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Gombe Stream National Park, located on the western border of Tanzania and the Congo, is most famous for Jane Goodall, the resident primatologist who spent many years in its forests studying the behaviour of the endangered chimpanzees. Size: 52 sq km (20 sq miles), Tanzania’s smallest national park. Location: 16 km (10 miles) north of Kigoma on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania. Kigoma is connected to Dar, Mwanza and Arusha by scheduled flights. From Kigoma local lake-taxis take up to three hours to reach Gombe, or motorboats can be chartered, taking less than one hour.
Gombe Stream’s main attraction is obviously the chimpanzee families that live protected in the park’s boundaries. Guided walks are available that take visitors deep into the forest to observe and sit with the extraordinary primates for an entire morning — an incredible experience and one that is the highlight of many visitors’ trips to Africa. Besides chimpanzee viewing, many other species of primates live in Gombe Stream’s tropical forests. Vervet and colobus monkeys, baboons, forest pigs and small antelopes inhabit the dense forest, in addition to a wide variety of tropical birdlife.