A see to the Tiger Park in Pattaya, where tigers are made to exist outside their natural surroundings
released: 29 Jun 2017 at 04:00
‘ Begin,” Pansuphusana Phongsurang, consumer relations of Tiger Park, states to me while strolling me through a steel door. “It is a bit hard to comprise your mind. However everybody has the very first time. I always remember my very first time with tigers.”
The Tiger Park in Pattaya is a preferred locations in the eastern city amongst regional and incoming travelers alike. The park declares that it is the only location in Thailand that enables visitors to get up close with let loose tigers, and even touch the animals.
It is a hard choice whether to survive that door or not. Behind it, tigers are lying under trees’ shade in the garden, which is surrounded by an electrical fence. A tiger takes a look at me oddly while others are lying, swaying their long tails like felines waiting to play. I remain in a garden with 3 tigers in front of me.
Kid listed below the age of 15 are just permitted to go to the tiniest tigers, for security factors. Peerawat Jariyasombat
It is my very first time being close to tigers. Though they are extremely young, less than 30 months old, each is over 150 kg a minimum of. These tigers are huge and strong enough to hunt and eliminate, for sure, and the benefit of getting to “play” with domesticated wild animals stays an arguable problem, regardless of the appeal of a center such as this tiger park.
Lastly, I step through the door and my heart avoids a beat. A handful of visitors follow us. Unlike me, they are rather delighted to get in. The visitors gradually stroll and reach these tigers at their backs, then gently touch their backs and tails. With a drowsy face, a tiger recalls over its shoulder, to see a male is carefully touching its skin. It might believe a masseuse is nurturing its reddish-orange fur to keep it glossy.
A male rests by a tiger, utilizing its big body as a pillow, while others post in amusing gestures for photos.
According to Pansuphusana, Tiger Park is a subsidiary of Navaphol Big Tiger Co, which has long experience in tiger-themed parks such as Trakarn Zoo in Ubon Ratchathani, and Tiger Kingdom in Chiang Mai and Phuket. Tiger Park Pattaya today has 13 tigers. All of them are half-blood in between Indochinese and Bengal.
Tiger Park Pattaya lets its tigers live and unwind in the garden with 2 tidy shallow swimming pools to keep them comfy throughout hot days. At some minute, tigers experiment with their fitness instructors. A tiger leaps out of a shallow swimming pool, and in seconds it appears in front of its fitness instructor like a pet playing hide-and-seek with its owner. Another fitness instructor develops a ball connected to completion of a long stick and attracts his tiger to have fun with it like a feline playing with a ball of yarn. It is a charming time to see tiger at play.
After investing 10-15 minutes in the garden, the time to be with tigers is over. Visitors slowly vacate.
The fur is not soft, however rather tidy. Peerawat Jariyasombat
A tiger gazes into the electronic camera, as if taking a look at whether it can play this brand-new toy or not. Peerawat Jariyasombat
