Best time to visit Mahale National park for Chimpanzee safari

From around the mid of may to mid November, Mahale national park experiences a dry season which however changes to long rains between July and February. Long rains being form around mid February tapering off by mid may. This however does not make Mohale not accessible. It remains accessible throughout the year, despite the above information that describes its whether patterns.

Getting to Mahale National Park
Two main ways are normally used to reach Mahale National Park. The first one and more over the faster one takes an average of three hours and that is by flying from Kar es Salaam to Kigoma, while the other one takes at least two days to reach Kigoma and that is by rail. From Kigoma, Travel to Tanzania guests will then travel within southern Tanzania using the speed boat that takes approximately 3½ hours and through out this journey he or she will be enjoying the fishing villages as well as other beautiful mountainous regions. This makes the speed boat- ride a wonderful one and even still, time tend to more fast as the guest keep onlying back and gazing at the superts pananomic views of south western Tanzania. It is important still to note that in the past standard boats could take up to 10 hours, hence the shortening of the hours at the moment, proves a great improvement in the speed boat. Meanwhile the journey are usually during a calm morning when the winds are still little.

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