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On a visit to the monkey forest in 2008 I stayed at the amazing Alam Jiwa hotel which meant that my companion and I had to walk along the perimeter of the forest to get to central Ubud; note that this was a great Bali vacation package at Alam Jiwa but these days, they are fully booked in busy season. On one occasion best time to travel australia walking best time to travel australia through the forest, a monkey grabbed the stainless steel water bottle out of my hand. When I recovered from the pain of the bottle best time to travel australia landing on my big toe I promised myself I'd avoid the monkey forest in the future.
Fred is a 50-something yoga friend from Seattle who had been to Guatemala and Vladivostok, Russia before his trip to Bali but he'd not seen monkeys up close in those two locations so I promised him we could visit the temples inside the forest.
There is a warning sign on the perimeter of the forest to not eat food in the forest and to keep your belongings close at hand. Fred did not travel with a typical backpack or daypack commonly used by frequent travelers that offer zippered-protection from thieves; human or monkey. Instead, Fred carried what I'd call a 'Whole-Foods purse', i.e. an environmentally best time to travel australia responsible cloth option to the prolific and demonic plastic shopping bag blowing best time to travel australia around the streets and beaches of Bali.
Within 5 minutes of strolling into the forest of (too many) monkeys, a monkey approached the WF purse from behind and successfully grabbed a plastic bag containing suntan lotion. He removed the plastic tube from the bag, flipped open the cap and squirted suntan lotion on his own furry hand and arm. Being environmentally responsible himself, the monkey handed the plastic best time to travel australia bag back to Fred, presumably for proper recycling. Fred's sole comment was 'why does that monkey need suntan lotion because we're in the middle of the forest best time to travel australia which has no direct sunlight'. All I could think of for a reply at the time was 'I assume the monkey has the mentality and logic of a 2-year old child…we best time to travel australia should be happy he gave us the plastic bag back for recycling'.
About ten minutes later we were observing a large group of tourists taking pictures of monkeys eating bananas out of their hands in front of the Monkey Forest Temple. It looked like a rabies best time to travel australia incident waiting to happen and not something we were interested in doing. Within seconds though a monkey jumped onto my shorts and started clawing his way up my torso with an outstretched hand. I instinctively tried to shake him off to the ground once I realized that the hand was reaching for my shiny silver earring loop.
With the possibly painful yank on my ear avoided I glanced over to Fred who had a monkey sitting on his shoulder. The look on his face was a frozen combination of shock, fear and uncertainty of what to do next. Within seconds I noticed that the monkey had his paw on the temple piece of Fred's wire-rimmed glasses. I shouted 'Fred, the monkey is going to take your glasses, grab them before he does'.
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The monkey police officer brought about 8 bananas and we called repeatedly to the culprit sitting on a tree branch chewing the plastic wire. Instead of getting the attention of the monkey holding the hearing aid we had several others clawing at our legs trying to get the bananas. Finally the monkey put it in his mouth, grabbed a vine and swung over the steep ravine down to the river. Fred wasn't sure at the time if the hearing aids were covered by insurance and exclaimed in a voice that was louder best time to travel australia than usual, 'Well Michael, you're going to have to start shouting at me again if you ever want to do something like eat dinner, otherwise I won't be able to hear you'.
It turns out that Fred did have insurance for the $3,000 hearing aid but the insurance agent said to put 'lost hearing aid on vacation' on the claim form and to not mention the monkey to ensure it would be reimbursed.
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