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i was surprised, albeit very gratefully, when i came across the monkeys in alishan as i didn't expect to find them in that area. the same cannot be said for these guys who i encountered while walking around shoushan in kaohsiung, or as it's commonly known, monkey mountain. i travelled to kaohsiung in the south of taiwan directly after my time in alishan, and to be honest i was feeling pretty exhausted from the early mornings and long forest walks. i kinda wanted to just take it easy, but no matter how little energy i have, if you present me with something called monkey mountain, i'm gonna try and climb it. there was quite a large network of walking trails once you started to ascend, but the monkeys welcomed me early on and hung around while i rested at a tea station. incidentally there were a few tea stations on the mountain, which offers free tea and drinking water to hikers, where the water is delivered to the stations by volunteers lugging heavy jerrycans up the mountain. a cool, altruistic part of taiwanese culture

here's another monkey photo, and you can see more on my instagram post