Peter forgot to add one of the most interesting 30 seconds of our trip to Bari. They call it the Monkey train....Da da da Daa! Sounds crazy right? It was! We were told by friends to bring plenty of peanuts for this event so we came prepared. What we weren't prepared for was the huge long line to get on. Well, line is not quite the right word for it, for there is no such thing in Italy, it was more like a huge mass of aggressive people pushing against each other for 45 minutes. We were finally herded on to, or rather IN to this "train" which was actually several cages linked together on wheels which could drive into the monkey's habitat and stop. Once inside we utilized some little pipes which you could feed peanuts through, allowing the train to safely attract throngs of monkeys without any possibility of a monkey attack. My video begins at this point, and the rest of the video speaks for itself. At some point all the monkeys jump off the train, possibly because they have been tazered, I mean trained to do so. They were very aggressive cute little things, probably due to the fact that they know they have only 30 seconds to shove and push their way to those peanuts. In fact, these lower primates' behavior was much like the behavior of the chaotic, unruly crowd trying to push their way onto the train. Maybe we really did evolve from monkeys!
Notice the little baby monkey hanging onto his mother? Oh, how cute! And there's this monkey next to Nicole that actually gets his whole arm through a little hole in the back. Sorry the video is so spastic, but it reflects the general atmosphere of the ride! I really couldn't tell what I was capturing since the sunlight was so bright, contrasting with the shadow of our completely surrounded train. Watch Pete and I simultaneously trying to help all the kids shove peanuts through the pipes as fast as possible, adding to the general upheaval!
