Category: Mahale

Lake sunset panoramas at Mahale Mountains National Park are watched from beach camps, boat cruises and mountain ridges facing west across Lake Tanganyika, with the sun dropping towards the Congolese shore roughly forty kilometres out. Camps run sunset boat cruises…

Dhow and boat transfers in Mahale National Park are how everyone arrives and moves along the shoreline, since the park has no roads, with camp boats running around ninety minutes from the nearest airstrip and traditional dhows used for sailing…

Swimming in Lake Tanganyika at Mahale National Park happens straight off the camp beaches in fresh water sitting near 25 degrees Celsius year round, and is part of daily life at the lakeside camps rather than a bookable activity. Guests…

Forest primate spotting in Mahale National Park means finding the eight or nine species that share the forest with the chimpanzees, on guided walks through the valley gullies behind the camp beaches, with red colobus, red-tailed monkeys, blue monkeys and…

Lake Tanganyika is the world's longest freshwater lake and the second deepest after Baikal, running about 673 kilometres north to south and reaching 1,470 metres down, and it forms the western edge of Mahale Mountains National Park in Tanzania. Visitors…

The forested valleys and streams of Mahale Mountains National Park are the corridors visitors walk on guided forest walks and chimpanzee trekking safaris, running from the beaches on Lake Tanganyika up into montane forest. Camps offer these walks daily as…

Mahale Mountains hiking covers everything from two hour stream valley walks off the beach to the two or three day Mount Nkungwe climb, all guided and all accompanied by an armed ranger, in a park where walking is the only…

Guided forest walks in Mahale National Park are two to three hour walks inland from the camp beaches along stream valleys, accompanied by a guide and an armed ranger, and normally included in the inclusive camp rate. They suit anyone…

Mount Nkungwe is the highest point in Mahale Mountains National Park, rising to roughly 2,462 metres and climbed as a two or three day trekking expedition with an armed park ranger and overnight camping. Trekkers start near Kansyana or park…

Chimpanzee trekking in Mahale is physically demanding, rated among the more strenuous primate walks in Africa, with treks running from around forty minutes to most of a day on steep, humid, often trackless forest slopes. A Mahale chimpanzee trekking safari…