We were surrounded by moles. They advanced, teeth bared, snarling, Eric screamed..... You've probably guessed that Mole was not a park dedicated to our scurrying underground cousins, instead it was a brilliant park filled with elephants, antelopes, monkeys, baboons, warthogs and irridescent birds. We stayed at the Mole ('mole-ay') Motel. This was a fascinating place. It is perched on a cliff above a primeval savannah landscape that disappears vastly over the horizon. Directly at the base of the cliff are two watering holes, at which all the many creatures gather. One morning, 15 elephants went for a swim in one of the pools for a couple of hours. They were platfully dunking one another and clashing their tusks. What a sight! All the animals come wandering through the hotel grounds; there are constant streams of warthogs
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