Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua or Tiger Monastery. The monastery is located in Western Thailand in the Saiyok district of Kanchanaburi province near the border with Burma. The monastery was founded in 1994 as a forest reserve for various animals. 
Although the monastery has existed only recently, the history of such an unusual sanctuary has already become overgrown with legends. According to one of them, which penetrated the European press, the monk Acharn Phusit, who lived with several novices in the jungle, once during meditation saw a huge tiger in front of him. The predator approached the monk and prostrated himself at his feet. Seeing this as a sign, Acharn Phusit founded a monastery-shelter for tigers at the place of his meeting with the owner of the jungle. 
The history of the tiger monastery began in August 1994, when the wealthy Thai Hong family donated its land plot near the village of Phu Mai Daeng to one of the most revered Buddhist preachers in Thailand, 80-year-old Luangta Mahabua, for the construction of a new monastery. 
The Venerable Luangta sent one of his followers, Acharna Phusit Hanthitharo, to take his place. Having come to the conclusion that the donated site was quite suitable for creating a monastery, the Monk Acharn assembled a team of novices. The monastery became known in the area as a shelter for all the orphaned and crippled inhabitants of the jungle. The first to enter the monastery was a shot down wild chicken, then the monk picked up a shot down boar near the road, recovered, and the wild boar left to return with his entire family. 
Now in the monastery reserve, wild boars, striped piglets, deer, wild goats, chickens and peacocks, which like to build nests near the temple, gibbons, and even domestic buffaloes, cows and horses, which were abandoned by the owners, have found shelter. 
Gradually, caring for sick or injured animals became the monks' daily work. And what is most surprising is that tigers began to come to the monastery. 
The first tiger - a young cat a few months old - appeared in the monastery only in February 1999. Her mother was killed by poachers, and she herself passed from hand to hand. Some time later, two tiger cubs, confiscated from poachers, were brought to the monastery. The first pets of the monastery were fed by a dog. The forests of Kanchanaburi province are home to the largest population of tigers in Thailand. Hunting for them is prohibited in the country, and a significant part of the jungle belonging to them is included in national parks, but neither one nor the other stops poachers. As a result of poaching, small tigers often end up in the hands of people who do not know what to do with them. 
The appearance of a shelter monastery opened up a worthy solution: the tiger cub should be taken to the monks - holy people know better. 
None of the monks had any experience with tigers; everything had to be learned through practice. Nevertheless, in all the years of the presence of striped guests in the monastery, there has never been a case where they attacked the monks or guests of the monastery. 
And the monastery itself, while remaining a Buddhist sanctuary, a place of pious reflection and meditation, at the same time gradually turned into one of the main centers for the conservation and return to nature of the Indochinese tiger. Since then, more than a dozen tiger cubs have been born at the Tiger Temple - a considerable number for an endangered species. 
Now there are about 20 tigers living in the monastery. It is impossible to give an exact figure: some striped pupils leave the shelter, returning to the forest, and people bring others to replace them. They participate in Everyday life monastery, sometimes they come into the church for services - the parishioners are already accustomed to this. Sometimes they “meditate” with the monks: while they sit in the lotus position and indulge in pious thoughts, the tigers lie at their feet, look somewhere into the distance (or maybe deep into themselves) and think about something of their own, the tiger. 
Tigers (except for the smallest ones) are allowed to roam freely around the premises and courtyard only on special occasions: this is unsafe for pilgrims visiting the monastery, who, naturally, have no experience of communicating with tigers, and for other four-legged and feathered guests. Although monastery tigers do not show aggressive tendencies. The fact is that Buddhist monks reasoned in a Buddhist way: if a predator is properly fed and educated, this will help him curb aggression and accumulate merit for future rebirths. 1. It is very important that the animal does not associate food with killing. Food is what is in the bowl. And those who walk around are living creatures, like a tiger, and they want to live the same way. 2. The predator should not smell the meat. Tigers cannot be vegetarians, but you can feed them in such a way that nothing makes them think that the food in the bowl is killed animals. The meat is thoroughly washed, boiled and mixed with cat or dog food. Tiger cubs are fed baby food. 3. It is forbidden for an animal to taste blood. Tigers in the monastery are not beaten, not teased, are not encouraged to show aggression, and they carefully ensure that visitors do not provoke little tiger cubs and that they do not accidentally feel blood by biting a stupid tourist. In the entire history of the monastery, there has never been a case where a tiger attacked a visitor or a monk, but now the world-famous Tiger Temple is actively visited - more than 300 tourists visit here every day. 
