Tiger Temple, or Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, is a Buddhist temple in Western Thailand which keeps numerous animals, among them several tigers that walk around freely once a day and can be petted by visitors.
I loved these photos because when I was a kid I had a fantasy of having a wildcat that I could sleep next too. My little domestic cats were wonderful and soft, but I imagined it would be that much more wonderful to have them be as big as I was.
Gianna, I have decided, this is number one on my Bucket list.
Once I get off Cymbalta and update my passport, i will cash in my 401 and go there.
If Paul can spare you, please come too.
Welcome Immi!
They’re wonderful.
Btw, Holly the Cat sent me. hehe
I wanna go too!
I still have the fantasy of having a cat as big as me!
Susan,
This quote is great.
I wanna go! I wanna go!
There is a lovely quote I want to impart
Fernand Mery
“God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger.”
I wonder and would like to caress a tiger.. especially a white tiger.
oh, Karemenina,
that’s very disturbing….I didn’t go there..I just found these pictures and found them delightful so I shared them with my readers…
I certainly hope they don’t drug the tigers…oh…this sort of thing is so sad…
hopefully they are just well fed and happy….I don’t know…
Hi Gianna,
I just came back from the tiger temple and i was shocked how sleepy/unconsious the tigers where. I was thinking they were heavy druged. What was your feeling, where the tigers more alive when you was around?
Karemenina
It’s a date…let’s say five years from now June 20th. Mark you calendar! Val, are you in?
I wanna go…I hear Thailand is one of the safest places for women to travel! Let’s start saving our bucks. Maybe it can be a withdrawal and recovery congratulations present to ourselves! (I predict for me that will be 5 years down the line, and that’s probably how long it would take to save enough for a airline ticket to Thailand anyway!)
I hope you get to do that one day Gianna, that would be too cool, esp. seeing as that was one of your childhood wishes. 🙂
I’ll come with you Val! I want to snuggle up against one!
OK I’m ready to book a flight!!!
but I am also reminded of a comedian who was joking about Siegfried & Roy: that the tigers had to have visualized ’em as “walking cheeseburgers”…
No matter how well they were treated, eventually they had to give in to their urge for a cheeseburger!
I don’t think petting and hanging around with this “cats” this is a smart idea.
This is wonderful! thanks Gianna! when I was a teenager a friend had a baby lion cub and I got to hold it. Big cat! Tigers are beautiful aren’t they?
Gianna, these photos are wonderful! The people look so unafraid, the cats so languid. Thank you.
Another wonderful thing: I’m glad you’re back. Just getting going with my blog I look to your leadership. Interestingly, I just got a little taste of what you may have dealt with. I wrote a letter to the editor locally that people online generally received poorly. It wasn’t so much the outright dismissals that hurt; it was the sense of wasted effort when it seemed that my point was so little taken. A lot of their bickering back and forth about tangents was also distressing. I wondered, did I not speak in plain English, or what?
Sue Westwind
http://www.thenutrientpath.wordpress.com