Our three nights in Mole National Park
are already over. We have seen so many different things and animals, time
passed quickly. One of the highlights was the guided tour through Mognori Eco Village
– a great place to experience how the locals live. Not so to our liking was the
canoe tour afterwards, but maybe that was due to the fact that the river was
very dark after the rain, and definitely because there were some Tse Tse Flies.
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| Barbara during our guided tour. It was really hot! |
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| The canoe safari |
This morning we went “buffalo hunting”. It seems to be very
new that you are allowed to drive through the park in your own vehicle, but you
have to have an armed guide with you. That’s what we did. A nice drive, many
kob and waterbuck, loads of Tse Tse Flies every time we opened the window to
snap a photo. Grrrrr. Horrible. Then: Buffaloes – the ranger made us jump out
of the car and follow him through the bush, hunting the buffaloes, being hunted
by Tse Tse. Honestly – I did see some furs from a distance, but to me that
could have been any animal….But the ranger really wanted us to see buffaloes,
he tried…
And you know what? When we
returned to the hotel after our long drive: the “normal” guided safari tour
group told us they (!) had seen buffaloes (probably the ones we saw from far).
Anyway, we did enjoy our stay in Mole NP. Even without seeing buffaloes.
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| Waterbuck |
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| Kob |
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| A make-shift petrol station... |
More to come,
Cynthia
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