Thursday, November 13, 2014

Tarakan Monkey Park

We had been hearing about a cool monkey park here on the island, and a few weeks ago we decided to check it out. For 5000 Rp (about 50 cents) per person we were able to walk around this beautiful forest and view the monkeys. They were swinging freely in the trees above us, not contained by anything but the large fence around the park. Such a beautiful sight!

 
The entire park had these wooden walkways that were built up several feet off the ground. All of the trees had an incredible above ground root system. Maybe I'll catch a better picture of those next time.
 

Surrounding the trees was mostly mud, and in the mud lived these funny-looking little creatures called "mudskippers" 
 




 Proboscis Monkey Family



 
More monkeys....oh wait...no that's just the fam :)
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