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Western Tanzania
Includes Why Go? Tabora ...... 239 Western Tanzania is rough, remote frontier land, with vast Kigoma...... 241 trackless expanses, minimal infrastructure and few visitors: Ujiji...... 244 not much different to when Stanley found Livingstone here. Gombe Stream The west serves a sense of adventure now extinct in the rest National Park . . . . 245 of the country. This is precisely what attracts a trickle of travellers, many of whom plan their itineraries around the Mahale Mountains National Park . . . . 246 schedules of the MV Liemba, which sails down Lake Tanga- nyika, and the Central Line train, which crosses the country. Kalema...... 249 But it’s wildlife watching that brings most people. Gombe Kipili...... 249 Stream, Jane Goodall’s former stomping grounds, and Ma- Kasanga...... 249 hale Mountains National Parks are two of the world’s best Mpanda ...... 249 places for chimpanzee encounters, while the vast flood- Katavi plains of rarely visited Katavi National Park offer an almost National Park . . . . 251 primeval safari experience. Unless you charter a plane as part of a tour, you’ll need Sumbawanga . . . . 253 plenty of time and patience to travel here. But, for that cer- tain sort of traveller, Tanzania’s west is Tanzania’s best.
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