Category: Mahale

Mahale offers chimpanzee portraits in low forest light, mountains rising from a lake shoreline, white sand beaches, sunsets west across open water, night fishing lamps, and underwater cichlids, all shot on foot or from a boat since the park has…

Pack for Mahale as you would for a humid forest trek and a beach holiday at once: broken-in boots with real grip, long trousers and sleeves, a rain shell, swimwear, and everything in a soft bag to meet light aircraft…

The best time to see chimpanzees in Mahale is August to October, at the end of the dry season, when the habituated M group ranges on the lower slopes close to the lakeshore camps and sightings are most frequent and…

The best hiking routes in Mahale are the Mount Nkungwe climb to roughly 2,462 metres, the chimpanzee trekking trails on the western slopes around Kansyana, the shorter stream valley walks from the camp beaches, and waterfall routes in the gullies.…

Chimpanzees in Mahale are found on the forested western slopes of the mountain range, within the home range of the habituated M group around the Kansyana research area, at altitudes between the lakeshore and roughly 1,800 metres depending on the…

Mahale Mountains National Park is in far western Tanzania, on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika in the Uvinza District of the Kigoma Region, roughly 130 kilometres south of Kigoma town. Visitors reach it by light aircraft or boat on…

Accommodation in Mahale comes down to two lakeside camps and a set of simple park bandas and campsites, all reached by boat since the park has no roads. Guests on a Mahale chimpanzee trekking safari stay at Greystoke Mahale or…

The animals you are most likely to see in Mahale are yellow baboons on the beaches, red-tailed and blue monkeys in the canopy, red colobus in the valley forest, African fish eagles along the shoreline, and the habituated M group…

The beaches you can visit along Lake Tanganyika in Mahale are the camp beaches at Kangwena and the neighbouring lodge shoreline, plus a string of small sand coves between rocky headlands reached by boat, and the beaches at park headquarters.…

Mahale has no fixed, named chimpanzee trekking routes. Instead, guides use a network of research trails radiating from the Kansyana area and the lakeshore camps, choosing a line each morning based on where the M group nested the previous night.…