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grets Says: If all this walking, bid spotting and safari-ing is making you tired, how about lazing around the pool for a couple of hours with a good book. Most game walks are early morning and late afternoon (that is when the animals are most active), so you usually have the rest of the...
grets Says: A very rewarding pastime at Mole National Park, is to spend some time just watching the comings and goings at the waterhole. We spent a couple of hours with binoculars, keeping an eye on the crocodiles that were keeping an eye on the antelopes. Two elephants appeared and...
grets Says: One of the most popular activities in Mole National Park, is a walking safari. These take place early morning (usually leaving the lodge around 06:00, just as the sun is rising; and around 15:30 or so in the evening, ensuring you return by sunset). You are accompanied by an...
grets Says: There is a fabulous raised viewing platform across the waterhole from the hotel. As far as I know, it is only accessible by foot. It is wonderful peaceful to spend some time just sitting there (bench seats are provided), gazing out over the water. We spotted elephants in the...
Mole Motel: Patience is a virtue
grets Says: The restaurant at the Mole Motel is the only place to eat if you stay there. Make sure you bring plenty of patience when waiting for your food. The first night we arrived quite late, and ordered our food around 19:00. They didn’t have any of the main local dishes on the...
Pieter11 Says: You can order your drinks at the Restaurant, but if you want to save more then half of your money on drinks, you shouls go to the Rangers Canteen, opposite the starting point of the safari's. You can just take away you drinks here and drink them at the restaurants tables, as...
Mole Motel: Watching the sunset
grets Says: As you can imagine, the nightlife of Mole National Park is pretty non-existent. Once you have had your sundowner sitting by the swimming pool or on the viewing platform, watching the big red ball disappearing through the misty sky behind the trees on the horizon, there is...
Pieter11 Says: The fastest and easiest way to get to Mole N.P. is to get the Metro Mass bus from the central tro-tro station in Tamale. This bus goes directly to Mole, with only a few stops on the way.But: The road to Mole is very bad, especially in the raining season. The bus is not...
Take a taxi from Tamale to Mole
atufft Says: According to the Lonely Plant guide, we took a bus from Kumasi to Tamale, with the expectation that we might be able to catch the last bus to Mole. Not surprisingly, we learned that the bus had been broken down for several days, and so we began to look for other options. As...
grets Says: Women in nearly all the rural areas, as well as many urban cities, carry a huge bowl like this as their ‘handbag’. It can hold anything and everything – vegetables or meat bought in the market, water from the well, firewood, washing for the river ‘laundry’, good to be sold...
grets Says: It is common in many parts of West Africa, not just in Mole National Park, for the villagers to burn away part of the undergrowth to encourage the regeneration of new life. This helps in the feeding of wild and domestic animals. We came across huge flames in places, but here...
grets Says: If you decide to take a 4-wheel drive safari into Mole National Park, beware that the roads are not sealed. They can be very uneven at times, bumpy and uncomfortable, especially if you are travelling on the roof-rack of the vehicle like we did. Hold on for your life!
grets Says: Don’t get too close to the elephants! This may be what you came to see, but don’t forget that these are wild animals, you are not in a zoo! Elephants can be dangerous if provoked! The ‘rules’ say that you should stay at least 50 metres away from any wild animal, but I will...
grets Says: Tourists are not allowed to enter the park on foot without being accompanied by an armed ranger. They give you a certain sense of security, but are also useful of course in knowing where to spot animals, how to track moving animals, lots of information about the animals you...
grets Says: It is best to pack your stuff in soft bags or rucksacks for travelling on buses (public or chartered) or private car. Make sure they are lockable. Walking shoes or boots. Warmer windproof jacket for the evening. Insect repellant. Malaria Prophylaxis. All the toiletries and...
atufft Says: Pack your camera in a padded backpack. Don't use a fancy logo covered camera bag though. Keep things simple and discrete. I use a Panasonic DMC FZ10 which has a Leica zoom telephoto lens that's very compact. Film cameras are generally a hassle in Africa because the heat...
Walk down to the watering hole and beyond.
atufft Says: When I hiked with the guide in the afternoon, we were able to cover more ground than was possible with the girls in the morning. I observed the strange to and fro rumbling herds of buffalo, as well as a number of antelope species.
grets Says: The warthog is basically a wild pig, and are named for the four wart-like tusks on either side of their mouths. These are used for defense during fighting. Warthogs are found in groups ranging from three to ten animals, and a group of warthogs is called a sounder (that was a...
grets Says: Similar to ants, and sometimes known as white ants, termites actually belong to the order of isoptera. They are not related to ants at all, and are soften, paler in colour and much slower moving. Termites generally feed on dead plant material, usually in the form of wood,...
grets Says: The grounds of the hotel are full of little lizards in every size, shape or form. Most of them are quite shy and will run off as soon as you get anywhere near them. Some will hang around long enough for you to photograph them though. Lizards are always good to have around as...
Plan a Mole National Park vacation with reviews, tips and photos posted by real travelers and Mole National Park locals
Mole Hotel is perched on a hill that overlooks a lake where animals frequent. We were able to get a drink and watch the animals during mid-day. The hotel has an...
Q: Hi We are trying to contact the Mole Motel/Hotel. We are using the number from Lonely Planet 22045 > 233 7 22045. But we only get...
A: I found this number on 4booking.com: +233 (0) 7 12563 Might be worth trying.
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Mole National Park is one of Ghana’s main tourist attraction, and quite rightly so. Although it doesn’t have the same concentration of big game as its counterparts in Kenya or Tanzania, Mole offers......
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The largest of Ghana's National Parks with a size of 4840 square km. Mole National Park is situated in the heart of the Guinea savannah woodland ecosystem. A total of 600km of game protection and...
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Mole is an ecosystem that supports wild Elephants
Normally, West Africa is not the destination for safari seeking tourists as the game have become relatively scarce. The depletion of game is not comparable to the rank absence in Europe and the United...
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Mole N.P., where the Ghanaian elephants live...
Mole National Park is not the most visited, but definitely the most special park in Ghana. It has been established in 1958 and it keeps almost 400 different species of animals in an area of 4840 km2....
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170 km west of Tamale in the West Gonja District is this park. it is for real adventurous visitors. Uncounted lions, leopards, hyenas and various primates can also be seen in Mole. A total of 600km of...
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