A travel blog entry by oliveramber

... ; Cute when they're small, damn ugly when they're big... actually that's a lie... damn ugly all the time.  We left Mole at 2 and drove back along the dusty dirty road for some 4 hours before pulling into the bush camp we had stopped off for lunch ...

B Faso, Ghana and Poorliness :-(

A travel blog entry by frusc101

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... - which I therefore sat with my cold water - as I endeavored to rehydrate after my exertions. An added bonus - and sign of Ghana's love affair with football - they even had live English football on the television - so I was quite happy there for a couple ...

Mole National Park, Ghana, November 24 - 25, 2007

A travel blog entry by modernnomad67

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... long drive, much of it on an unpaved side road, to Mole National Park, our destination for the night.  Mole National Park in northern Ghana is allegedly one of the best in West Africa in terms of size, protected status, and variety of wildlife, so ...

Mole National Park

A travel blog entry by borndriven

... I have been on an African Safari! We drove/four-wheeled for a little over eight hours today to get to Mole National Park, the pride and joy of Ghana National Parks. We had reserved rooms at the Mole Motel, the hotel inside the park and we were so ...

Dec 29, 2010

A travel blog entry by nikenkatrien

Festivities in the North

A travel blog entry by goldielocks

... our friends Bethan and Monique up in Tamale, with the aim to go to Larabanga on Christmas Eve and then to Mole National Park, the biggest in Ghana, on Christmas Day. Up in the North, the majority of the people are Muslim. Great for the Christmas season ...

Sleeping Under The Stars

A travel blog entry by chad1122

... ended up having to pay 40Cedi for the ride back which was kind of disappointing. We decided that we would spend the night not at the Mole Hotel but under the stars in the tree hide in the park away from the hotel. So we paid for the nights stay in the ...

Take a Walk on the Wild Side

A travel blog entry by starfish

... Park (pronounced moh-lay, not like the little creature that digs up your lawn) is the largest protected area in Ghana, a huge swathe of Guinean forest-savanna mosaic habitat, set aside initially as a hunting reserve, following a game clearance programme ...

Mole Visit

A travel blog entry by susanes

... further into the park where we can't see them.  I am going to talk to my professor about other preserves/parks in Ghana, so I'll have another adventure in a different part of the country instead. I am now more than halfway done with this "trip", and ...

Mole National Park

A travel blog entry by vincact

... ;What to do in Mole National Park: Es könnte schlechtere Wege geben, als den Tag auf der Viewing Platform des Mole Hotels zuzubringen, ein kaltes Bier in der Hand, den Swimmingpool 2 Schritte entfernt und zwei gut einsehbare Wasserlöcher direkt voraus. ...