Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Bring in the tigers!



So at the risk of being less creative, but more expedient, I give you the quick story of my visit to the Tiger Temple. It’s a temple, there are tigers and here are the photos. OK, I can do a bit better than that…

About 2 hours outside of Bangkok there is a temple where the story goes something like this – 10 years ago someone left an abandoned tiger cub. They monks raised it and over the years their brood has expand to include some 8-10 tigers and several tiger cubs. In fact they have the highest birth rate for tigers in captivity in the world, a feat to which they attribute the tigers’ happiness living with the monks.


The most unique part of the experience of visiting Tiger Temple is that you can in fact interact with, feed and cuddle these beasts. It was beyond surreal and by far the coolest thing I have seen and done in Thailand. See for yourself:

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