Thursday, February 26, 2009

Monkey Mountain

Chai Shan is a hill to the north of Kaohsiung that is also called Ape Hill or Monkey Mountain. The name is apt because as soon as you start hiking up it, you start seeing monkeys. Everywhere.

When we got to the top of the hill there was a little lookout where a lot of people were hanging out, with more monkeys. Actually, not everyone was just hanging out. There was a high bar and some rings that one guy was using. It's quite a hike. If you charge up that hill, get to the top and decide it's time to practice your Iron cross, you win, man.

Right. So we're drinking tea at the top of this hill when I feel something brush up against me. I look over and there's a big old monkey looking at me. I pop up and notice that he's holding the wrapper from the energy bar I had eaten earlier. It's a pickpocket monkey!

He tires of the empty wrapper and climbs onto Aileen and tries to dig through her satchel as well. An elderly couple shoos him away with a stick they're holding (for that purpose). He pops up onto the lookout railing. Then a guy comes out of nowhere and starts shooting at the monkey! It was some sort of air gun, and the guy wielded it with every ounce of menace he had. He did not mess around. Neither did his t-shirt. Saved by Playerz 69.

The photo set can be found here.
The map of the photo set is here.

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