Jozani National Park, Zanzibar
Heavy rain began to fall early in the morning. When I woke up at 8 a.m., the rain was weaker, but it was still falling. Considering that we were going to return to Dar es Salaam tomorrow as planned, the emperor left the village women to visit Stone City, bring their own umbrellas, and brave the rain to go to jozani National Forest Park to photograph red wart monkeys.
The 324 Dadala in the direction of Yozani is still waiting at the open-air bus station in front of the market, and the fare is 1000-2000 shillings (2000 for the way, only 1000 for the return, according to our experience in these days, the fare is up to 1500), and the whole journey takes about 1 hour. Since this kind of car must wait for people to sit full before leaving, it should be reserved for about 1 hour of waiting time.
The first time he rode the Dadala, the Emperor did not understand the fact that the roof of such a car was so short (people could only squat inside), and today he has completely understood it. It turns out that in addition to soliciting customers, another important task of this type of car is to pull goods. Locals travel with them a lot of things, from bicycles, sacks of rice noodles, large bundles of firewood and large bunches of bananas, all the way to fine and soft offal. Many times I do not leave, but entrust a lot of things to the driver to carry, the goods naturally have someone to pay. Therefore, the carport is designed to be very low because if it is too high, it will be very laborious to load and unload the goods.
Because of the large number of goods, this car is equipped with at least two strong male flight attendants. They are not only responsible for selling tickets, but also loading and unloading goods.
Although the truck was modified, the rainproof facilities were also complete, and the flight attendant put down the plastic rainproof cloth on both sides of the box, and the people inside were insulated from the rain.
Another great feature of this type of car is that it can get on and off passengers at any time. It doesn't matter, but if you encounter a passenger with more than enough things, it will delay a lot of time, because in this case, the car will drive directly to the passenger's door to unload.
Therefore, riding Daladala is a very test of patience, but fortunately, we are already used to it.
At approximately 10:10 the bus arrives at Yozani National Park. The national parks here are not as tightly packed as prisons in China, for fear of someone escaping tickets. If it weren't for the flight attendant's reminder, the emperor really wouldn't have seen it. After getting out of the car, I saw a small wooden sign standing on the side of the road on the left side of the road, which read the words Ofzhani National Forest Park. Walk about 100 meters along the dirt road next to the wooden sign and see several houses, where the park ticket office is located. Foreigners 10,000 shillings per person, give an invoice.
After buying a ticket, walk back to the road, cross the road and walk along the dirt road for about 50 meters to see the red colobus monkey. The emperor found that it was easy to evade the ticket. Get out of the car and walk directly into the dirt road on the right side of the road.
The scientific name of the red colobus monkey is the red colobus monkey, and some people simply call it the red monkey, the English name is red colobus, and the Swahili name is kimapunju. It is said that about 10,000 years ago, the island of Zanzibar was separated from the African continent, and the red monkeys on the island began their own independent evolutionary process, perhaps because of the isolation, and the Zanzibar red colobus monkey eventually evolved into a separate species unlike any other colobus monkey anywhere else in the world. The total number of red colobus monkeys on the island is currently about 2,500, more than half of which live in Yozani National Park.
Red colobus monkeys are generally 40–70 cm long, weigh 5–10 kg, are active, prefer to live in groups, and live by eating the young leaves and fruits of trees.
The back of the red colobus monkey is covered with golden red bright and bright hairs
His shoulders were covered with long white hairs, and his face had a ring of white hairs that ran all the way down to his chin, and he looked like a general wearing red and gold armor, white epaulettes on his shoulders, and flowing silver hair.
Its abdomen is also white
The limbs of the red colobus monkey are unique in color, only black and white.
The red colobus monkey has a long tail, which helps to maintain its balance during the jump.
Red colobus monkeys like to live in groups
Looking at its face, it should have some kind of blood relationship with humans.
The red colobus monkeys in Jozani Park are the essence of the Red Colobus monkey population on Sang Island. Therefore, if you come to Zanzibar and can't kiss Fangze, you will leave a lifetime of regrets.
Perhaps because of the frequent visits of tourists, red colobus monkeys are very contemptuous of humans, and they are not only not shy to see people, but also have no basic etiquette. The fights that should be fought, the intimate intimacy, and some will deliberately flirt with tourists.
Due to the rain, the long hairs on the body were tied into a strand, which affected the beauty.
The best thing to watch is the red colobus monkey jumping in the air. This is a preparatory action, telling the viewer: even if you want to jump.
Jump!
Look at this aerial posture, it is simply a missile.
Halfway? Want to see a joke about a puppet? No way!
The revolution has not yet succeeded, and the monkeys still need to work hard. This even understands.
Victory beckons to the puppet, and the dawn is ahead.
Landing. What reward do you take for the doll, dear friend?
The rain did not stop, and the emperor had to hold up the umbrella in his left hand and take pictures with the camera in his right hand. Various postures of the monkeys were recorded, and the monkeys were photographed with the continuous shooting function.
Dear ones, you still came stupidly and persistently, especially the Rat Emperor. Even good touch, fate, thank you!
Somehow, the monkeys, though lively, were always silent.
Because of the rain, not many people came to see the monkeys today. After more than ten minutes, all the scenes that should be seen have been seen. The Emperor took to the road, intercepted a Daladala, and headed back to Stone City.
On both sides of the road are large shrubs that supposedly can be completely reclaimed into farmland, and somehow all of them are abandoned. In Tanzania and Zanzibar, we hardly saw agricultural machinery, not even a tractor. Farmers cultivate their land entirely by hand, and their main crops are bananas, papayas, red snakes, shallots, sugar cane, coconut potatoes, sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes and so on.
It was raining all day today. After the emperor returned, he and the village women walked around the ancient city with umbrellas, and after visiting the ancient city, they entered the Internet café to spread blogs, and today's signal was very good, and the work was quite smooth. After finishing the work, the two of them hugged each other and visited the small shops in the city, and found that the things here were very expensive. The village women sighed that Nepal is still good, and there are many varieties of good prices.