Mole National Park covers a large savannah filled with African elephants, buffalos, baboons, warthogs, and kob antelopes.

The park is a home to almost 90 mammal species and at least 300 bird species. 734 species of flower plants, 56 butterfly species, and enough bird species to attract avid birders, 300 species, including the white-backed vulture and Senegal parrot. Between December and April is the best time for elephant sightings, though you’re guaranteed to see plenty of mammals’ year round.

The park allows walking and driving in the safaris and you can rent a park vehicle if you don’t have your own.

Mole National Park offers what must surely be the cheapest safaris in Africa and is the Ghana's largest wildlife refuge where you see the animals and even touch them.



Mole National Park is located in northwest Ghana, about 90 miles from the major city of Tamale. The grounds are still fairly undeveloped and untouristed due to the park’s remote location, which makes it feel like you are truly wandering around the animals’ backyard. 

The park was established in 1964, though the land was first set aside as a game reserve in 1958, a year after Ghana’s independence from Britain. The park spans about 3,000 square miles, fed by the seasonal Lovi and Mole rivers. 

There are motel and swimming pool that can be seeing from a cliffside out across the savanna woodland, you can watch herds of elephants meandering by the water holes below.

However, because of the few dozen villages located near the park boundaries, subsistence hunting continues to pose a problem for preserving the wildlife. What’s more, the elephants’ former migration route into southern Burkina Faso has been obstructed by human settlement, and seemingly less frequented as a result.