Gombe Stream National Park is the smallest of Tanzania’s national parks, but thanks to Dr. Jane Goodall, one of the best known. Since 1960, Dr. Goodall and colleagues have lived among the Gombe chimpanzees, making significant contributions to the study of primates.

Travel to the Park is by water only from Ujiji or Kigoma. The forests are alive with the famous chimpanzee, red colobus and red-tail and blue monkeys. You can also spot bushbuck and bushpig and grey duiker.

The lake shore is home to the pied and giant kingfishers, the crowned eagle, the African broadbill, Ross’s turaco and the trumpeter hornbill.

Activities

• Kigoma: Water sports, Town tours, Dr Livingstone Memorial, Katonga cultural fishing village, local market visit, tourist class hotels
• Gombe stream National Park: Chimpanzee safaris, treks and walks, relaxation, boat safaris. Accommodation in luxury tented camps.

Features

Lake shore, forested strip of chimpanzee habitat straddling the steep slopes that hem in the sandy northern shore of Lake Tanganyika. The early pioneering work of Jane Goodall, who in 1960 founded the chimpanzee behavioral research program.

Best time to visit

Year-round