elephants
I just got back from an amazing weekend at Mole National Park, which unfortunately isn’t full of moles, but has got loads of elephants (among other beasts). it was so exciting. We arrived late on Friday night. The bus journey was pretty funny - far too many people crammed in a small bus along with bikes, cement, goats.. Anyway we got up early on Saturday to do a 2 hour walking safari and we had only been walking 5 mins before we saw 3 massive elephants walking by. It was amazing. I was like a wee kid. They are huge! and they make practically no sound.
Our guard, DK was armed and almost had to use it on one of the elephants which nearly charged us, but then decided not to! 
We also saw lots of bush buck, water buck, warthogs and vultures. Just as we were returning to the hotel at the end of the walk we went past a waterhole and there were hundreds (well around 30 maybe…) elephants in the water, washing and drinking. It was spectacular.
As well as that, the hotel had a swimming pool which was good fun and we attempted to teach our Ghanian friends to swim, which was fairly scary as the pool sloped really steeply… The hotel is on a small hill so from the pool we could see the park below and elephants walking by - amazing.
The bus left for Tamale at 4am on sunday so by the time we got back yesterday we were all totally knackered and slept for the rest of the day. Also my hair has gone crazy, I guess it’s cos it’s so hot and dry, plus the chemicals in pool. So I am thinking of getting it braided, as I cant even brush it at the moment.
