Colubus Monkeys at the famous Trout Tree Restaurant, Kenya

 

 Built of the banks of the Burguret River, below Mount Kenya, the Trout Tree Restaurant is a wonderful lunch stopover as your driving from Aberdare to Samburu. The restaurant is built around a huge fig tree, giving you the experience of eating in a treehouse. Down below the round pools of the trout farm teem with fish. And up above black and white colobus monkeys jump from branch to branch.


 We had seen one of these rare monkeys the day before on our drive through Aberdare Mountain national park. But now was our chance to get up close and personal to the fluffy, skunk-colored monkeys. We were able to feed a few of the braver monkeys, including one with an all white, week old baby. The baby clutched defiantely to its mom's stomach, although it did cram its next around to check all of us out.

   Erica got to show off her amazing trout preparing skills. She shocked everyone by deftly reaching in to her trout and cleanly pulling out all of the bones, still attached. The arcing fish skeleton made a nice centerpiece for out delicious meal.

  The rains camed down hard during the meal, but cleared up just in time for our monkey experience after. James had to pull us away from the curious monkeys as we still had a long way to go to reach Samburu National Reserve that evening.