Qianling, Guiyang's famous monkey park
Guiyang is full of great natural beauty. The city has excellent parks everywhere you go and has made a real effort to conserve open space even as it has developed significantly over the past decade. Some of the parks are new, but some of them are quite old. Last month, I visited one of the older ones: Qianling park, named after Qianling mountain. It's one of the most well-known mountains in Southern Guizhou, and the park itself is known all over China for its population of Macaque monkeys. The mountain is almost completely covered in forest, making it a prime habitat for them. I'm not sure exactly how many live in the park. I would guess it's in the hundreds. They are everywhere along the paths, and they aren't shy around humans at all. This shouldn't be a surprise, since you can feed them nuts and fruit that you can buy from vendors outside the park. They'll take food from your hand, but I wouldn't recommend it. They can be very aggressive, and I saw mo...