Longleat Safari - will my car be destroyed?
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akirk said:
R8Steve said:
That is the training video - shown to all new monkeys on arrival at Longleat 
It is a Longleat car (hence Safari numberplate), not a customer car...
we went through behind a VW camper with 3 surfboards and a box on the roof - not much left by the time they came out!
So pick a more interesting car to follow
Tonker,
If you bring mountain bikes with you there is a new track right by Longleat https://www.ibikeride.com/england/2010-longleat-fo...
Or if that is a bit too much there is also the forest which you can cycle round at a slower/easier pace
Both within a mile of the entrance to Longleat
If you bring mountain bikes with you there is a new track right by Longleat https://www.ibikeride.com/england/2010-longleat-fo...
Or if that is a bit too much there is also the forest which you can cycle round at a slower/easier pace
Both within a mile of the entrance to Longleat
Heh I worked there many years ago, yes IN the monkey drive through amongst other park areas (we'd get rotated through the sections)
You'd always noticed te people that fed the monkeys, they'd be the car you couldn't see for monkeys...
Place used to look like a breakers yard, maybe it's different now but then (mid 80's) you'd see stuff like. Aerials, wing mirrors, headlights, exhausts, bumpers. It was really quite amazing what they could take off a car. Once a month or so we'd trundle around in a flat bed and pick up all the scrap parts
Classics from memory were:
Chavvy youngsters full of attitude in a mk3 Cortina, with a vinyl roof, the monkeys loved that! They came out minus the roof and other bits sans attitude, I almost felt sorry for them.
The other standout memory that summer was the German camper van that went in with a roof box, filled with clothes. Until you've sen a monkey racing around wearing a frilly white nighty and being chased by about 20 others, you've seen nothing.
The flat bed came out that day too, was like a jumble sale
You'd always noticed te people that fed the monkeys, they'd be the car you couldn't see for monkeys...
Place used to look like a breakers yard, maybe it's different now but then (mid 80's) you'd see stuff like. Aerials, wing mirrors, headlights, exhausts, bumpers. It was really quite amazing what they could take off a car. Once a month or so we'd trundle around in a flat bed and pick up all the scrap parts
Classics from memory were:
Chavvy youngsters full of attitude in a mk3 Cortina, with a vinyl roof, the monkeys loved that! They came out minus the roof and other bits sans attitude, I almost felt sorry for them.
The other standout memory that summer was the German camper van that went in with a roof box, filled with clothes. Until you've sen a monkey racing around wearing a frilly white nighty and being chased by about 20 others, you've seen nothing.
The flat bed came out that day too, was like a jumble sale
Went on Sunday and arrived for around 10.30
Stayed until around 6 and saw most things except inside of the house. It's a good day out I think. Better than Whipsnade Zoo, for example.
The monkeys loved our car but didn't bite or chew anything off. They're mostly quite small. I've seen much bigger monkeys in India which I definitely wouldn't take my car near.
Stayed until around 6 and saw most things except inside of the house. It's a good day out I think. Better than Whipsnade Zoo, for example.
The monkeys loved our car but didn't bite or chew anything off. They're mostly quite small. I've seen much bigger monkeys in India which I definitely wouldn't take my car near.
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