Cruising the Caribbean -Day 4; Roatan Honduras- Monkey Town

The highlight of Gumbalimba Preservation Park is Monkey town.  To get there you have to go over the Pirate bridge.

The monkeys are in and area that is surrounded by water.  This is for there own protection.  But in this area they are completely free to move about however they want to.  We had to wait to cross the bridge because it was so rickety and narrow.

In the information on the park it listed the area as having spider monkeys, white face monkeys and howler monkeys.

This is the sign when you enter the area.

Also in the area we heard this munching noise and was curious as to what was making it.  They told us that it was the rabbits that were native to the area.  They didn't look like any rabbit I had ever seen before.

I expected them to go to the guides like this one did.

We were told don't go to the monkeys but if they come to you its okay.

 
There was one monkey that was guarding the area where his mate was hanging out.  He ended up giving us the best pictures.

White headed capuchin monkey at Gumbalimba Preservation Park, Roatan Honduras

 I couldn't believe after I turn away and was looking elsewhere he was like phoow now I can relax again.

I was not expecting them to get so friendly with me and my husband.  And I definitely wasn't expecting one to get on me. But she seemed to like my husband better.  They warned us that they usually like going to the taller people. 

As we were leaving we also saw some chickens that were native to the area too.

Wikipedia has this to say about monkeys./White-headed_capuchin
 I was surprised to find out their names is white-headed capuchin because they called them white faced monkeys.

The next day we were in Belise.