The smallest national park in Tanzania, a strip of forest on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, and the place Jane Goodall spent fifty years studying chimpanzees. The troops here are habituated to a degree found almost nowhere else, which means close, unhurried time with them on foot.
Every one of these is something we run here, not a stock list.
We do not have a scheduled itinerary for Gombe National Park on the site right now, which does not mean we cannot take you. We build private trips to order across Tanzania — tell us your dates and we will put a route and a price together.
Plan a trip to Gombe National ParkGombe National Park, located on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania, is renowned for its population of wild chimpanzees. Covering only 35 square kilometers, it is one of Tanzania’s smallest national parks, yet offers a unique opportunity for primate trekking. The park became famous through the pioneering research of Dr. Jane Goodall, who studied chimpanzees here since 1960. Gombe is also home to other primates, such as baboons and red-tailed monkeys, as well as a variety of bird species, making it a haven for wildlife and nature lovers.
Most safaris here combine two or three of these.
Fourteen thousand square kilometres of plains, and the stage for the whole wildebeest migration — which is not an event but a year-round circuit the herds never stop walking. Where they are depends on the month, so the Serengeti rewards planning more than any other park in East Africa.
A collapsed volcano twenty kilometres across with twenty-five thousand animals living on the floor of it, walled in by a six-hundred-metre rim. It is the one place in East Africa where seeing all of the Big Five in a single morning is an ordinary outcome rather than a lucky one.
Tarangire has the baobabs and the elephants. In the dry season the river is the only water for miles and the herds concentrate on it — three and four hundred elephant in a day is not unusual, which beats anything the Serengeti offers. It is two hours from Arusha and usually the first stop on a northern circuit.
A narrow strip of forest, lake and floodplain under the Rift Valley escarpment, famous for lions that sleep in the acacia branches. It is small enough to see in half a day and sits directly on the road between Arusha and the Ngorongoro Crater, so it costs an itinerary almost nothing.
Tell us roughly when you can travel and how long you have. We will tell you honestly whether Gombe National Park is the right call for those dates — and what it costs.
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