The nursery is located in the city of Sukhum on the slope of Trapezium Mountain. Very beautiful scenic area, lots of greenery. The territory is large, but to climb high, a long staircase up, at least there are benches, you can take a break. The reserve itself seemed clean enough, there is no strong smell, of course there is something to fix, repair, but this is at every step in Abkhazia. Tickets are relatively inexpensive, you can buy food, but it's better to take your own. Monkeys are happy to ask for sweets, you just have to give them carefully, grab them hard. The nursery was originally built for the purpose of experiments on primates to study human diseases. Subsequently, a research institute was founded on the basis of the nursery in 1958, which in Soviet times became the center of primatology and a scientific base for combating oncological diseases. During the fighting, the nursery was severely damaged, but the material base and people managed to be preserved, even despite the lack of salaries. The monkeys were fed corn and products from their own gardens. Previously, there were about 2,000 individuals in the nursery, of which only 37 remained in 1994. This is one of the disadvantages of our visit, a small number of monkeys and all of them are practically only two species, macaques and hamadryas. The staff is quite calm about feeding, it is better to arrive before lunch, the primates are more active and funny. After lunch, they mostly rest, they can hide from the heat, you won't see. In general, the trip turned out to be quite interesting. One visit is probably enough for adults. If with children, then they will definitely be interested.

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Екатерина Короткова

Level 4 Local Expert

One of the places worth visiting in Sukhumi, but the disadvantage is that there is little variety of species. That is, you can go through the building with cages, which will be to the left of the entrance (from the stairs) and consider that you have already seen more than half of the views. There are a couple more species on the right side of the entrance, and so mostly the monkeys repeat themselves. You can also feed the monkeys, but be careful, one of them almost bit my finger. I don't know what about other visitors, but when we went to that building with cages (to the left of the entrance) we saw a staircase and of course we went up it) So we went to the other monkeys on the second and third floors. They fed almost everyone and left (I don't even know if it was possible to do that, there was just no one else there). So you can try to get up too.

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Алексей

Level 28 Local Expert

An interesting place, attracts with its history, quite a beautiful territory. There are many monkeys living in cages here, Rhesus macaques are most represented, but there is also some variety. Tickets are relatively cheap, you can buy food, which is also inexpensive and quite a lot. Monkeys, as a rule, are willing to help themselves. The staff does not bother with control, you can walk freely. As in many places, the former scale of the object is visible, but it is almost everywhere here.

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