My Monkey Encounter

“Soaking it up at Victoria Falls”, you would have thought it was raining, but soaking in a good experience left me with marks. My entire body was soaked with the falls water.

As I arrived at Victoria Falls all I saw were monkeys. It was like monkey heaven, they were just roaming without caution. This is how our encounter started, Reneka, Francis, and I were coming to the van to take a break from shopping. I guess the monkey was watching us ever since the van door opened.

We were sitting in the van for about 5 minutes when a female monkey and its baby approached the side door. The first thing to be noticed: one little furry arm reaching in, then I saw a monkey’s head. The female monkey stared me directly in the face while rampaging through a plastic bag that contained food. Once that was a going on I wasn’t really sure what to do. So I didn’t have any choice but to grab the bag. So the monkey and I were having a competition of tug-of-war for about 25 seconds. I am going to admit that monkey was pretty strong and managed to maintain a piece of bread. It was scary because I wasn’t sure what to do when the monkey was only a couple of inches away from me.

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