Monkeys & Deer

Looking out the window the other day I was surprised to see a monkey underneath our balcony. By the time I got my camera he had gone to the other side of the street where his other very fat companion was sitting on a wall. Our apartment guard told us that there is a small band in the area that often come down, and said one of them made off with his banana the other day.

To elaborate on the guards, every apartment complex and private house has guards who watch the place 24 hours a day. They don't really seem to do much at all during the day and we live in a very safe neighborhood, but they look after the place and greet you when we are coming & going. Being a guard has to be one of the most boring jobs in the world, but there seems to be a bit of prestige involved.

We walked to nearby Guindy National Park just about a mile from our apartment. Most of the park is closed to the public and set aside as a natural area, but it does have a small zoo and snake farm.

We see many of these trees in the wild areas, where parasite trees grow up the mother tree and drop roots down to the ground. They eventually kill the mother tree and leave a maze of trunks holding up parts of the dead host tree.


Guindy park is one of the few places you can see deer that are native to the area.

There are quite a few loose monkeys at the park. I caught a photo of this guy after he snuck up on an unsuspecting youngster and stole his bag of chips.