Mole

This is a guess, but I don’t there are many game reserves where you can get two nights bed and breakfast, two evening meals, a few beers, park fees and a two hour guided walk across the park for about $50. Mole (mo-lay) National Park, Ghana’s most important reserve is never going to compete with Kenya or South Africa as a destination for seeing wildlife. The journey to Mole is an invigorating experience. A couple of hours spent in a Metrobus rattling along a ridged, sun dried mud track (worse in the rainy season) is not to everybody’s taste. The Mole Motel is nearly fifty years old and in a need of major overhaul, but it is well staffed, has a pool, good food and great views of two waterholes. The range of wildlife you are likely to see is small but we saw elephants at close quarters and later watched them bathe in the waterhole. We saw green monkeys, bush buck, kop and baboons. Warthogs kept turning up all over the motel.

The new minister responsible for tourism has said that she is looking for ways to increase the numbers of tourists coming to Ghana. There have been plans to upgrade Mole Motel for some time and even talk of flying in tourists. With a sensitive upgrade and improved road connection more people could be attracted and most would be happy to pay a lot more than $50 for the experience.