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Detailed Itineraries
Day 1:
Arrive in Kigoma by flight/Bus/Ferry/Train
You will be
picked by Our Professional Guide and taken to
the Kigoma Hilltop hotel.
For Dinner & Overnight.
Kigoma
Attractions.
It's an overland Base to visit to Lake Tanganyika chimpanzee
trekking safaris to Both GombeNational Park and Mahale
Mountain National Park.
Travel from Kigoma to Gombe takes 35minutes to an hour.
While Kigoma to mahale takes 5 to 8 hours depending on the
type of Boat used & weather and lake conditions
Day 2-3:
Ferry to Gombe
for 2 days chimpanzee trekking Dinner and Overnight at Gombe
Forest Lodge.
GOMBE NATIONAL
PARK ATTRACTIONS:
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.
The most visible
of Gombe’s other mammals are also primates. A troop of
beachcomber olive baboons, under study since the 1960s, is
exceptionally habituated, while red-tailed and red colobus
monkeys - the latter regularly hunted by chimps – stick to
the forest canopy.
The park’s
200-odd bird species range from the iconic fish eagle to the
jewel-like Peter’s twinspots that hop tamely around the
visitors’ centre.
After dusk, a
dazzling night sky is complemented by the lanterns of
hundreds of small wooden boats, bobbing on the lake like a
sprawling city.
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