Скачать или смотреть The Mahale Mountains … magical, majestic, magnificent and more!

Abundant adjectives and alliteration aside, the Mahale mountains are truly remote … 1500 sq km (the size of Kenya’s Maasai Mara) with only 24 tourist beds in 2 small camps. Most guests coming here would fly in by private charter to an airstrip just outside the park (rather than spend 2 days on the road as we did) and then take a motorised dhow to their camp. We were staying at Mbali Mbali, meaning ‘far, far away’ (which it is), a lovely tented lodge which we had to ourselves for 2 of our 3 nights there.

The location is stunning. Set on a beach, with the turquoise waters of Lake Tanganyika lapping up against the platform of our luxurious tent to the front and behind us, the mountains rise up, covered in thick, verdant jungle. The primary reason for visiting the area is chimpanzees and the park is home to approximately 700 of them. Of these, the 72-strong ‘M’ group has been studied by researchers since 1960 and is now completely habituated to human presence.

We were lucky enough to spend 3 days with chimpanzees in 2 different locations in Tanzania and it is a truly humbling experience to come face to face with our closest relatives.

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