Luxury dinner haute cuisine (read: canned vegetables and a banana)
Today we take a day off. We hang around a bit and read and sleep, all quite relaxed. It’s rainy today, and once in a while a monkey passes the window. Sometimes we see their heads passing the window and try to get a glimpse of these strange animals in this hotelroom.
As this hotel complex of buildings is deserted, the monkeys take a stroll around. Ramon tries to give the monkeys some bread, and after a while they just take it from his hands!
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| Feeding a vervet monkey |
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| The green river bank, close to the only hotel in Niokolo, hotel Simenti |
At six in the evening we decide that we want to leave the hotel, we ask for the bill and then we were stunned. As expected this canned meal had the price of a luxury dinner and they counted 2 nights. We had to leave the room before 12 they said. ‘Does it matter in an empty hotel’ I asked.
It did somehow, so we decided to stay, as it is quite expensive. I complained that they had noone else who would rent this room, but that is probably the whole problem. We decided to check out the great animal viewpoint for some time and that night we cooked our own dinner, which was way, WAY better then our cool 3 course meal from yesterday.