Funky Monkey Lodge

Hola! Com esta??  so since my last entry last week Im still here at the Funky Monkey Hostel , its a great place with good people and its the 1st place Ive felt safe and relaxed in. The guys who work here are great craic, 2 from Argentina, 1 from ...

... bank in coordinating a robbery. Such signs are indicative of the safety situation in a given country. Pizza for lunch again at the Funky Monkey, followed by a nap, as I didn't sleep so well last night at the Fawlty Towers due to the throb of a base ...

... just a place for hippies to sell their junk...). The first night we all went out for dinner and then to a bar called the Funky Monkey, which became packed with every drunk person in town.  By the end of the night, everyone was dancing on tables ...

... 'dead fish tower'. Another disappointment, seeing as we both got gone off fruit juice and extremely salty food dishes. We all moved onto funky monkey for a pub quiz, which turned out to be so hard, at least our team wasnt anywhere near last, and we had a ...

... . It looks as if we have no choice but staying in Nelspruit. Since we are in the backpacker's mood, we go and look for the Funky Monkey, at hostel in one of the guides we got this morning. We find it and it looks crappy. AND no double rooms left, only ...

... my spartan room tonight is costing me $35 a night. In the afternoon, after having a passable pizza for lunch at the Funky Monkey, I visited the travel agent at Fawlty Towers to see if I could join some kind of overland tour through Botswana to ...

... the clouds often enough to give us all a bit of red to prove we’d been sunbums. On the trip also was Monkey Island’s owner, “Mickey”, a middle-aged Thai well into the beach party scene. With sarong and dreadlocks, he looked like ...

... .  He picked us up at 7:30 this morning and off we went for yet another adventure.  Today’s animal sightings included a monkey near the lobby of the hotel, two ostrich’s mating (I guess there’s not much else to do in the ...

... monorail right around the island. Next on the agenda was the monkey show, after which we both had our photo taken with a monkey - just to show that there were no hard feelings after our 'attack'!!!!! We didn't bother going to Underwater World and ...

... prayed and sang loudly when introducing me to the various well known trees.  The Kauri tree is a magnificent conifer related to our monkey puzzle tree.  It is ancient and has both the male and female cones on one tree.  After the female ...

... feeding, we saw one of the most heartwarming sights ever. The mother orangutan, already full and having fed her baby, noticed a mother monkey looking for food with its baby on her back. The orangutan actually gave a bunch of bananas to the monkey so the ...

... also took time to pay homage to Burlington's monkeys. Silhouettes of something right out of the Wizard of Oz, this flying monkey cast iron figures are a little creepy looking but only add charm to the old Union Station.  Burlington we learned ...

... icon within the city. The museum was filled with tons of cat -isms and folklore from all cultures, as well as some funky relics including a mummified cat from ancient Egypt. We took a trip to Bako National Park, where we saw plenty of proboscis monkeys ...

... we spot some kudus, before catching hippos just getting out of the water to sun themselves on rocks by the river. Then catch a spotted blue monkey eating a banana on the side of the road. As we drive along, I scout one side of the vehicle and Michelle the ...

... That said, as one wag said to me, "Stick with the Muslim or Hindu restaurants over the Chinese - that way you find a monkey toe in your meal."  This is not much of an exageration; the Chinese will eat anything and any part of anything. I ...

... bananas thrown to them by group members. I filmed a little bit and got some good footage of the Spider Monkey in particular. We returned to the lodge satisified of having seen monkeys on Monkey Island. After dinner, our group went on a canoe downstream ...

... some relics, including signs saying "Welcome to the Monkey’s Island" (just one monkey owns this whole island?) and “Monkey’s view point”…the latter we were guessing meant where the monkeys watch us, not the other way ...

... "that's what we did in Russia", I guess my parents do have it right every now and again. It was my turn to be entertainment monkey for the Sherpa crew that night and, despite, or perhaps aided by, the rhythm pounding in my skull, I grabbed hold of the ...

... the Horton National Park. I am hoping to hear a Who. 7 March I heard a WHO! I believe the who I heard was a Shaggy Bear monkey but I can’t confirm this as I only heard it’s whoooo sound coming from the patch of jungle off the track at Horton ...

... vocal cords is the worlds largest rodent and liked to pretend it was a dog, liking its ears stroked!, there was also a spider monkey they named peco who sat on my lap whilst i had lunch and cheekily stole food off everyone elses plate before pissing over ...