Spotting golden lion tamarins for free near one of Brazil’s most popular beach resorts
Hi all,
I recently learned of and visited this free alternative to Pocos das Antas reserve, Parque Municipal do Mico Leao Dourado, which has its own population of golden lion tamarins. As information on the web about this place is incredibly limited, I wrote this blog post with info on how to visit as well as how to get there (because the thing is, if you follow Google Maps, you’ll end up going down a road that doesn’t exist).
https://shoestringsafari.com/the-golden-monkeys-of-buzios/
As I am, quite literally, happy to help, ask any questions or let me know if I’ve missed anything in the comments below!
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Shaun
Hi Rob, yeah, having read that part of your report I was wondering if I’d just be met with a locked gate – so this trip was pretty much winged! Hopefully this means more mammal watchers can visit in the future and see this amazing species!
(PS apologies about the late reply, been tied up with travel over here!)
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Evan
Hi Shaun! I can’t seem to load your website right now, and for some reason even the archived versions on the Wayback Machine are only showing me a blank page. Do you know what’s up? If the website is down permanently, maybe you could share a copy of this article? Would love to browse through the rest of your blog though – sounds right up my alley.
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Shaun
Hi Evan, yes, sorry about that, been having some complications with domain hosting – it should be back up and running by September 7th if the service emails are to be believed, I can only touch wood that that’s true!
Anyway, here’s a link to a first draft I wrote up in Google Docs – besides the absence of images, it’s pretty close to what I published: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v6UhARzHe0h5EPObsITPuxm0UawVHzJ1xFYSc_9akhw/edit?usp=sharing
Any follow-up questions, feel free to ask on here!
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Evan
Thanks so much for the reply! I gave it a read – that’s helpful! I understand that I have to arrive on the road coming in from the west, but now getting mixed messages on whether I get to that road from the north or the south (either one I guess?). Actually they told me they’re not open this week, but I’m probably going to try tomorrow to see if I can find the monkeys in the surrounding forest. If I’m reading the trip reports correctly, it seems like others have seen them at the southern entrance to the forest.
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Evan
Hey – yes, we not only got okay views (quick record shots) at one point along the road from the south, but then lucked out and got an informal tour of the park anyway from the park guard, who came to see what we were doing around the entrance. We didn’t walk the trails, but he and his buddy found a troupe at the edge of the park and started feeding them (not our preferred method, but we did get great views). I’ve written up a detailed trip report that I’ll hopefully be able to share here soon. Big thanks to your post for having attracted my attention to this place!
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Rob Jansen
Very nice to hear it has evolved a bit more since our visit, and that there were actually guides to show visitors around. We wrote about it in our trip report from a few months back, but then they were still building the whole visitor center. Lovely place!