Sydney, Australia, residents Flavia McDonald, her husband and their 12-year-old daughter Lorena recently traveled to a popular tourist destination in Indonesia, according to News.com.au<\/a>. The family set off to Bali as a last-minute getaway to celebrate Australian Father\u2019s Day, which was on Sept. 7.<\/p>\n \u201cI had been to Bali many times, but it was a place I had since hesitated about with kids because of Bali belly (a term for traveler\u2019s diarrhea). I thought maybe when [Lorena] was older \u2026 we could enjoy it more,\u201d McDonald told the outlet. \u201cBut in August with so much rain around Sydney, my daughter had the idea of a sunny place for a holiday to give as a Father\u2019s Day gift.\u201d<\/p>\n Seminyak beach in Bali, Indonesia<\/p>\n The family, who departed on Father\u2019s Day morning, stayed in a hotel in Seminyak \u2014 a beach resort area at the southern end of Bali. To avoid the rain already interrupting their trip, they traveled to Ubud on Wednesday, Sept. 10, to visit the famous Monkey Forest Ubud<\/a>.<\/p>\n McDonald explained the family walked around the park for about 40 minutes before sitting with other guests in an amphitheatre.<\/p>\n \u201cHeaps of people were sitting, so my husband and daughter sat there too,\u201d McDonald said. \u201cWe could see monkeys, but none literally on or around people. But within one minute, a monkey jumped on my husband\u2019s shoulders \u2026 and within seconds it went from his shoulder to my daughter\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n She added: \u201cShe was paralyzed [in fear] and we kind of knew we couldn\u2019t make any abrupt movements. So the monkey started pulling at her shirt, her pockets, looking in her top and as I got close to her to shush it away, within five seconds, it just bit her on the neck.\u201d<\/p>\n Getty<\/p>\n A long-tailed macaque monkey<\/p>\n According to the forest\u2019s website, guests are instructed to maintain a safe distance from the monkeys, engage in only supervised interactions, avoid direct eye contact and take care of children \u2014 all of which McDonald claims the family followed.<\/p>\n \u201cI looked down at her neck, and I just said, \u2018Oh my god,\u2019\u201d she remembered. \u201c[Lorena] thought it was a scratch\u2026 but then we saw the bite mark with blood\u2026 The whole thing was just so fast.\u201d<\/p>\n Although the park was busy, the mom said there were no employees nearby. So, the family quickly made their way to the park\u2019s first aid station, where staff dismissed concerns of rabies because the \u201cmonkeys were very clean.\u201d Staff instead bathed the 12-year-old in soap and water.<\/p>\n \u201cShe was bleeding \u2026 and I was just thinking, this is not enough. I was exploding inside,\u201d McDonald said. \u201cAll my research was saying this was very dangerous and that she needs to go to a clinic with the rabies vaccine<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n When they arrived at a nearby clinic, McDonald remembered her daughter was still in \u201cshock.\u201d Lorena received two injections, one into the top of the bite and one at the bottom.<\/p>\n \u201cI have never seen her scream like the way she did in that hospital,\u201d McDonald said of her daughter\u2019s vaccine.<\/p>\n![\"Seminyak](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/25a45cf5201e11120e68fbf0eabcee3b.jpeg\"\/)
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