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Gombe National Park, Western Tanzania
Gombe Stream National Park offers some fantastic chimpanzee tracking located on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. This park provides visitors with a unique opportunity to witness these incredible primates in their natural habitat, being conserved and protected to sustain their fragile existence.
The pioneering work of Dr. Jane Goodall made it famous, who in 1960 founded a behavioral research program that now stands as the longest-running study of its kind in the world. Gazetted as a game reserve in 1943, it was not until Goodall’s research began that it became a national park in 1968. Bordered by Lake Tanganyika to the west and the high rift escarpment to the east, it has become a small isolated ecosystem and prime chimpanzee habitat.
Activities in Gombe Stream National Park
Gombe Stream’s main attraction is obviously the chimpanzee families that live protected within the park’s boundaries. Besides chimpanzees, primates inhabiting Gombe Stream include beachcomber olive baboons, red colobus, red-tailed monkeys, blue monkeys, and vervet monkeys. Red-tailed monkeys and blue monkeys have also been known to hybridize in the area.
Birdwatchers will be particularly fascinated by the park, whose forest offers a cross-section of East African grassland birds and West African forest species. Over 200 species of birds call the park home.
Gombe National Park is best visited during the long dry season, which stretches from Jun to October.
