Chimpanzee trekking in Gombe Streams National Park is one of the unique activities in Tanzania that travelers can get to experience, and come up-close with the chimpanzees, a primate species quite playful and noisy that you can hear them even while still a distance away from them. Gombe Stream National Park is one of the best places to see chimpanzees in the wild in East Africa, and indeed the best place to see chimpanzees in Tanzania. Gombe Stream National Park is located in the north of Kigoma town.
Gombe Stream National Park is located just near the shores of the second deepest lake in the world, Lake Tanganyika. Gombe Stream National Park is home to a variety of primate species in the miombo woodland and forests. Gombe Stream National Park gained more popularity due to the conservationist works of Dr. Jane Goodall in 1960 whilst she did her research on chimpanzees in East Africa and especially in Tanzania where she made her base in the park. due to her research, there a number of chimpanzee groups available for visiting by travelers with chimpanzee tracking adventures in Gombe Stream national Park, any time of the year, for an opportunity to come up close with the chimpanzees in their natural habitats.
Gombe Stream National Park is home to a variety of primates including a considerable population of chimpanzees among those that are fully habituated and can accommodate human interaction, as well as other primates including olive baboons, red-tailed monkey, diademed monkey, red colobus monkeys, as well as other animals like leopards, bushbucks, buffalo, waterbuck, barbet, palm-nut vulture, Forbes’ plover, Pere’s twin spot as well as the African Fish eagle among so many others.
Chimpanzee trekking in Gombe Stream National Park is an activity that includes walking through the forested park in search for the allocated chimpanzee family/group allocated. The chimpanzees in Gombe Stream national Park that travelers get to see are fully habituated and thus can be visited by tourists. Chimpanzee tracking in Gombe is done in the guidance of an experienced ranger guides.
Best time to do chimpanzee trekking in Gombe
The best time to do chimpanzee trekking in Gombe Stream national Park is during the dry season, which falls in the months of late May to October and late December through February, when the park is not so muddy and slippery that trekking is made more bearable. While chimpanzee trekking in Gombe can still be done on the rainy season as well which falls in the rest of the months, quality picture taking is not so good and access is quite hard as the trails are muddy and slippery from the rains received.
How to get to Gombe Stream national Park
Gombe Stream National Park can be accessed by taking scheduled or charter flights from Dar es Salaam, Arusha or Mwanza, to Kigoma Airport from where you can be picked to start the safari, including taking a ferry transfer through Lake Tanganyika to the park from where you shall enjoy chimpanzee trekking in Gombe adventure.
Accommodation in Gombe Stream National Park
There are a number of accommodation ion Gombe Stream national Park that travelers can enjoy while on a chimpanzee trekking in Gombe adventure. Accommodation in Gombe Stream National park range from budget, mid-range to luxury options. Some of the accommodation in Gombe Stream national Park include Mbali Mbali Gombe Lodge, Gombe Forest Lodge, Mlukoyoyo Guest House, Muzye Lodge, among so many others.
Other Activities in Gombe Stream National Park
Apart from the chimpanzee trekking in Gombe adventure, there are a number of other activities in Gombe Stream National park that travelers can get to enjoy while in the park. Other activities in Gombe Stream national Park include hiking, nature walks, bird watching, and snorkelling, among others.
Tanzania is an amazing safari destination that travelers can get to experience while on an Africa safari experience. Tanzania is a great destination for a classic game drive in the various Tanzania safari parks and reserves including Serengeti National park, Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire National Park and Lake Manyara National park in the northern safari circuit of Tanzania which is the most popular and thus crowded, while travelers after a bit of seclusion visit Nyerere National park and Mikumi National Park as well as Ruaha National Park for amazing classic game drives, with a possibility of combining with a chimpanzee trekking in Gombe adventure, or even a couple of days in Zanzibar Island.
