Minimum age 15. Six visitors per chimpanzee group,
one hour with the chimps, seven to ten metres back.
Bring your own face mask.
Do not trek with a cough or a fever.
Park entry for non‑residents :
USD 100 conservation fee plus 18% VAT, about USD 118 per adult per trek.
Not sure when to come?
Month‑by‑month guideGazetted in 1968 and covering just 35 km² on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, Gombe is the smallest national park in Tanzania, and one of the most significant. Steep valleys and forested ridges rise straight from the lake, sheltering around a hundred wild chimpanzees alongside olive baboons, red colobus, red‑tailed and blue monkeys, and more than 200 species of bird.
Jane Goodall began watching the Kasekela chimpanzees here in 1960, and that study is now the longest‑running of any wild animal population anywhere. There are no roads into the park, every visitor arrives by boat from Kigoma.
Karibu Gombe.
Guides log every sighting: which chimps were seen, where the group was feeding and how far the trek went. Notes go back to 1960…
Gombe is the smallest national park in Tanzania, yet this narrow strip of lakeshore forest protects around 100 wild chimpanzees and more than 200 recorded bird species.
Ready-made routes across Gombe and the wider region, from short trips to full circuits.
Trips coming soon.