WESTERN TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS

LOCATION: Kigoma region

AREA SIZE: 52 sq km (20 sq miles)

Gombe Stream is the smallest of Tanzania's national parks, a thin strip of ancient forest set amidst mountains and steep valleys on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Chimpanzees are Gombe stream's main attraction, they are the stars of the world's chimpanzee community, made famous by the pioneering British researcher Jane Goodall, whose years of constant observation since 1960 have brought to light starling new facts about mankind’s closest cousins.