"An Around-the-World-Ticket for Two, Please."

You Shere Khan stroke a Tiger here!

Posted by Sarah O'Neill , Thursday, 16 September 2010 09:49

Had a lazy morning today and let our bodies recover a bit! We decided to go to the Tiger Kingdom today, and do the cooking tomorrow. We had breakfast / lunch and then got a tuktuk to take us to the Tiger Kingdom. When you arrive you have to choose which cages to go in, smallest, small, medium, large. We chose smallest, small and large! We went in that order and it was absolutely amazing! Can only put a few pics up here, but more on facebook, and hoping to get a flicker account sorted for all our pics!

The smallest ones were amazing! There was also an Australian keeper there, who was great to talk to and took some fab photos of us both! They were quite sleepy, and she told us that Tigers sleep 18 hours a day and the best times to come are early morning, or later evening, which is shame because we went at midday! Oh well! A few were awake, and to be honest I prefered the sleeping ones as they didn't look so scary!!!! These tigers were 5 months old.

The next ones were 7 months old and they certainly grow in that two months! They were three siblings, 2 boys and a girl! The experience was amazing! Ben took a fab photo of one chewing a piece of bamboo, cleaning his teeth!

The large tigers were super scary! They we wide awake and padding around! They are so big when you are standing next to one! One was more placid and rolled over for a tummy tickle! It was so weird! What an experience!