Friday 18 March 2011

Tiger Temple (Kanchanaburi, Thailand - 10/03)

Wat Luang Ta Bua Yanna Sampanno also called the Tiger Temple is a monastery
which has the objectives to propagate Buddhism and to conserve forests and
wildlife. The first tiger cub arrived here in 1999 after its mother was
killed by poachers. The temple cares now for several orphaned tigers.

As you can see below from the entrance, this is, now, a tourist-orientated attraction:
Get some shots with baby tigers:
Some teenagers are playing in the water:
If you pay extra, you can play with them too:
You can touch several adult tigers (strangely they are all tired, got drug injected?), but for safety reasons, you have to hold the hand of employee of the temple between each tiger:
And there is a lot of other species of animals, like in a free-ranged zoo:

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