7 Days Tanzania Wildlife & Chimp Trekking Safari – Katavi & Gombe

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Trip Overview

Explore Tanzania’s remote Katavi & Gombe Parks on a 7-day wildlife and chimp trekking safari. Encounter wild chimps, vast plains, and untouched wilderness.

Book our 7-day Tanzania Wildlife and Chimp Trekking Safari in Katavi and Gombe Stream National Parks. These are well-known for their stunning landscapes and abundant wildlife, making them home to some of Africa’s most untouched and intriguing national parks. For anyone desiring a deeply engaging encounter with nature, embarking on a 7-day expedition in Katavi and Gombe Stream National Parks offers a rare chance to discover two separate but equally captivating ecosystems.

Itinerary

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Day 1
Day 1: Transfer to Gombe Stream National Park.
Very early in the morning, you will either leave Bujumbura, Dar es Salaam, or Nyanza Lake for the Kabonga border with Tanzania, board the boat to Gombe National Park, get lunch, and thereafter take a forest walk and visit the Kakombe waterfall.

Gombe Stream National Park

In the 1960s, the late Jane Goodall focused on Gombe chimpanzees to satisfy her wanderlust and animal welfare concerns. Surprisingly, Jane had no scientific experience and had previously worked as a secretary. Jane’s work has revealed various chimpanzee-related results, including the discovery that chimps use tools, express emotions, and communicate in ways similar to humans.

Accommodation: Mbali Mbali Gombe Lodge
Day 2
Day 2: Chimpanzee trekking in Gombe Stream National Park
Enjoy your breakfast and transfer to the park headquarters, where you will start your chimpanzee trek in Gombe Stream National Park, where chimpanzee trekking is done. The main attraction here is the chimpanzee families that live protected in the park’s boundaries.

After receiving a briefing, visitors trek deep into the Gombe forest to observe and spend the entire morning with the extraordinary primates. Gombe became well known for the conservation project started by Jane Goodall, who first arrived there in 1960. Apart from chimpanzee viewing, many other species of primates live in Gombe Stream’s tropical forests, like velvet and colobus monkeys and baboons. After trekking these primates, our guide will take you to lunch at the hotel.

Accommodation: Mbali Mbali Gombe Lodge

Meals: Full Board
Day 3
DAY 3: Transfer to Katavi National Park.
Enjoy your breakfast and board the boat to Kigoma town with your packed lunch. Enjoy your packed lunch during the journey and continue on to your destination. Upon arrival, you will be picked up and transferred to Katavi National Park.

Katavi National Park is a must-see for elephant lovers. Katavi National Park is the third largest national park in Tanzania, with an area of 4,471 square kilometers (1,726 square miles). It is also one of the least visited parks in the country. There aren’t any five-star hotels in this area except for a few basic game camps. Katavi is an ancient park, a real land of giants. Its remoteness and the wildlife, which is as wild as anywhere else, are its best features. People who are lucky enough to visit this national park will feel like they’ve been on a trip they will never forget!

Accommodation: Palahala Luxury Camp
Day 4&5
DAY 4 &5: Full day game drive in Katavi National Park.
After enjoying your delicious breakfast, you will drive to the park for a full-day game drive with your packed lunch. Explore the Katavi floodplains and inner side of the park. The park is noted for its Miombo woodland and is home to buffalo, elephants, leopards, lions, and zebras. Antelope species include eland, impala, topi, roan, and sable. Katavi also boasts Tanzania’s greatest concentration of hippo and crocodile.

Palahala Luxury Camp

You will spend your nights in Palahala Camp, located in the isolated Katavi National Park in southern Tanzania, a permanent tented luxury safari camp that offers the ideal opportunity for your Tanzania safari to see Africa’s wildlife-rich, pleasantly untouched environment. Palahala, which means “sable antelope” in Swahili, opened to the public in 2005 and boasts a prime location on the Kapapa River, which is especially important during the dry season.
Day 6&7
Day 6&7: Explore Kigoma Town and Departure
Enjoy your breakfast, then leave Katavi with a packed lunch to transfer to Kigoma town, where you will have dinner and spend the night at the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

The next day after enjoying your breakfast, transfer to Dr. Livingstone Memorial Centre at Ujiji. this is the village close to Kigoma town where, in 1858, Burton and Speke commenced their exploration of lake Tanganyika and where, in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley pronounced the famous words, ‘Dr. Livingstone.’ Then proceed to take your flight to Dar es Salaam for a joining flight back home.

Accommodation: Kigoma Hilltop Hotel.