Category: Mahale

Mahale's main habitats are lowland and riverine rainforest along the lakeshore, montane forest on the middle slopes, alpine bamboo higher up, montane grassland above roughly 2,300 metres, miombo woodland on the drier eastern flank, and the waters of Lake Tanganyika…

Chimpanzee trekking in Mahale National Park is a guided walk into mountain rainforest to spend one hour with the habituated M group, starting early from the lakeside camps and lasting anywhere from forty minutes to most of a day. Groups…

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…