It was sunny again this morning so we headed to Monkey Park. We had so much fun there last year, so we were excited to show Tom around.

The first enclosure was the squirrel monkeys who were just as cute and cheeky as ever. You’re given a big bag of mixed food when you enter, so it’s easiest to just hold the bag up to the monkeys and let them route through to find which food they like to eat. The monkeys seemed quite sleepy at this time of day. They have really cold hands and feet. Mum thinks they smell like Wotsits, so we told her that’s why their hands were so yellow.

The lemurs were in the next enclosure. I love their tails. The lizards live in the same enclosure, as do the turtles.

Next we went to see the monkeys and chimps which were too dangerous to be in the same cage with. The chimps were blowing kisses at us and trying to catch the food in their mouths. One of them shook it’s head at my throwing and walked away after several failed attempts.

The basic idea behind Monkey Park is… if it moves, feed it.

It was our last day in Tenerife today so we headed back to our favourtie place on the island… Monkey Park!

We went first thing in the morning, so the animals were wide awake and very hungry. This time we took bananas for the lemurs because they’re not interested in any of the nuts and seeds you get in the bag. One was eating a piece of corn before we came and dropped it as soon as it spotted the banana.

There was a really cute baby monkey with big eyes. Some of the monkeys had developed their own language to talk to each other.

One of the squirrel monkeys stole my Mum’s bag of food. When it had eaten all the things it liked it dropped the bag and we got it back.

We spent nearly two hours visiting the monkeys today and it was so hard to say goodbye to them. On the way out I spotted a crocodile I hadn’t noticed before. I didn’t try to feed it.