Mahale Mountains National Park
Mahale Mountains National Park
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- Spend Quality Time With Your Loved Ones.
- Great for First Time Adventurers
- Make Memories For Life Time.
Mahale Mountains National Park lies on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Kigoma region Tanzania. Its named after the Mahale Mountains range that is within its borders, the park has got many un usual features. First its one of only two protected areas for chimpanzees in the country. The chimp’s population in Mahale Mountains National park is the largest known and due to its size and remoteness, the chimpanzee’s curlicue. It’s the only place where chimpanzees and lions co-exist. The other unusual feature of the park is that it’s one of the very few in Africa that is experienced by foot. There are no roads or other infrastructure with in the park boundaries, and the only way in and out of the park is via boat on the Lake.
The Mahale Mountains were inhabited by the Batongwe and Holoholo people, with populations in 1987 of 22,500 respectively. When the Mahale mountains wildlife Research Centre was established in 1979 and these people were expelled from the mountains to make way for the park, which opened in 1985. The people had been highly attuned to the natural environment, living with Virtually no impact on the ecology.