Tigers spend some of their time in spacious cages. But every afternoon, the monks take their pets for a walk in a small gorge - “Tiger Island” - a vast fenced area next to the monastery. The “island” was conceived as a place for semi-free tigers, where they could live at their own discretion, communicate with each other and reproduce. But until the necessary work is completed, it serves as a platform for walks and outdoor games, without which the tiger cub cannot grow up to be a real ruler of the jungle. The monks whose job it is to care for the tigers gave them names. They play with them and wash them, massage them, make sure there are no fights and pet them big cats.
The tigers are cared for and looked after by monks and international volunteers. Most of the time, tigers are in the canyon, where they swim in the morning, sleep during the day, and fool around in the water again in the evening. 
In the morning, after bathing, the tigers are taken upstairs to the tourists. At the same time, monks and volunteers watch all these actions quite closely. After meeting the tigers, tourists are divided into several groups and sent to accompany the tigers back to the canyon. There, numerous guests of the monastery, separated from the tigers by purely symbolic ribbons and visors, can admire the tigers. The temple has become a place of constant pilgrimage for tourists. Taking pictures with tigers. At the same time, there are about 10 adult tigers on the site where filming with tourists takes place. You can touch them, take pictures with them as a souvenir, and for a special fee the tiger will lay its head on your lap. All cats have a “quiet hour” during the day, and besides, it’s quite hot in Thailand: the tigers, sleepy and exhausted from the heat, generously allow themselves to be petted and photographed, enjoying the coolness of the canyon and the water that the monks pour on them. 
A little further away you can pet the young and very tiny tiger cubs, play with them and take pictures. Tiger kittens play the same way as ordinary kittens, sometimes they “hunt” from behind a tree. wild boars, four times larger than babies. 
Tourism allows the monastery to receive money for the maintenance and feeding of animals and for the construction of a new complex where animals will live practically in freedom. The same purposes are served by the performances that the monks, together with their pets, sometimes stage for local residents. They are always a success, although no one specially trains the tigers or teaches them any tricks. Such shows increase the flow of donations to the monastery - the only source of food for both the monks and all the animals in their care. But Thai peasants are not a rich people, their modest gifts are not enough either to complete the construction of “Tiger Island” or to organize in the surrounding territory national park. Therefore, a special fund has been created at the monastery, collecting larger donations throughout Thailand and beyond. Thanks to the program on the Animal Planet channel, the monastery became known throughout the world, which helped raise the necessary funds to buy out the surrounding lands and maintain the animals. 
In addition, thanks to the wide popularity of the monastery, volunteer assistants from different countries and zoological specialists. “When people saw this program on your channel all over the world, they began to actively help me, so thank you, Animal Planet!” says Akarn Bushit. 
The temple has become a center for breeding tigers in Thailand and restoring their population. While the cubs are being raised in the monastery, they cannot be released into wildlife. The monks hope that in the near future, when the tigers live in a large, fenced-in jungle area, the new cubs will grow up away from people and will be able to learn skills that will help them survive in the wild. This is especially important because there are only about two hundred Corbett tigers left in Thailand, one of the rarest subspecies. Those who visited the Tiger Temple and had close contact with these charming cats become their ardent admirers and defenders. The abbot’s motto reads: “Why can’t we live together? The same blood flows in our veins, and it is red.” 
Updated 18/05/12 17:01: The source of most of the photographs and the story about being in the monastery as a volunteer can be found here: http://www.free-writer.ru/pages/tiger_templ.html
« Tiger Temple"or tiger cave is one of the favorite places for tourists in. Tourists looking for interesting places in Thailand are often offered a ride here. A visit to hot springs is often added as a bonus. True, a rare tourist, after a long study of the Cave Temple, is happy with such a “hot” addition. Followers of the Buddhist religion come to Tiger Temple in Krabi on a pilgrimage mission.
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What is so attractive about Tiger Cave?
is a Temple located under the “claw” of a rock 270 meters high. The temple rock is shaped like a tiger's claw, hence its “predatory” name. The area around the Temple is incredibly beautiful; the rock fits neatly into the surrounding landscapes.
For the idle tourist, the main “exhibits” in the Tiger Temple are the statues, of which there are many, as well as the walls themselves, intricately carved by time. Buddhists come here not for the Temple itself, but for the “path of purification.” Not far from the sacred place there is a climb up the mountain. According to local legends, Buddha himself left a mark on it. Climbing Tiger Cave Mountain you can see almost the entire Krabi province.
In addition, there is no way to get to the top of the sacred mountain using the “ladder”, which is a staircase of 1,237 steps. Therefore, to pray at the Buddha statue, surrounded by impressive views and panoramas, you have to go through a difficult journey.
