Monkey Forest

Today a few friends and I went to the monkey forest to officially visit the monkeys (they are also around the town of Ubud when they venture out of the forest). As expected, the monkeys groomed, ate bananas, and humped. There are "monkey experts" who patrol the forest to make sure that people and monkeys are getting along. These experts are actually Balinese hippies - dreadlocks, the whole deal. They also have a special language which is spoken to the monkeys when they aren't speaking broken English to the tourists. Locals walk around selling RP 50,000 ($5) bunches of small bananas to feed the monkeys. It is best to give the bananas to the expert so he can keep the monkeys at bay while coaxing them into doing tricks. They will climb on tourists for a photo before they are allowed a banana. At one point the "leader" monkey came down to do the dirty with his ladies. He went from one to the other literally surrounded by a small circle of tourists - then begged for a banana. The ten of us tourists, although speaking about 4 different languages, all laughed hysterically at the situation while the monkey expert kept shouting - "quick quick take picture - quick quick - take picture - now take picture - quick quick quick - oooooooooh too late - he finish"