One of the smallest national parks in Tanzania, Gombe lies in the far west of the country near the shores of Lake Tanganyika. It encompasses steep valleys blanketed in grasslands and tropical rainforest that were famously the setting for Jane Goodall’s pioneering research into chimpanzee behaviour.

Aside from its exceptional chimpanzee sightings, the park also hosts healthy populations of vervet, blue and red-tailed monkeys, not to mention olive bamboos and red colobus. The occasional leopard and hippos can also be seen but it’s really the primate encounters that make walking safaris in Gombe National Park so thrilling.

Listen to their calls ringing through the trees above and watch as male chimpanzees try to assert their dominance. Around 200 different bird species have also been recorded in the forests of Gombe National Park while up to 100 kinds of colourful cichlids can be seen while snorkelling in the waters of Lake Tanganyika.

Come face-to-face with chimpanzees during one of our private safaris in Tanzania to Gombe National Park.