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. but none the less; as Dr Dame Jne Goodall found; it is a place you may want to spend the rest of your life.

Its chimpanzees – habituated to human visitors – were made famous by the pioneering work of Jane Goodall, who in 1960 founded a behavioural research program

Located at 16 kilometres north of Kigoma on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Is the smallest national park but one of the best known. This national park  is one of the few places where chimpanzees can still be found in their natural habitat. Since 1960 , Dr. Jane Goodall and colleagues have lived here studying the 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.