Gombe Streams National Park
Although Gombe Stream is Tanzania’s smallest national park covering a mere 52 square kilometers, it is a magnificent remote destination well worth the troubles on reaching it.
Gombe stream national park is an oblong strip of rugged, mountainous terrain subjugated by many steep-sided ridges and valleys. This park is covered by a complex assortment of vegetation types, with rolling grasslands on the ridge crests, open woodlands on the steep slopes and thick evergreen forests along the valley floors. The park is a small natural habitat and an isolated ecosystem bordered by Lake Tanganyika to the west and the high wall of the Great Rift Valley escarpment to the east.
50 species of animal have been identified in the park predominantly from the monkey family: chimpanzees, yellow baboon, Sykes monkeys, red and black & white colobus monkeys. The park also hosts a variety of reptiles, birds and small mammals.
The best time to visit is between May and October