Lake Chala Day Trip: Explore Africa's Deepest Inland Water Body

Moshi Urban

Embark on a thrilling Lake Chala Day Trip and discover Africa’s deepest inland water body. Explore the stunning Lake Chala Safari Camp and witness its crystal-clear waters and abundant wildlife.

Duration: 7 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Lake Chala - The Lake Chala Day Trip offers an ideal opportunity to relax and rejuvenate. Visitors can choose to hike through the picturesque countryside surrounding the lake, swim in its clear waters, or kayak across the border into Kenya. Enjoy a wonderful day at Lake Chala in Tanzania.

What's Included

Lunch
All Fees and Taxes

What's Not Included

Guides Tips
Kayak (available for hire)

Additional Information

Lake Chala Safari Camp is a scenic private game reserve that’s perched on the edge of Lake Chala, the deepest inland water body in Africa, with a depth exceeding 3000m. As part of the experience, our guide will escort you to the lakeside through an expanse of lush flora leading way to the enchanting blue lake. Its pristine waters nurture a plethora of…

Location

Coffee Union Cafe

Arusha Road

We will pick you at union coffee after communicating with KLM Safaris office

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Ryan_d

Jul 28, 2025

Great views, beautiful water - It’s a bit of a drive to Lake Chala, but worth it. Lake Chala is beautiful, and has some good, easy hikes around it. We did a hike one way to the top of one part of a crater where you can step into Kenya and back into Tanzania, which was cool. The we did a hike below to the water table where you can admire the views, kayak, or swim. If I had more time and brought swimming gear, I would have swam probably. Overall, great, easy tour I would recommend if you had half a day.

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Lalashm

Sep 15, 2023

Lake Chala - great daytrip! - I really enjoyed the trip. The lake and its surroundings are diverse and beautiful and absolutly not crowded. The staff was actually on time for my pick up (which is rare here in Tanzania😅). Also they let me freely decide how to spend the day (which hike/activities, how much time to spend where, etc.) All in all they were very friendly and did their best to make me feel comfortable. I would really recommend this trip, because (compared to other trips I did with other companies) this trip was well organized, not that expensive (even though I was alone on the trip) and the car was in good condition.

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Noemi

Sep 2, 2023

Daytrip Lake Chala - The guide was very friendly and he picked us up at time at our hostel. He was very friendly and he told us some interesting stories about Lake Chala.

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42susannr

Feb 2, 2020

1-day trip to Lake Chala with KLM Safari - I went to Lake Chala with KLM safari in January 2020. I had an awesome day. Elly the guide picked me up at my hostel in the morning. We had a 2,5 h drive to get to the lake. The roads until Himo had been really good. There after the roads got more worse, but he is a real good driver. On the lake we had a 30 min walk to get to the water. It was awesome walk to get there and the water is amazing, clean and blue. We had some time to relax there and had some nice conversation. Thereafter we went to the viewing point and had our lunch. We had been back in Moshi around 4:30 pm. I enjoyed the trip very much and do really really recommend Lake Chala.

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From $95

up to 12 guests

1 - Adult