Drive a couple hours from the fascinating city of Fes and you’ll get to the Middle Atlas Mountains. There in the foothills lie such historic cities as Sefrou and Bhalil, and, in the mountains themselves, “Africa’s Little Switzerland,” Ifrane. And Barbary macaque monkeys. All over the place. These adorable if aggressive creatures, Africa’s only super-Saharan apes, are surprisingly well adapted to the cold — and surprisingly at home among people. I arrived at the entrance to the Cèdre Gouraud Forest and there they were, waiting for me, jumping on my car, and even jumping into it to grab a snack.
Good thing they’re so cute.
