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In Search Of The Chimpanzee In The African Jungle
he Mahale Mountains Park days and is not reliable at all
and Gombe Stream are a and not really recommended for
mixture of grass, woodlands tourists. From Kigoma there are
and forest, although it is mostly no roads into Gombe and to hire a
forest with the majority of its boat is the only way to get to
mammals being primates. These Gombe.
forests are lush and green rising
up to 15,000 meters above the The camps in this area tend to be
waters of Lake Tanganyika. small and are often [charmingly]
rustic and eco-friendly. The
With over twenty years of lake, unusually for Africa, has
research, the chimpanzees have no crocodiles and many traveler
become habituated to humans. swim in the clear waters. Sunset
However, this does not make it cruisers and tourists go hand in
easy to find them. Trekking hand and this destination is no
through the forest, which can be exception. A sunset cruise here
quite dense, with steep and often is especially enjoyable as the
slippery sloping terrain, can be sunsets over the Lake and Eastern
strenuous, dirty work. It is well Zaire spectacular.
worth it though to get to see the
chimpanzee in their natural As this park is remote and as the
habitat. You must expect to walk Government is anxious to keep
for three or four hours per day tourism to a minimum, [so park
in search of the these primates. fees are high] getting here and
into the forests to spend time
Lake Tanganyika is in the remote with the chimpanzees is expensive
west of Tanzania. Getting there but you are in the wilds of
is not easy and flying is by far Africa. [primates in this small
the best option. There is a rail park which was created especially
link but it can sometimes take for the thousands of chimpanzee
are : chimpanzees, yellow baboon, lake making snorkeling a safari
Sykes monkeys, red tailed, in itself.
savannah, colobus monkeys and 2
species of galago] The bird life The Tanzanian Tourist Board
is also spectacular as are the recommend visiting here between
fish with over 90 species in the May and October.
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