Tiger Kingdom Chiang Mai

Zuerst waren wir bei einer Affenshow, die im Reisefuehrer empfohlen wurde... einmal und nie wieder...den Rest koennt Ihr euch sicher denken... wir hatten uns eigentlich ein Resort vorgestellt, in dem Affen trainiert werden und man mehr ueber die Tiere lernt und nicht eine Showeinlage zur Touristenbelustigung...

Danach waren wir bei einer …

I arrived in Thailand all good and safe. Now our build doesn't start until tomorrow, so today I had the chance to explore the city. Our hotel is in a fabulous location very close to tons of shops, restaurants, and tons of taxi drivers willing to take you anywhere you would like, for very cheap. A few people from my Habitat group were already here, …

Today we took our lives into our own hands again. Seems to be a theme here. In our travel adventures dating back to college we have swam with dolphins, hugged Koala Bears and Kangaroos in Australia along with being chased by a shark on Great Barrier Reef (no joke), stalked grizzly bears (or we were stalked) in Alaska, rode Elephants yesterday and …

As we had booked with the company yesterday for the "Flight of the Gibbon" the lady there said she would organise a free taxi for us to take us to Tiger Kingdom. When we arrived at the office, it was a woman in her family 4x4. Not bad! We arrived early to the Tiger Kingdom so we did not have to queue. We paid to have go in the cages with the …

Went to a little market and got a wicked bannana milkshake for the princely sum of 30p (Cookie Shake; take note), we then met the nicest Tuk Tuk driver ever who took us to Tiger Kingdom, a local tourist haunt where you can hang out with tigers of all diferent sizes/ages. A lot of these sort of places are notorious for drugging the big kitties to …

Yesterday we got picked up at 7am on the dot to head up north to Burma to do a quicky and cheap visa run so that we could have another 15 days in Thailand. It took pretty much exactly 5 hours to get there and 5 hours to get back. We were told when we purchased these tickets that we would have 1 hour and a half on the Burma side of the border to do …

My 8th country in 5 months (and I'm including Tibet as a seperate country to China) and it has flown by! I'm finally on the home leg of the trip, AND MY DAD'S HERE!! I'm seeing Asia through a new arrivals eyes again. I'm so used to orange monks, massive temples, dogs on motorbikes and cheap food that I've started taking it all for granted, so it's …

The 13 hour sleeper train passed comfortably enough in my 2nd class top bunk, compared to our 3rd class bench experience back in December it was like a night at the Ritz!

After I had gobbled down a Thai Omelet for breakfast I ventured into the square, moated old city of Chiang Mai to seek out my pre-booked room. After wandering a few …

NB - The river was too high for the Bangkok canal tour, so we headed off to check out the Grand Palace instead. Lauren, Nicole and I lost the others somewhere outside the palace walls thanks to some tuk tuk man trying to scam us by telling us the Palace was closed and that he could take us to a market for 20 Baht. We found out later than the others …

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... . I have trouble determining if I find this sad or not. After visiting the tribes we go to another controversial site in Chiang Mai, the Tiger Kingdom. We have read a lot about the attraction and decided to see for ourselves what it is all about. At ...

... the caves and discovered Dinosaur bones,and many shrines. The caves are actually a place of worship for the local Buddhists. Tiger Kingdom After a beautiful morning off the beaten track, we  jumped straight into the standard tourist traps. The Tiger ...

Today I spent the day at Tiger Kingdom in Mae Rim, its close to the Four Seasons and a little like it!  I'm not used to seeing animal parks with five star bathrooms, and I was pleasantly surprised!  It was only B300 ($9-ish US) to spend a half ...

... a guesthouse where there was a lot of young backpackers.  We decided on doing a couple of touristy things, like the Tiger Kingdom!  Which was a bit scary seeing those BIG tigers.  NIKOLAS VERSION I got up this morning feeling great.  ...

... 300 wats (temples) which makes for some long temple viewing days.  Close to Chiang Mai are hill tribe villages to visit, elephant camps, a tiger kingdom and snake farm and bungee jumping, zip line and mountain biking adventures for the brave ...

... water and even his bogeys! After this incredible experience with the largest land mammal, we went to another unbelievable experience - The Tiger Kingdom. This was not an included excursion but everyone opted to do it and no one regreted it. We payed as ...

... theme but this is Ben and Emma we are talking about here so food is integral everywhere we go! We decided to get a taxi to Tiger Kingdom and less said about health and safety the better but needless to say the taxi ride was a little hairy! When we got ...

... day in Chiang Mai was spent exploring temples, browsing the markets and researching trips for the following days. Chiang Mai is the second largest city in Thailand and the markets were really good. We finally settled on a three day trip, leaving the ...

... we got to our hotel we booked some more things including an elephant trek and I booked a Thai cooking course. We then booked a tiger kingdom experience for that day were we'd get up close with all sizes of the striped beasts! Our taxi arrived and we ...

... chatted with the very friendly owners, and planned our future weeks together.  Our third day we ventured out and went to the Tiger Kingdom and Elephant Park.  At the Tiger Kingdom we chose what size/age tiger we wanted to "visit". The larger ...