My New Pet, Tim the Tiger

I’m not sure if the leash was strong enough. When Tim the Tiger was tugging on his leash, it was a little scary when I realized how powerful he was.  For all of you who know how huge my head is, look at my head, then look how big one of his paws are in the photo. When I was petting the other tigers, my whole body got tossed around even when holding just one of their paws.

Touch the tiger Eun Mi! When I crept up behind her when she was looking at one of the other tigers, she jumped up about 5 feet in the air. It was amazing.

The Tiger Temple in Thailand was about 2 1/2 hours from Bangkok by taxi or bus, and cost 500 baht to get there, and 500 baht to get in the “temple.” I saw the best photo opp ever on the way to the temple – 4 Thai guys laying (sort of kneeling) on top of a garbage truck  hanging on for their dear life flying down the highway at about 80 mph. They definately would’ve flown off the truck with one little slip. They all had the biggest smiles on their faces. I enjoyed the moment, but was too slow with the camera.

The Tiger Temple was really more of a giant petting zoo, but with legitimate tigers – about 20 of them I think. They also had a leopard along with other animals that weren’t as interesting.

The grounds were huge ….. probably took 30 minutes to walk from one end to the other. It was nice how they tried to keep the area as natural of a habitat as possible.

Beware of $1,000 baht tourist trap photos and similar gigs to get you to pay to feed baby tigers. The best part was walking around with a tiger on a leash, and that was free – just ask one of the guys that look like monks.

Poor things. Future tiger food.