Sunday morning we rose very early to go to a monkey sanctuary. As we walked through the forest, the monkeys came up really close to us. We bought bananas and were able to feed them. One of the neat things about this place is that the villagers believe that the monkeys are the children of the gods and treat them like humans. If someone hurt a monkey, they receive the same punishment. If someone kills a monkey, they are killed. When the monkeys die (from sickness or old age), they leave the forest to die in the center of the village. The villagers bury them in a monkey cemetery in mokey-sized coffins.
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