Hundreds of monkeys come down from mountain

Hundreds of monkeys come down from mountain
Karangasem today reported hundreds of monkeys have been seen along the Sang Hyang Ambu road in Bubug, Karangasem. Many tourists and local stopped their vehicle a moment just to see them and throw some bread, corns or peanuts to the group of the monkeys- it becomes a new attraction along these road beside a lovely natural panoramic. These monkeys have come down from Gumang Mountain to Bubug Village and believe as a sacred monkey (druwe).

Villagers assumed this phenomenon because of longer-dry season this year. They believed hunger has pushed these monkeys came down to the village to get food. More then 200 monkeys has been seen walking in group, come down from the mountain every morning and climb up again in the afternoon since few days ago.

" These are the biggest migrant of those monkeys as far as I knew, last year we just saw no more then six monkeys came down in the dry season, but now they come hundreds in number," I Wayan Mas Suyasa, Bugbug Villager, says.

"Even they come in huge group, until today there's no report that they destroy villagers' fields. Those sacred monkeys come down because of they are hungry, they will stay here from morning until noon and in the afternoon they will be back to the mountain."

Mas also mention that community board in Bubug has socialized to community not to disturb those sacred monkeys in order to protect them from disappear -because Bubug Village had lose wild buffalo in their area in 1960s.