Tanzania





Gombe Stream National Park

 

Tanzania’s smallest national park is also one of its most famous, thanks to the pioneering chimpanzee research project initiated there by Jane Goodall in 1960 – now the world’s longest-running study of an individual wild animal population. Gombe Stream packs a fair altitudinal range in its 52 sq km, rising from the 773m shore of Lake Tanganyika to above 1,550m on the Rift Valley escarpment.

The well-wooded slopes of Gombe form a primate nirvana, supporting at least five species of monkey alongside a population of around 100 chimps, split between three communities. The park’s remoteness from the country’s main safari circuits means that it receives comparatively few visitors, but it’s a thoroughly rewarding excursion, offering the opportunity to track through lush tropical forest in search of the celebrity Kasekela chimp community, as habituated by Goodall in the 1960s.






Vegetation and habitats

Wildlife

Activities

Getting there

Where to stay
Nearby places of interest

 




Vegetation and habitats



 


 





Wildlife






Activities


 




Getting there







Where to stay






Nearby places of interest



Checklist of conspicuous and noteworthy mammals: bushbuck, common chimpanzee, olive baboon, blue monkey, red-tailed monkey, vervet monkey, red colobus.