Monkey Business!

Ever thought you wanted a pet monkey? Well come to India and you will find more monkey business than you could have ever imagined. Here the monkeys are more like the squirrels in their abundance but much more amusing to watch. There are good monkeys, bad monkeys, big monkeys and small monkeys. Some are mischievous, and some are docile, but they are all adorable with their human like characteristics! Here are just a few of our favorite monkey highlights:

While lying on our bed in our hostel our door slowly began to open. Gently and silently a cute little monkey head pokes around the door. While we were “aaawwwing” how adorable it was the mean little bugger darted in the room, grabbed our bananas, hissed at us as I started to get up and like Kiser Sosee, was gone never to be seen again.

Not learning our lesson, we were walking along a rocky beach on the Ganges with exposed bananas looking forward to a lovely breakfast overlooking the river when Brooke felt a little tug on her hand from behind. By the time she turned around the money was running up the rocks with half of our breakfast! Still not learning our lesson, seeing the monkey was 50 meters away eating half of our lunch we stopped paying attention for just a moment to situate our beautiful dining spot. A split second later the same damn monkey using his magic monkey warp speed, grabbed the rest of fruit leaving us shaking our empty bowl and dollop of yogurt at him as turned around to show us how tasty the bananas were to eat.

This one is actually cool! Monkeys swim! To our surprise (and delight since they were truly adorable doing it) we found monkeys in Rishikesh cooling off in the Ganges by diving in and swimming, actually under water, clearly just for the fun of it. With crystal clear water, we can say first hand that a monkey under water is a funny site.