About a week ago, I went on a mini-trip to Kyoto. It was here that I went to Arashiyama. Arashiyama is a cute little area in Kyoto where they have a nice little river, a monkey park, a bamboo forest, and some cute little stores. Wait... what? A Monkey Park? What is a Monkey Park? Good question... This is a monkey park... 
What you are seeing is a shot from after a small hike up a mountain. There`s a little park that...well, I`m not sure ifi ts FOR monkeys or for people but taken over by monkeys. I didn`t think it`d be so weird to see monkeys in person. There are swings, a slide, benches, handrails...everything a regular park would have except the monkeys are all running all over so...I think it`s theirs. Also they were probably there first.
Though it appears it`s in a cage, it is actually the opposite. At the top of the mountain there`s a cage where humans sit to be protected from the animals. You can walk outside but you might want a little break from almost stepping on angry monkeys. (At least I think they were angry. All of their faces were so red. Maybe they forgot that SPF30, it was the first really sunny day in a while)
The rest of Kyoto is a beautiful place. It is full of beautiful shrines and temples (over 1000) It`s hard to get more than 5 in in one day though so if you go, go for a few days. One place we went to was Fushimi-Inari where there is an endless row of Torii (these big red gates). 
What you are seeing is a shot from after a small hike up a mountain. There`s a little park that...well, I`m not sure ifi ts FOR monkeys or for people but taken over by monkeys. I didn`t think it`d be so weird to see monkeys in person. There are swings, a slide, benches, handrails...everything a regular park would have except the monkeys are all running all over so...I think it`s theirs. Also they were probably there first.Though it appears it`s in a cage, it is actually the opposite. At the top of the mountain there`s a cage where humans sit to be protected from the animals. You can walk outside but you might want a little break from almost stepping on angry monkeys. (At least I think they were angry. All of their faces were so red. Maybe they forgot that SPF30, it was the first really sunny day in a while)
Look towards the center of this picture and, its hard to see, but theres this kind of reddish brown line that goes all the way up the mountain to a shrine. That line is all Torii... since it takes two hours to go up the whole thing, we decided to just walk through a little, I got the basic idea.
More to come. The cherry blossoms are blooming now and by next week they should all be bloomed.
2 comments:
I can't wait to climb it.I am sooo looking forward to this trip.
you guys always wanted a chimp as a pet. maybe if there was a monkey park in Evanston for us to take our chimp I would have gotten you one.
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