Easy, tiger!
Wow!! I'm in Thailand! Basically as soon as I got here on Monday evening, I was gone again. I signed up for a two-day trip to Kanchanaburi, a couple hours away, that left at a little after 6 Tuesday morning. I was with five other supercool people from my hostel -- four Norwegians and an Australian. And our guide, Jolie, was pretty cool, too.
One of the more exciting things we got to do was pet tigers! There were a bunch of them at a tiger monastery and we walked into the enclosed area with someone from the monastery while another staff member took our pictures with our cameras. Very nice! And we got to pet three or four tigers each. They´re so beautiful! And the monastery had a million different kinds of animals. We also got to see these two cute little tiger cubs playing. And there were buffalo, cows, deer, pigs, chickens, horses, peakocks, you name it -- all running around together. Pretty neat.
We also got to ride elephants (pictures tk), shop on a floating market, visit the bridge over the River Kwai, climb an impossibly tall waterfall -- and swim in it, with the fishes!
Overall it was an amazing trip. I put some pics up and will work on finishing that up. The past two days were spent in Bangkok. HUGE city. The temples are very gold. And the buddhas are very big. Except for the emerald buddha, which was surprisingly small. I got totally lost both days. Drivers taking me/us to the wrong places, etc. But it all worked out. Tomorrow I´m off to the beach. Yay!
One of the more exciting things we got to do was pet tigers! There were a bunch of them at a tiger monastery and we walked into the enclosed area with someone from the monastery while another staff member took our pictures with our cameras. Very nice! And we got to pet three or four tigers each. They´re so beautiful! And the monastery had a million different kinds of animals. We also got to see these two cute little tiger cubs playing. And there were buffalo, cows, deer, pigs, chickens, horses, peakocks, you name it -- all running around together. Pretty neat.
We also got to ride elephants (pictures tk), shop on a floating market, visit the bridge over the River Kwai, climb an impossibly tall waterfall -- and swim in it, with the fishes!
Overall it was an amazing trip. I put some pics up and will work on finishing that up. The past two days were spent in Bangkok. HUGE city. The temples are very gold. And the buddhas are very big. Except for the emerald buddha, which was surprisingly small. I got totally lost both days. Drivers taking me/us to the wrong places, etc. But it all worked out. Tomorrow I´m off to the beach. Yay!
posted by Mer @ 1/27/2006 08:31:00 AM
1 Comments:
At 1/27/2006 2:49 PM,
Anonymous said…
yay for tigers. i really love the baby tiger pics!
have fun at the beach!
mbs
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