Monkeying Around

On our second-last day in Samui, in the interest of actually leaving our hotel for once, we went to the Samui Monkey Theatre. I was excited because I knew the kids would love it, and they did. We all loved it. It was the most fun we had on Koh Samui, that's for sure.



After we arrived, we purchased monkey snacks from a ladyboy and fed most of them to an adorable baby monkey on a leash just inside the entrance. He was very friendly and definitely knew the drill, no doubt having become very familiar with how best to extract food from tourists.









We were a bit early for the show, so we wandered around the grounds for a bit, checking out all the monkeys in their cages. For some inexplicable reason, the monkey school also houses chickens, a snake, an alligator, and a porcupine. While we were looking at those, we passed a little shower room where the monkeys were getting washed up for the show. After being shampooed and rinsed, the monkey and his handler trotted on down to the theatre:





Two monkeys performed in the show, a boy and a girl. You could tell which was which because the girl monkey wore a little bow on her head. The monkeys did push-ups and flips in the air, played guitars, twirled fire sticks, ate soup with spoons, played basketball, and posed for lots of pictures.


The boy monkey


The girl monkey










Bella and Auntie Jody


What William thought of the show

How Isabella felt about the monkeys: