Monkeyland KZN – Durban Ballito – The world’s first free roaming multi-species primate sanctuary

The Tour

Roughly two hours in length, it begins with a brief drive through 4×4, stopping on the major gates to the indigenous forest and primate enclosure. Your information offers you a briefing together with guidelines that should be adopted to make this a protected expertise for each you and the primates. The guides do have a depraved sense of humour and had us in stitches all through the tour. My private view is that the guides themselves actually did add one thing particular to the expertise and there’s a clear sense that they’re obsessed with what they do, educated, and decided to make sure you have the very best expertise.

You’re taken by way of the sanctuary and in the event you’re fortunate sufficient to have booked your tour at a feeding time, you’re in for an actual deal with.

This can be a actually eye-opening dive into how these primates are being threatened, the realities they face, and what’s being accomplished to guard them. Your information will share tales of a few of the residents within the sanctuary and the way they took place being there. The Capuchin monkey is a naughty fellow however if you hear his story, you can not assist however love his cheeky nature and respect why he’s the way in which he’s.

However, it’s not a tour of doom and gloom and also you’ll study some fascinating info about these particular primates, for instance, the howler monkey can scent fruit from 2km away and it’s stated to be the loudest monkey (we will attest to that!). However we’re not giving all of it away, you’ll need to make the go to your self. We don’t need to spoil the enjoyable.