Monkey business!
Monkeys - they're really cute and fun little creatures aren't they? Well that's what I thought too until I came to Sri Lanka!They have to be the messiest and most mischievous animals ever - nothing they like better than ripping rubbish bags to shreds and showering the surrounding area with garbage! When I first moved into my flat just outside Colombo I loved the fact that my back garden led on to a large space of mini-jungle where monkeys leapt across the highest branches of the coconut trees. How exotic, I thought! Of course after a couple of months of them liberally decorating my walls with rubbish and hurling king coconuts through my windows it didn't seem like such a great attraction!A little known fact is monkeys appreciation for lipstick and make-up. A girl I visited a hotel with in Polonnuruwa made the mistake of leaving the room window open for a second. She returned a few...
