The Monkeys of Iwatayama, Japan

This is a wooded mountain in Arashiyama, near Kyoto, home to more than 200 Japanese macaque monkeys, a nice reprieve after a few days of temple-hopping.

If I ever saw a bunch of happy monkeys, it was there. The animals have a few dozen acres to roam around, and are free to come and go as they please — they can visit the surrounding mountains; they prefer to stick around: free food and medical care, plus an opportunity to see humans enclosed in a caged refreshment room.

Pictures © 2002 by J.Andrzej Wrotniak.
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Technical info: Olympus Camedia E-20 digital camera, some pictures taken with the 1.4x lens attachment; Image postprocessing with Corel Photo-Paint.

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