A friend I traveled with in Africa was (and is) obsessed with monkeys. While I and our other traveling partner went for reasons encompassing things like exposure to different cultures, food, and, well, lions and hippos and elephants, our companion went for the primates.
Which when you come to think of it is not a bad way to organize your travels. There are a lot of places you can see monkeys - and chimpanzees, orangutans, baboons, and other primates - and we book tours to many of them. You can visit the sacred Monkey Forest in Bali, or explore wildlife parks in Costa Rica and Barbados. In Belize, locals have joined together to create a Baboon Sanctuary.
For sheer audacity however few places beat the Taj Mahal for cheeky monkeys. One recently toppled a bit of decorative masonry there. But such wanton monkey vandalism is relatively rare - still, maybe a pith helmet wouldn’t go astray.
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