First, I went to Arashiyama, an old style town built around a river (but I will put all that in the next post). In Arashiyama is the Iwatayama Monkey Park, with promise of seeing wild monkeys.
I thought it might be interesting, so I payed the 560-Yen admission to the park, and started to climb the mountain along the path.
and I climbed...
and climbed...
and climbed...
Until I got to the top and realized that I had been greatly under-informed about the monkeys.
That's right, the lot of 120 monkeys were EVERYWHERE, just sitting, walking, eating, and playing amongst the humans that come to see them. It was simply amazing to interact with wild monkeys like this (and a bit exhilarating when one of the alpha-males chased me off; a bit camera-shy.)
I'll post video soon (it's not uploading right now)
4 comments:
Wow! The monkeys are almost as amazing as you are, Chris! The baby is sooo cute. We felt like we were there with you. Thanks for the adventure.
Love,
Jenny
OH. MY. GOD. FREAKING MONKEYS. If I got there, I would have imagined that I died on the trek up and gone to heaven. Primate heaven. One day, I will have a monkey of my own, and she will be a knife-fighter and throw her fecal matter at everyone. Yessir. That last photo? I can totally see the family resemblance. AH. I can just imagine this aggressive monkey chasing you away, arms flailing and mouth open in a screech. It makes me warm inside. MONKEYS. BY JOVE, MONKEYS!
I can totally see several great macros being made out of those monkey pictures. :D
They have a lot of personality and are very cute. <3 That climb looks amazing... I would die trying to climb that hahahahha.
Great blog! I'm planning a long trip to Kyoto soon and find your site really helpful and entertaining. :)
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