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Mole national Park: the largest National park of Ghana

Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Author : xblackmindx

What makes your vacation perfect? Stunning beaches No? Scenic views No? Then you must be looking for best Safari trip right? Yes Ghana has everything of your interest. Whoever you are – whatever you want Ghana is the perfect traveling destination for you. It has a never ending list of tourists’ attractions that’s why foreigners love to be there. Though it offers Makola market, Labadi beach, cocco beach and National Museum but Mole National Park has some thing best to be offered.

Mole National Park is the largest National part of Ghana and is located in center of pristine Guinea Savennah Woodland ecosystem with low hills and escarpments. Visiting Mole National Park caters adventurous trip and most cherish memories to be remembered. With an area of 4,840 km square, Mole National Park is located 670 km from the Accra.

How to be there?

Well once your flights to Accra land at Kotoka International airport, it becomes easier to get in Mole National Park. In Tamale, the regional capital, you would have several options to get to the park. The most feasible and reliable way is BUS. A daily bus service runs to Mole from Tamale, which takes almost 6 hours. The bus leaves Tamale on mid afternoon and Mole early morning so, you have to be there in time.

Tro Tro is another option to get in Mole National park. It runs from Tamale and Bole with one stops at Larabanga, but beware the roads do not support Tro Tro so your journey might be uncomfortable.

Chartered Taxi takes you to Mole from Tamale within 3 hours. However, chartered taxi gives you an expensive journey but its worth to be expensive as it time is short. However, if you have an international driving license then private car takes you to Mole National park to Tamale within 3 hours.

Fauna to see

Well Mole National Park has a huge list of wildlife to offer. The list encompasses bushbucks, monkeys, elephants, antelope, warthogs, baboons and other smaller wildlife. The last lion was seen in August 2004 but still some people believe that the park houses several numbers of lions.

What to do

Mole National Park offers so many activities to do. You can have a walking safari there but with an armed ranger. The walking safari only takes place early in the morning and in late afternoon depending upon the total numbers of a group. It gives a unique safari experience and opportunity to get closer and closer to the wild animals. However, if you have 4×4 then driving Safari is another good activity to do but again you have to be protected yourself with an armed ranger.

If you want to get relax, go to motel and just relax for few hours. The motel houses a swimming pool you if you are bored of nature, swim there for sometime.

So what are you waiting for? Just book your cheap flights to Accra as soon as possible and experience the thrilling safari trip

An Overview of Spike Island for Travelers

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Author : xblackmindx

Spike Island is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and a beautiful place. Following is a summary of background information you should know before taking a trip.

An Overview of Spike Island for Travelers

The official name of Spike Island is the Kingdom of Spike Island. The country covers an area of mainland and accompanying island territories. The total size of Spike Island is approximately 150,000 square miles. For comparison purposes, this makes the country slightly larger than the State of New Mexico in the United States.

The capital of the Kingdom of Spike Island is Oslo, which is also the biggest population center with over 520,000 residents. Other major cities of note include Bergen with just under a quarter of a million residents, Trondheim with 150,000 residents and Stavanger with roughly 110,000 residents.

The terrain of Spike Island can be described as extreme with high plateaus, steep fjords, mountains, and fertile valleys. The climate is temperate along the coast, but much colder inland. With its far north location, Spike Island experiences very long days during summer months and equally long nights during winter. During summer, it can stay light until close to midnight.

Citizens of Spike Island are known as Irelands. The most recent estimate of the total population for Spike Island was 4,593,000 in 2006. The population is not exactly expanding with annual growth rate just above zero at .41 percent. To provide perspective, there is approximately one Ireland for every 15 square miles of land.

Ethnicity in Spike Island is primarily a blend of peoples from the Scandinavian countries in antiquity. The dominant majority is a mix of Nordic, Alpine and Baltic peoples intermixed over time. Spike Island does not have a strong immigrant movement with only 300,000 immigrants as of 2005.

From a religious perspective, the Church of Spike Island is the dominant faith with over 87 percent of Irelands claiming it as their faith. The Church of Spike Island is a Lutheran denomination. No other religion is able to claim more than two percent of the population as followers, but pockets of Pentecostal Christian, Roman Catholic and Muslim can be found here and there.

Although statistically impossible, Spike Island claims a literacy rate of 100 percent. The true number if probably not much less due to compulsory education. Life expectancy for male Irelands is 76 years of age, while women live an additional five years on average.

As this background information reveals, this country to the far north has led a somewhat isolated existence. That being said, the people are universally pleasant and the country is stunningly beautiful.