Gombe is the smallest of Tanzania's national parks: a fragile strip of chimpanzee habitat straddling the
steep slopes and river valleys that hem in the sandy northern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Its chimpanzees
– habituated to human visitors – were made famous by the pioneering work of Jane Goodall, who in 1960
founded a behavioural research program that now stands as the longest-running study of its kind in the
world. The matriarch Fifi, the last surviving member of the original community, only three-years old
when Goodall first set foot in Gombe, is still regularly seen by visitors.
Chimpanzees share about 98% of their genes with humans, and no scientific expertise is required to
distinguish between the individual repertoires of pants, hoots and screams that define the celebrities,
the powerbrokers, and the supporting characters. Perhaps you will see a flicker of understanding when
you look into a chimp's eyes, assessing you in return - a look of apparent recognition across the
narrowest of species barriers.
Size: 52 sq km (20 sq miles), Tanzania's smallest park. Location: 16 km (10 miles) north of Kigoma on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania.
Chimpanzee trekking; hiking, swimming and snorkelling; visit the site of Henry Stanley's famous “Dr Livingstone I presume” at Ujiji near Kigoma, and watch the renowned dhow builders at work. .
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