Monkey Shrine/Village!

The pictures shown below are pictures from my adventure last weekend in the Volta Region. The Volta Region is located on the east side of Ghana right on the border with Togo. A group of 30 students left on Saturday morning at 7:30am and we got back to campus at around 10:45pm that night. The monkey shrine and waterfall locations were about 4-5 hours away from campus. While on the trip, we saw monkeys (visited a monkey village), saw a pineapple farm, visited Wli Waterfalls - the largest waterfall in West Africa, and walked into Togo for about 5-10 minutes. Enjoy!



This is a Diana monkey. This picture was taken from the monkey shrine village we visited in Volta Region. At first the monkeys were shy and did not want to approach us but when we showed them bananas they came down from high in the trees and closer to the ground.







It is really great and refreshing to witness and see how highly intelligent monkeys are. As seen in this photo, the person is giving the monkey the banana with the peel still on. All of the monkeys peel off the outside before eating the bananas.





The leaves are in front of his eyes, but you can see the banana hanging out of his mouth.