A few weeks ago we decided to check out the Monkey Training College here in Surat Thani. I don't know what we expected but when we got there it was a small house with a pen full of monkeys. Some looked really ticked off that we were there but the three babies went ape.....or went monkey....or something. The owner let us chill with the babies for about an hour and a half as we waited for a monkey training demonstration that never happened.
What the monkey training college does is train monkeys to climb up coconut trees to harvest the coconuts (This is not a joke. This is where our coconuts come from). It seemed really odd and cruel but the man who runs the college said that the monkeys can pick one thousand coconuts a day when trained while the farmers can only pick about one hundred. He asked us what was the difference between this and a buffalo plowing a field or a horse driving a buggy. The short answer.....they're monkeys! They're like little people with nasty fingernails and strange odors who sometimes like to throw their poop at you.
I have to say, it was pretty weird to have a monkey climbing on my head, trying to crawl into my shirt, and sticking its fingers in my ears. If you want to try out this experience at home get a small child, cover him with hair, give him nail extensions and let him jump out of a tree on your head. Same thing.
1 comment:
You write you have been at the Monkey Training College. But you have not. Unfotrunately many TukTuk drivers drive to another place, who pay the driver money. Even if you carry the address from the real Monkey Training College in Thai with you.
Can you please correct the line in your blog that you have been at our place?
Please check www.firstmonkeyschool.com
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