Gombe National Park
Gombe Stream is one of the best places in Africa to track chimpanzees. First researched in the 60's by Jane Goodall, the primates are remarkably habituated.
15 TOP RATED - Tourist Attractions in Tanzania Africa
15 Top Rated Tourist Attractions in Tanzania
1. Mount Kilimanjaro - highest mountain range.
2. Serengeti National Park - the most majestic, picturesque land in all of continental Africa.
3. Zanzibar Beaches - also called Unguja.
4. Ngorongoro Conservation Area - a very unique area.
5. Lake Manyara National Park - awesome park for birding and especially if you like aquatic birds.
6. Mafia Island - where tranquil and beauty are at its best!
7. Tarangire National Park - Amazing park. There are zebra, wilderbeast, elephant, monkeys, gizelle, warthog, all in their masses, everywhere, plus great scenery and lots of colourful birds and iguana and many more. What an amazing park!
8. Pemba Island - This is pure heaven, it is godly beautiful and warm.
9. Stone Town - the cultural heart of Zanzibar.
10. Selous Game Reserve - beautiful place for safari also by boat and walking
11. Arusha National Park - Such a Beautiful Majestic place if you ever have the chance it's a must visit! Beautifully green. Nice easy drive.
12. Ruaha National Park - the least accessible park in Tanzania and as a
result the landscape remains relatively untouched. a place with natural vegetation and its wild animals.
13. Katavi National Park - This park was great. There is no other place to buy food in the village, so you should bring everything you need. The best road in is on the East side of the park. There is a new paved road that takes you almost all the way to the edge of the park.
14. Gombe Stream National Park - It's worth every penny. What A Wonderful Place X All The Animals.
15. Lake Victoria - This is a biggest lake in East Africa, it have nice view here in Mwanza. People are fishing and travelling through, it have some small islands for tourism. Its good place to be on your holiday.
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Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park, Zanzibar, Tanzania - Red Colobus monkeys in Jozani forest, Zanzibar's Park
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The Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park is a 50 km2 (19 sq mi) national park of Tanzania located on the island of Zanzibar. It is the only national park in Zanzibar.
The Zanzibar red colobus, Procolobus kirkii (its population count is about 1000) found in the park, a rain forest species (unlike the black-and-white colobus found in other regions of Africa), is also known as Kirk's red colobus, named after Sir John Kirk (1832–1922), the British Resident of Zanzibar who had first brought it to the attention of zoological science. It is now adopted as the flagship species for conservation in Zanzibar, from the mid-1990s. Other species of fauna found in the park are the Sykes monkey, bush babies, more than 50 species of butterfly and 40 species of birds. The nocturnal Zanzibar tree hyrax, which has four ‘toes’ on its front feet and three on its back, is said to be the first hyrax species that has acclimatized to the forest. As part of the tourism circuit, the park attracts 10% of the over 100,000 visitors to Zanzibar every year. Wild life attractions of Zanzibar also include dolphins apart from deep sea fishing for tuna, marlin, and shark.
Another animal in the forests of the Unguja Island unequaled elsewhere is the Zanzibar Leopard (Panthera pardus adersi). In the local legend, this reportedly extinct species, has been given a mythical status and is called 'Chui' and is part of the superstitious beliefs of the people. People believe that sorcerers keep this animal as their pet and scare people by spinning stories that the animal appears like spirits and disappears into thin air. It was last reported in 1999 and officials, and men working on the “coral rag” lands of the southern and eastern Ungula Island are assertive that the species is not extinct, though it has not been sighted since 2003. The last sighting reported in 2002-2003 was of two leopards. The photographic proof of this species is at present only in the form of a stuffed museum display in Zanzibar Museum and a few skins in museums in London and Massachusetts in USA. A smaller leopard with spots, which is a biological product of the larger animal, is seen now in the island.
The sea grass beds of the Chwaka Bay, fringed with mangrove forests, are important breeding grounds for marine organisms, including open sea fish species. The mangroves are also good breeding grounds for birds. An Integrated Conservation and Development (ICD) planning for the area is under consideration. The bay is also proposed to be declared a Ramsar Site and is placed on the Tanzanian Tentative List for World Heritage Sites to recognize its unique natural and cultural assets with due consideration of proposed conservation efforts.
Ecology
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According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, the park site occupies the largest remaining stand of near-natural forest on Zanzibar. The forest rests upon a reef limestone marine terrace. Habitats within the park and associated protected lands include a groundwater forest, coastal forest, and grassland, with mangroves and salt marsh at the coast. The vegetation types found within the park once existed throughout Zanzibar.
