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Published: February 27th 2016
Welcome to Tiger Kingdom
As we get ready to enter.Day 4-Saturday-January 16 Afternoon
Having seen the sign for Tiger Kingdom this morning on our way to the Elephant Life Experience, we stopped on our way back. Tiger Kingdom in Chiang Mai was opened in 2008. The first one was opened in Ubon, Thailand in 2000. Tigers at Tiger Kingdom are hand raised by their trainers since young, bonding with it throughout the development process. The trainer employs a combination of repetition, trust and encouragement to train their big cats and over time the Big Cat are accustomed to humans and often see us as one of the family. In Tiger Kingdom, the well-trained and experienced staff will ensure your safety, but these Big Cats are still wild animals that need to treated with respect.
Wow…what an experience! Upon entering, you have a choice of how many sizes/cages of tigers you wish to experience…1, 2, or 3, small, medium and large. This was not part of our tour with Wanna Tours, but we were happy to pay for it. We chose all 3! You get to enter the cages of these beautiful animals, be in there with them, pet them, play with their tails, rub their stomach, hug them,
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Annette pets her first tiger. take photos of and with them, but as you are warned by the gatekeeper and the person inside the cage,
don’t pet or touch their heads. These big cats were as docile, cuddly and hardly noticing our presence while we pet them. Even the large cats almost seemed preoccupied. We were there over an hour and entered 6 or 8 different cages…several had more than one tiger. We had no idea this would even be possible! WHAT A DAY...ELEPHANTS IN THE MORNING AND TIGERS IN THE AFTERNOON!
We did end up arriving back at the hotel and decided to have dinner at their Thai restaurant, The Lanna. It’s a lovely open-air venue which was having a traditional dance performance with traditional musicians that we enjoyed while eating a fabulous dinner. We also found out from our server about the outdoor party the night before and that Will Smith and his son were there. They were staying at the Four Seasons Hotel and came for the party. We understood that he was checking out locations for a movie. After dinner we had one of the hotel golf carts take us back to our suite for a wonderful night sleep after
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Doug pets another one. a simply amazing day. We have to get up early tomorrow as Nok is picking us up at 6:30 for another full day.
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Kathy Myers
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Love the Blog.....
Hey Doug and Annette you did a wonderful interesting Blog on your Chiang Mai Tiger Elephant encounter....loved the info..makes me want to go back again...we have been there too and really loved the area...so much more calm then Bangkok...Aloha kathy myers