Kanchanaburi: Tiger Temple

One of the more popular day trips available in Kanchanaburi is to the Tiger Temple, about 70 clicks from town. It’s not listed in the lonely planet guide, unfortunately - the story going around is that some guy got mauled a few years back. My travel buddy convinced me to go despite the risk.

I think his motives are pretty clear:

She took a friendly swipe at my face right after the picture was taken. Luckily, the old Buddhist monk/head honcho pulled me aside before any real damage was dealt.



Rumour has it the tigers here are mellow (as far as tigers go) because they are heavily doped up. I noticed them feeding this stuff to one of the misbehaving tigers.

Our group had the benefit of walking the tigers back to their enclosures because it was almost closing time. As soon as the tigers were locked up, all the other animals came out from hiding.

…And they started misbehaving:

But the old monk set things straight:

What did the five fingers say to the face?

"SLAP"