Doing a road trip up north to the Burkina Faso border and back was amazing. They actually are used to being fed by humans. One dared to reach all the way to my mouth to snatch a mushy lump of fruit.
Monkeys are such delightful, curious animals.
Curious not like Curious George, necessarily, but they make me curious about them. In most cases, interacting with the locals was a blast. We would stop along the side of a road in a town, with the intention of buying bread or fixing some problem with one of the vehicles, or getting Uncle Nick some fish, and be flocked suddenly with hordes of children and minor hordes of adults, curious, begging for money, or wanting to sell something from a tray on their heads. We found that the best way to deal with a large number of children all hankering for us to give them something was to play with them. They love funny body language games, like sticking out tongues and making them move side to side by pulling on the ears.