Travel Guide Mlola Forest

This coastal palm forest is classified as a reserve and runs along the northeast side of the island from Ras Mkundi Point to Mchangani Creek. There are only a few isolated farming villages here. The scenery is beautiful. The rare Syle's Monkey, an endemic monkey to the island, which exists on the African continent but in other subspecies forms, can be seen here. Inside the Mlola forest is a beautiful natural pool where locals bathe. The forest of Mlola is undergoing a worrying deforestation as almost half of the villagers living there subsist on the sale of charcoal.