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gombe stream national park chimpanzees haven

Gombe Stream National Park is the smallest of Tanzania's national parks, but thanks to Dr. Jane Goodall, one of the best known. Gombe Stream National Park is situated beside Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania.

Gombe Stream National Park is about 16 km north of Kigoma Town and has an area of 52 sq. km. The park is within the Rift Valley.

Gombe Stream National Park is formed by a strip of land 16 km long, lying between the eastern shore of the lake and the peaks of the mountain range that form the Rift Escarpment.

Gombe Stream National Park is one of the few areas in Africa that offers haven for chimpanzee. Apart from the Mahale Mountains south of Kigoma, there is nowhere else in the country where chimpanzees can be observed in the wild.

Other primates  found in the park are baboons, red colobus monkeys and blue monkeys. Bushbucks, buffaloes and leopards including other mammals are also present in the park, and a famous waterfall called Kakombe.

Kigoma is a historical town. While visiting Gombe, one might spare some time to visit other places of interest such as Ujiji, the place where David Livingstone and Henry M. Stanley met in 1871.

Since 1960, Goodall and colleagues have lived among the Gombe chimpanzees, making significant contributions to the study of primates.

Travel to Gombe Stream National 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.

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