Endangered animals that reside within the park include:
the Zanzibar Red Colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii), an endemic monkey species that exists only in Zanzibar.
the Aders' Duiker (Cephalophus adersi)
the Zanzibar Servaline Genet (Genetta servalina archeri)
Jane Goodall's wild chimpanzees, Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania ..... with Robert Annis
Following in the footprints of such a fabulous and remarkable lady ...... Jane Goodall: Gombe Stream wild chimpanzees, Tanzania.
This journey had been planned in my mind for decades. In 2006 I was fortunate to be able to explore the remote wilderness that Gombe Stream offers and to experience such remarkable encounters with some of the most well know primates on this planet. Not in my wildest dreams did I expect to witness chimpanzees fishing for termites ..... I had seen such behaviour on a documentary on National Geographic, yet here I was, sitting in dense undergrowth watching this with my very eyes.
Thank you to all those who contributed in making my dream come true.
Gombe Stream National Park is located in western Kigoma Region, Tanzania, 10 miles north of Kigoma, the capital of Kigoma Region. Established in 1968, Gombe is the smallest national park in Tanzania, with only 20 square miles of forest running along the hills of the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. The terrain is distinguished by steep valleys, and the forest vegetation ranges from grassland to alpine bamboo to tropical rainforest. Accessible only by boat, the park is most famous as the location where Jane Goodall pioneered her behavioural research conducted on the chimpanzee populations. The Kasakela chimpanzee community, featured in several books and documentaries, lives in Gombe Stream National Park.
Gombe Stream’s high levels of diversity make it an increasingly popular tourist destination. Besides chimpanzees, primates inhabiting Gombe Stream include beachcomber olive baboons, red-tailed monkeys and vervet monkeys. The park is also home to over 200 bird species and bushpigs. There are also 11 species of snakes, and occasional hippopotamus and leopards.
Jane Goodall first traveled to Tanzania in 1960 at the age of 26 with no formal college training. At the time, it was accepted that humans were undoubtedly similar to chimpanzees—we share over 98% of the same genetic code. However, little was known about chimpanzee behaviour or community structure. At the time she began her research, she says “it was not permissible, at least not in ethological circles, to talk about an animal's mind. Only humans had minds. Nor was it quite proper to talk about animal personality. Of course everyone knew that they did have their own unique characters. But ethologists, striving to make theirs a hard science, shied away from the task of trying to explain such things objectively.” However, her research eventually proved just that—the intellectual and emotional sophistication of non-humans, chimpanzees in particular. With the support of renowned anthropologist Louis Leakey, Goodall set up a small research station in Gombe Stream in hopes of learning more about the behavior of our closest relatives. There she spent months tracking the elusive chimpanzee troops, particularly the Kasakela chimpanzee community, and observing their daily habits until she was slowly accepted by one troop and was allowed rare and intimate glimpses into chimpanzee society.
Jane Goodall's wild chimpanzees, Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania ..... with Robert Annis
Following in the footprints of such a fabulous and remarkable lady ...... Jane Goodall. This journey had been planned in my mind for decades.
In 2006 I was fortunate to be able to explore the remote wilderness that Gombe Stream offers and to experience such remarkable encounters with some of the most well know primates on this planet.
Thank you to all those who contributed in making my dream come true.
Gombe Stream National Park is located in western Kigoma Region, Tanzania, 10 miles north of Kigoma, the capital of Kigoma Region. Established in 1968, Gombe is the smallest national park in Tanzania, with only 20 square miles of forest running along the hills of the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. The terrain is distinguished by steep valleys, and the forest vegetation ranges from grassland to alpine bamboo to tropical rainforest. Accessible only by boat, the park is most famous as the location where Jane Goodall pioneered her behavioural research conducted on the chimpanzee populations. The Kasakela chimpanzee community, featured in several books and documentaries, lives in Gombe Stream National Park.
Gombe Stream’s high levels of diversity make it an increasingly popular tourist destination. Besides chimpanzees, primates inhabiting Gombe Stream include beachcomber olive baboons, red-tailed monkeys and vervet monkeys. The park is also home to over 200 bird species and bushpigs. There are also 11 species of snakes, and occasional hippopotamus and leopards.
Jane Goodall first traveled to Tanzania in 1960 at the age of 26 with no formal college training. At the time, it was accepted that humans were undoubtedly similar to chimpanzees—we share over 98% of the same genetic code. However, little was known about chimpanzee behaviour or community structure. At the time she began her research, she says “it was not permissible, at least not in ethological circles, to talk about an animal's mind. Only humans had minds. Nor was it quite proper to talk about animal personality. Of course everyone knew that they did have their own unique characters. But ethologists, striving to make theirs a hard science, shied away from the task of trying to explain such things objectively.” However, her research eventually proved just that—the intellectual and emotional sophistication of non-humans, chimpanzees in particular. With the support of renowned anthropologist Louis Leakey, Goodall set up a small research station in Gombe Stream in hopes of learning more about the behavior of our closest relatives. There she spent months tracking the elusive chimpanzee troops, particularly the Kasakela chimpanzee community, and observing their daily habits until she was slowly accepted by one troop and was allowed rare and intimate glimpses into chimpanzee society.
