Jardim Zoological

IN Which I visit the Zoo with my Friends.

This is the Zoo!  It only costs 5mts to get in (that's ~15 cents for you folks playing along at home).

 Beyond the gate is a shady park full of crumbling buildings.  I'm using Shady here to mean both physically shady--lots of nice trees--and Totally Creepy! 

We followed some crumbling sidewalks through knee high grass. Next time I'm bringing my binoculars and a compass.

At this point one of my friends said "I wonder if we have to find the animals ourselves"  She was just joking.

When we found the first animal exhibit we were relieved.  Looks like the animals are in a place that they probably can't get out of.  This is Vervet Monkey Town!

Some more empty cages...

More monkeys!  These monkeys were throwing rocks at each other.

This is the door to their enclosure.  See, they're so happy in these rusty and droopy chain link palaces that they don't even WANT to leave!  We shut it just in case.

The big monkey picked on the baby monkey.  It threw some rocks at it and bit it's tail.  We moved on to another concrete bottom, chain link cage with a sad pacing baboon in it.  Then we realized.....

THE BABY MONKEY WAS FOLLOWING US.

Suddenly, we didn't think it was so funny to wonder if we'd have to find the animals ourselves.

We hoped desperately that there were no longer bears at the Zoo.  

There aren't, thank goodness.  

But there are baboons that will do backflips for a peanut.

We wandered through the countryside for a bit longer.  Really, this zoo is like a giant field dotted with little ponds and crumbling walls.

Here's a pond!  See that sign?



Here's a closeup.  It says.  "Hauling water from here is prohibited!!"

Here's why.  Can you spot the croc?

Here's a separate croc-pond.  This is a Chefe Croc.  That is, a morbidly obese crocodile.

This is the fence that separates the crocs from the humans.  This boy is throwing rocks at ChefeCroc to see if he will move. He didn't.  Just opened and closed his eyes a few times.

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THIS MAN IS HAULING WATER FROM A POND. Oh, but it's okay, there's no crocs here.  that I could see.  He was walking around the zoo watering baby plants.

We found the snake!  I poked it.

Then we went out to a lunch-shack and ate the best best best chicken in peanut sauce that I have ever had in my life.

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