05 Jan 2025
The guide didn’t smile once, was incredibly quiet, and honestly quite unhelpful. In fact, there wasn’t much for him to guide anyway — just having a driver would have sufficed and saved us some money. He didn’t communicate the schedule properly, and we only ended up eating lunch at 3:30 PM after we asked if it was possible to stop, as he didn’t seem inclined to bring it up himself.
We did see monkeys and a mangrove, but the location felt strange. I noticed a sign on the left side of the road for the entrance to Jozani Forest, but instead, we turned right and stopped on a dusty road to take pictures of some monkeys there. It was odd, and it made me wonder what happened to the entrance fee for Jozani Forest, which was supposedly included in the tour. Into someone’s pocket, perhaps?
As for the snorkeling spot, it was disappointing, with almost nothing to see.
In the end, I wouldn’t have complained if the tour hadn’t been so expensive.