Monkeys really do steal!!!

One of the funniest stories of 2019 and I just couldn’t make this up. True to stories heard from other travellers monkeys really do steal.

The night before going on a trip to Mt Popa a place where monkeys have a huge reputation in stealing and attacking tourists, I was trying to plan our journey. I was ignorant to think stories I have heard were just exaggerated and that nothing would ever happen to me I was also trying to convince our new found friend to come with us assuring her nothing would happen and these stories were exaggerated. I even went to the extent of joking I would protect her from any monkeys if needed.

So The next morning we went to Mt Popa and because I thought nothing could ever happen to me, I was in full gear with camera on my hands, jewellery on my body and other valuable out on the open. 5 minutes upon walking to the entrance Karma hit and saw multiple monkeys following me (and only me). Then quiet quickly a monkey jumped on my backpack and managed to grab my eye glasses (the only one for this trip). After this I learnt my belief of exaggerated monkey stories were wrong and I quickly hid my other valuables in my bag and even double zipping it.

I thought my glasses were long gone and that I would spend the rest of my trip partially blind but then the locals managed to get the glasses back, but I did pay them a small fee. Morale of the story, listen to other traveller’s warnings.

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