African expedition 2018 (24) - Ugandan lakes. Lake Nkuruba and surrounding. One day there.
This time I went to crater lakes in Kibale forest region where is over 25 lakes. I stopped for overnight on Nkuruba nature campsite. It's nice place perfect for relax and chilling out. All day on campsite you can to observe many monkeys Black and white colobus or Ugandan red colobus and many more. Lake Nkuruba is very small lake because to arisen in small crater. Other lakes are bigger. It's good place as a base to go to Kibale Forest for chimpanzee walk. Early afternoon I walked onto Top of the world which mean highest peak in area with amazing view on two other lakes. Also like always I spend a bit time in local villages....
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Tanzania,
At 947,300 km², Tanzania is the world's 31st-largest country. Compared to other African countries, it is slightly smaller than Egypt and comparable in size to Nigeria.
Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peakTanzania is mountainous in the northeast, where Mount Kilimanjaro,Africa's highest peak, is situated. To the north and west are the Great Lakes of respectively Lake Victoria (Africa's largest lake) and Lake Tanganyika (the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish) -- and to the southwest lies Lake Nyasa. Central Tanzania comprises a large plateau, with plains and arable land. The eastern shore is hot and humid, with the island of Zanzibar lying just offshore.
Tanzania contains many large and ecologically significant wildlife parks,including the famous Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti National Park in the north, and Selous Game Reserve and Mikumi National Park in the south. Gombe National Park in the west is known as the site of Dr. Jane Goodall's studies of chimpanzee behaviour.
The government of Tanzania through its department of tourism has embarked on a campaign to promote the Kalambo water falls in the southwestern region of Rukwa as one of Tanzania's main tourist destinations. The Kalambo Falls are the second highest in Africa and are located near the southern tip of Lake Tanganyika. The Menai Bay Conservation Area is Zanzibar's largest marine protected area.
Tanzania has considerable wildlife habitat, including much of the Serengeti plain, where the white-bearded wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus mearnsi) and other bovids participate in a large-scale annual migration. Up to 250,000 wildebeest perish each year in the long and arduous movement to find forage in the dry season. Tanzania is also home to 130 amphibian and over 275 reptile species, many of them strictly endemic and included in the IUCN Red Lists of different countries.
Savanna at Ngorongoro Conservation Area.Tanzania has developed a Biodiversity Action Plan to address species conservation. A recently discovered species of elephant shrew called Grey-faced Sengi was filmed for the first time in 2005, and it was known to live in just two forests in the Udzungwa Mountains. In 2008, it was listed as vulnerable on the 2008 Red List of Threatened Species. Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is the largest breeding site for the threatened Lesser Flamingo, a huge community of which nest in the salt marshes of the lake. Areas of East African mangroves on the coast are also important habitats.
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( Swahili: Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern border lies on the Indian Ocean.
The country is divided into 26 regions, 5 on the semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar, and 21 on the mainland in the former Tanganyika.The head of state is President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, elected in 2005. Since 1996, the official capital of Tanzania has been Dodoma, where Parliament and some government offices are located.Between independence and 1996, the main coastal city of Dar es Salaam served as the country's political capital. Today, Dar es Salaam remains the principal commercial city of Tanzania and the de facto seat of most government institutions. It is the major seaport for the country and its landlocked neighbours.
The name Tanzania derives from the names of the two states, Tanganyika and Zanzibar, that united in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, which later the same year was renamed the United Republic of Tanzania. See also Articles of Union which are the main foundation of Tanzania.Wikipedia
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Western Tanzania Backpacking Trip
A short video taken from an epic three week adventure through Tanzania in November, 2014. Highlights in the video include Ruaha NP, Katavi NP, a night motorbike ride from Namanyere to Kipili, Lakeshore Lodge on Lake Tanganyka, the MV Liemba, chimpanzee trekking in Gombe NP, boat rides to and from Kigoma, Kigoma Airport, and finally Zanzibar.
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Tanzania
This is a 13 min video showcasing the 2nd stop in a trip I took to East Africa in 2013. This was the beginning of the National Geographic Expeditions portion of my vacation. After meeting in Dar Es Salaam, we stayed in two locations in Tanzania, both on Lake Tanganika. We hiked the forests of Gombe National Forest, home of Jane Goodall, and Mahale National Forest in search for chimpanzees. We spoke with researchers, saw wonderful chimp behavior, including a kill of a monkey, and eyed some other of nature's critters such as birds, baboons, hippos and more.