Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Monkey Forest

I have been fascinated by monkeys for as long as I can remember, my dream is to one day be able to go and see them in the wild as I hate visiting zoos where animals are caged, for some reason it makes me feel really uncomfortable and I end up not having a good time. Stuart has known about my monkey love for a long time and surprised me last year with a trip to the Trentham Monkey Forest in Stafford. Here, in 60 acres of woodland 140 Barbary Macaques live in total freedom. The monkeys are able to explore the surroundings with almost complete freedom. We paid, went into the forest and straight away I felt an overwhelming sense of disappointment - where were the monkeys?!! Well it turned out that my crushing disappointment was wrong, we turned a corner and WOW monkeys galore! Everywhere you looked there were monkeys - old monkeys, young monkeys, baby monkeys being carried around, it was incredible! At Trentham there is 3/4 mile winding path which you follow around the forest, as we were walking around monkeys would just appear in front of you going about their lives.
The photos below are just a small selection of the photos that we took during the couple of hours we were there - I would recommend a trip here to anyone!!











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  1. Lauren - Scrapbook Blog14 November 2012 at 08:02

    I love Monkeys! I want to go to monkeyworld at some point, but I had never heard of this place, so this is being added to the list now! Monkey bits of the Zoo are always my fave whenever we go to one!x

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    1. Gemma White14 November 2012 at 10:54

      It's amazing!! There's a really sweet little shopping village next door which is nice and does amazing hot chocolate and truffles!! x

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  2. RuBee25 November 2012 at 07:52

    I love monkeys! I saw monkey and oranutangs in the wild and in an orphanage in Borneo a few years ago and on my honeymoon in Vietnam in August we came back to our villa to find 5 monkeys drinking out if our pool! It was amazing! X

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    1. Gemma White30 November 2012 at 11:41

      Oh I would LOVE to do that, I keep looking into it but I've not plucked the courage up to go out there yet. That would make my honeymoon :) x

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