A couple weeks ago we arrived in Chiang Mai, Thailand, by train. After a few days of getting settled in the city, we took a tuk tuk, a small, open-air taxi thing, out about 17 kilometers outside of the city to the Chiang Mai tiger park. There, for an exorbitant price, you could go face to face with tigers and actually pet them inside their enclosures. We started out by meeting the young six month old tigers. It was thrilling and a bit scary to be up so close to such an amazing and powerful animal..... I mean really, they could rip you apart if they wanted.
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| me with a 6 month old tiger |
Next before we left we decided to look at the other tigers, though we couldn't go in with them unless we got more tickets for it. Well, when we saw the baby tigers, we decided that we had to go in and pet them, so we had to get more tickets. They were
adorable.
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| me with a baby (1 month old) |
In all it was an okay trip out there, although getting there was not half the fun, in a tuk tuk on the car fumed road. It also seemed that the staff could be a tad cruel at times to the tigers, bugging them and shoving them around so the tourists could pet them. A word of advice..... if you are in Chiang Mai, and go see the tigers, only visit the baby ones.
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