Iwatayama : Arashiyama Monkey Park

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September 22nd 2014

Published: October 25th 2014

I seem to remember that some park in Japan had been somewhat overtaken by Macaque monkeys and thought thismight be the place, so had to go check it out. While it turns out that I was wrong about that, it was really quite an interesting experience and I was very glad I went to check it out. Once you get to the area, there is a bit of a hike to reach the 160m above sea level area where the feeding ... Read Full Entry

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Doug Gschwind

Welcome to my travel blog. Thus far, I have shared a few of my recent trips, some highlights below : 1) Japan, Sep 2014. With the allure of a very foreign culture to me, non-English speaking, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Shinkansen (bullet trains), Tsukiji fish market, and Sumo wrestling, it was time for a two week break from life and traveled to Japan for the second half of September. Wow, what an amazing place, just loved every minute I spent there exploring. 2) On assignment in Berkeley, CA (Sep 2008 - Apr 2009). I explored the San Francisco Bay area in some detail during the weekends I was there ... full info

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Close Proximity

I was just a couple of feet away from these two, they could care less. While I was standing here, a couple raced past my legs nearly running into me

Resting in the shade

I sat down briefly across the path from the front monkey, and it immediately was on its feet and moving toward me. The moment I stood back up, the monkey no longer cared about me. Very wild

Monkeys Everywhere

On the roof, on the mopeds, in the pond ....

Closed Hilltop

Would have liked to have hiked up further, but you are not allowed. Maybe the monkeys get aggressive up there

Enterprising Youth

Young monkey rifling through the pockets of this moped. Too funny. Things that were not of interest were thrown to the ground....

Tree

The monkeys loved this tree that sat right beside the pond. Good news is that if you fall out of the tree, you land in the pond

No cares about these humans

Taken while sitting in a chair

About a foot from this individual. It wasn't too concerned about my presence

Dripping Wet

This youngster had just gotten out of the pond and climbed along the roofline of the building, dripping some nice clean pond water on me in the prcess as it climbed above me

Kyoto Tower in the distance

In the middle of the photo

Feeding House

Not pictured is the attendant that guards the door to the feeding house so no monkeys get in there. Would be mayhem I expect

Beautiful Area

Too bad you can't hike to the top...

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