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TOURIST ATTRACTION

Gombe Stream National Park:

Gombe National Park is located 16 km north of Kigoma town in western Tanzania. It is a narrow strip of mountainous country bourdered in the east by the eastern rift valley escarpment and by lake Tanganyika in the west. Gombe is most famous for Jane Goodall, the primatologist who spent years in its forests studying the behaviour of the endangered chimpanzees. Located on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Gombe Stream is an untamed place of luxuriant forests and clear lake views. Hiking and swimming are also popular.

The main attraction of the park is the chimpanzee families that live protected in the park’s boundaries. Guided walks are available that take visitors deep into the forest to observe and sit with the extraordinary primates. Apart from chimpanzee viewing, many other species of primates live in Gombe Stream’s tropical forests. Vervet and colobus monkeys, baboons, forest pigs and small antelope inhabit the dense forest, in addition to a wide variety of tropical birdlife.

Mahale Mountains National Park:



Mahale Mountains National Park is located in one of the most remote locations in Tanzania, on the western border with the Congo, against the dramatic shores of Lake Tanganyika. Tourist can only reach the park by small aircraft. The park is a home of large chimpanzee population that is well acclimatized to human contact. Although the nearby Gombe Stream National Park is more famous, the primate population in Mahale Mountains is more numerous and sightings more regular and prolonged.

Observing the chimpanzees in their natural habitat, one cannot help but be touched by their natural grace and anthropomorphic features. Although remote, a chimpanzee safari to Mahale Mountains National Park is well worth the effort.

 Moyowosi Game Reserve:

Moyowosi Game Reserve is located in Kibondo District. It is within the Malagalasi-Moyowosi wetland, which is the large and excellent example of an East African floodplain wetland ecosystem in good condition. The wetland provides an important  feeding area for migratory animals including many water birds and large mammal species.

The vegetation of Moyowosi is mainly Miombo woodland. The wetlands are covered with swamp, which are home for the Sitatunga, Hippos and the Crocodile. There are also Topi, Zebra, Buffalo and few types of antelope such as Sable and Roan.There are also a number of rivers within the game reserve, such as the Malagalasi river.
 
Lake Tanganyika:



It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, in both cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. The lake is divided between four countries –Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Tanzania, Burundi,  and  Zambia, with the DRC (45%) and Tanzania (41%) having the majority of the lake.

The lake holds at least 250 species of cichlid fish and 150 non-cichlid species, most of which live along the shoreline up to a depth of approximately 600 feet. Lake Tanganyika is an important biological resource for the study of speciation in evolution.
 
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