Category: Mahale

You get to Mahale Mountains National Park by light aircraft or by boat, never by road, with the two main options being a scheduled charter from Arusha to an airstrip near the park boundary or a commercial flight to Kigoma…

Sunset boat cruises in Mahale National Park run in the late afternoon along the Lake Tanganyika shoreline, facing west into open water towards the Congolese shore, and are normally included in the lakeside camp rates. Sunset falls around six thirty…

The best time to visit Mahale Mountains National Park is the dry season from June to October, with August through October the strongest window for chimpanzee trekking safaris because the apes range on the lower slopes near the lakeshore. Most…

The Kansyana research area is the base of the long-running chimpanzee study in Mahale Mountains National Park and the home range of the M group, the habituated community that visitors track on a Mahale chimpanzee trekking safari. Trekking parties leave…

The Mahale mountain range is a chain of forested peaks running northwest to southeast through Mahale Mountains National Park in western Tanzania, topping out at Mount Nkungwe at around 2,462 metres and dropping straight into Lake Tanganyika along its western…