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Gombe Stream National Park

The smallest of the Tanzania 's national parks and is a fragile remnant of chimpanzee [pan troglodytes] habitat. This park is a place of personalities, Chimps are as individually unique as human beings and no need of scientific expertise is required to distinguish the characteristic difference.

This park is located only 16 km [10 miles] north of Kigoma Town on the shore of Lake Tanganyika [the longest lake in the world about 700 km long] in the western perimeters of Tanzania.
Its about 52 sq. km [around 32 sq.miles]. Activities - Trekking on chimpanzee, hiking, swimming/snorkeling, visit the site of Henry Stanley's famous" Dr Livingstone I presume" at Ujuji near Kigoma Town and watch the renowned dhow builders at work.

This is the smallest of the Tanzania 's national parks and is a fragile remnant of chimpanzee [pan troglodytes] habitat. This park is a place of personalities, Chimps are as individually unique as human beings and no need of scientific expertise is required to distinguish the characteristic difference.

This park is located only 16 km [10 miles] north of Kigoma Town on the shore of Lake Tanganyika [the longest lake in the world about 700 km long] in the western perimeters of Tanzania.
Its about 52 sq. km [around 32 sq.miles]. Activities - Trekking on chimpanzee, hiking, swimming/snorkeling, visit the site of Henry Stanley's famous" Dr Livingstone I presume" at Ujuji near Kigoma Town and watch the renowned dhow builders at work.