Last Updated on January 23, 2024 by Tia
In this article, I am sharing the story of the monkey who ate my sunglasses at the Ubud Monkey Forest in Bali.
A part of my travel fails series, you will particularly enjoy this, especially if you can relate to the hilarious misfortunes that travel often entails!
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It all started at the Ubud Monkey Forest
We arrived in Bali, Indonesia on a girls trip, feeling travel confident and totally ready for a blast.
And a blast we had indeed, with Bali providing everything we had hoped for and more.
The weather was fab, the wine was flowing, our villa was #instagoals and life was amazing.
Until we visited the Monkey Forest that is.
Ubud Monkey Forest is home to a variety of monkey species, especially Balinese Long-tailed Monkeys.
Here, the animals roam free with no cages, shows, or chains.
Oh YES! screamed the animal lover in me, to this we shall go!
Our driver dropped us off at the entrance and left us with a warning “do not carry with you any food or drink, the monkeys like to steal”. But I was too excited to give that statement much care – the monkeys were waiting!
In we entered and out came the iPhones to capture hundreds of seemingly cute monkeys, swinging from trees, eating bananas and carrying their teeny tiny monkey babies #squeeeel.
The Ubud Monkey Forest Attack
After about an hour of roaming the forest, needing a break and some shade, we sat down on a bench.
We proceeded to prop our sunglasses on our heads and excitedly talk about how epic Bali was.
Suddenly, I hear a loud shriek of a monkey (in true Tarzan style) followed straight after by the sensation of two FEET landing my head.
That bastard monkey had landed on my head, ripped the sunglasses off my head, and triumphantly strutted off into the jungle with its Gucci prize.
Holy Shit! screamed the girls!
I tried to maintain my cool- after all ” I am an experienced traveler ” I thought!
We tried to approach the monkey in true ” Come heeeeree kitty” style.
Nop. Up the tree it climbed, clutching my glasses for dear life.
The Pandemonium
We then tried to bribe it with mangoes, and bananas but you guessed it, NOP.
Still not bothered- although it did create a pandemonium of other thieving monkeys eager for the fruit.
By this point, the whole park was involved!
Other guests are filming and laughing. Chloe and Megan are throwing fruit as bribes and screaming ”come here you thief!”.
The park keeper is trying to climb the tree, and in the middle of all this, is me shrieking ”nooooo don’t hurt the monkey!!!”
So where was the thieving monkey? Well, sitting comfortably and triumphantly at the top of a tree.
Simply chilling…chewing my beloved Gucci sunnies and completely unfazed by the pandemonium created below.
The Defeat
No prize was worth giving up the glasses. No fruit or snack was delicious enough! They were his, and that was that!
About 45 minutes later, we left the park wired, defeated, and definitely Gucci-less.
Monkey 1- Tia 0!
And THAT folks is how the monkey stole my glasses, in Ubud Monkey Forest!
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