Gombe Stream National Park – Walk in Jane Goodall's Footsteps

Gombe Stream National Park is one of Tanzania’s most famous, most historically significant, and most extraordinary national parks — a place whose name is forever etched in the history of science, conservation, and our understanding of the natural world. Located on the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the Kigoma Region of western Tanzania, Gombe Stream is Tanzania’s smallest national park — covering just 52 square kilometres of steep forested valleys, crystal-clear streams, and dramatic lake shore — yet it is arguably the most famous and scientifically important national park in all of Africa.

Gombe Stream National Park owes its extraordinary global fame to one remarkable woman — Dame Jane Goodall — the legendary British primatologist, ethologist, and conservationist who arrived at Gombe in July 1960 at the age of just 26, sent by the celebrated paleoanthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey to conduct a long-term study of the wild chimpanzees living in the Gombe forest. What followed was one of the most extraordinary and transformative scientific journeys in the history of natural science — a decades-long study of wild chimpanzee behavior that produced discoveries so revolutionary and so profound that they fundamentally changed the way humanity understands its closest living relatives and our own place in the natural world.
Today Gombe Stream National Park continues to be home to one of the world’s longest-running wildlife research projects — the Gombe Chimpanzee Research Project — which has now been running continuously for over 60 years, making it the longest field study of any animal species in history. The park is also one of Tanzania’s finest and most rewarding chimpanzee trekking destinations — offering visitors the extraordinary and humbling privilege of spending time with the very chimpanzee communities that Jane Goodall first studied over six decades ago