Kanchanaburi Part II: Tiger Temple

Yep, that's right! We visited a tiger temple!  It was a pretty cool thing, but very touristy.  There were tons of people, and I had to wait in a long line to even enter the area the tigers were in.  Once I entered their region, I had to be dragged around by my wrist, like I was some kind of child, to each tiger, where the staff of the attraction snapped a series of five or so shots of me in one pose. 

I touched about three tigers, but it wasn't great.  I didn't get to stroke them or anything, I just laid my hands on them.  It was actually a scary thing.  I was in danger the entire time.  If for any reason the tiger decided to turn around and eat me, it could have!  But, I was lucky to be in the hands of so many caring professionals.  They made sure I didn't do anything that would anger or scare the tiger.  Most of them were really cute.  But there were some that I could tell were on the ornery side.  Yikes!!

At the end of the day, we found a wonderful Indian restaurant.  It made me forget that I was some tiger's territory.  I ordered one too many lassis, which is a smoothie in

Indian language.  But they were so scrumptious.  We all enjoyed our overly sized and overly priced meals.  It was a wonderful occasion.

After I had the opportunity to pose with the tigers, we got to walk with them and pose with them, too.  We were warned, however, that if the tiger lifts it's tail, it would mean it was urinating.  I didn't really pay much attention to this detail, I figured wasn't very important.  But, it was a good thing I heard this because sure enough, I was the very lucky person to receive the

spray of the tiger male.  Leah did, too.  Her situation was worse: she got sprayed in the mouth!! She was right next to me.  It took everything in my being not to react too strongly to what had happened.  It was my turn next, as I looked at the camera man and forced a smile on my face.  I was worried about how I would smell for the rest of the day.

Oh well!!  Ashley was stoked for some odd reason, she really wanted to be the one to get peed on by the tiger.  She's funny. But, hey, I got to touch tigers! How awesome is that?

The end of our day was celebrated by trying some overly priced Indian food.  It was worth every single baht :)