Modern infrastructure has improved the place with several free parking lots located near the Temple. Visit Tiger Temple in Krabi Also, anyone can do it completely free of charge. Special ballot boxes are provided for voluntary donations.
"Path of Purification"
After visiting the Tiger Temple in Krabi (one of the most beautiful), it is worth climbing sacred mountain, for this you need to prepare. You should definitely go to the toilet (read more about the features) and also stock up on a bottle. The road to the Buddha statue will take a lot of time, usually 30–40 minutes is enough, but everyone has their own pace. It can be scary to get up right away, but then you get used to it. There is only one toilet on the stairs of the Tiger Temple and that one is almost at the very top.
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Not so scary tiger cave in krabi, like the first few dozen steps up the mountain. But as you go up, the stairs become more comfortable and easy to walk on. It's important to take your time here. The rapid ascent can be very tiring, and this will ruin the feeling of visiting a sacred place. It’s better to walk slowly to Tiger Cave, keeping your breathing even and not overexerting yourself. Then you will have the strength to enjoy beautiful views, opening from a mountain peak.
At the top, they took care of the guests and installed a gazebo with benches and several washbasins with cool water. But there will definitely be pilgrims and tired tourists who have already managed to get up.
conclusions
For visitors, the Tiger Temple in Krabi is one of the first places to visit. It is not necessary to choose a paid excursion; after the walk you will hardly want to go to the hot springs. It’s cheaper and easier to get to the place by taxi, rented transport () or. This will allow you to save a lot, because visiting the place is completely free. There will be a lot of impressions. On the one hand, thousands of Buddhists come to this place, believing in the sacred energy of the cave and the mountain peak. On the other hand, the view from the mountain is indescribable; it’s unlikely that anywhere else near Ao Nang there will be the same Observation deck, offering a panorama of most of the Krabi province.
Video filming of the temple from a quadcopter
In March 2017, after a 9-month break, Thailand plans to reopen the famous Tiger Temple. The administration received official permission from the zoo, and a new breed of tigers was brought to the Temple
Nine months ago the temple was closed after an inspection because it was found that internal organs killed animals are used to make amulets and energy drinks. A new tiger nursery under the same name will open here in March. The criminal case initiated regarding the illegal killing of animals has not yet been disclosed.
Adisorn Noochdamrong, the national park administrator who led the June inspection of the Tiger Temple, said that new project does not break the law because the zoo was licensed two months before the police operation.
The new project will also be known to tourists as the Tiger Temple. 105 tigers live here, with which tourists can interact. These will not be the tigers that survived in the previous zoo, but animals brought from another commercial zoo in Nakhon Nayok. “They have a right to this,” said Adisorn, a former deputy director of the national parks department who now works as an ombudsman for the Kingdom's ministry.
One tour operator has already started selling Breakfast with Monks and Tigers tours, costing 10,550 baht per person. “They are opening,” Tony Clark, head of the Thailand Tourism Center Association, said by phone. “The zoo will be in the same place.” Clark added that tours begin on March 1 and the majority of tourists are expected to be foreigners.
For almost 10 years, the Tiger Temple in Thailand received large profits from tourists, with more than 100 animals living in the nursery without a license. Animal rights activists have accused the Temple administration of trading in tiger organs and cruelty to animals. However, the interest of tourists in this place did not decrease.
Inspection results
Although the Tiger Temple and the zoo are separate legal entities, they have always been closely related. Last April, a notorious temple in Thailand was subject to inspection. The inspection set itself the goal of finding out whether the temple administration had a license to keep animals. It turned out that the abbot of the Tiger Monastery Phra Wisutthisarathen and his monks did not have the relevant documents.
The license to open the zoo was obtained two months after the final inspection of the temple by animal rights activists. After this, the temple, officially called Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua Yanasampanno, was closed. Before this, there had been complaints against the monks for several years due to their cruelty to animals.
The inspectors' worst fears were confirmed. A shocking discovery has been made: tiger organs being used for commercial purposes. Amulets were made from skins and claws, energy drinks were made from blood, and dozens of bottles containing dead cubs were found.
Read the details here: (SHOCK PHOTO)
The abbot of the monastery and his monks were accused of illegally selling tiger organs and illegally keeping an endangered species of animal. But they denied everything, and were soon released from custody, while the criminal case remained suspended.
Adisorn, who led the probe until he was transferred last month, blamed police for failing to forward the case to prosecutors in time. “Many violations have been noted. For example, when the case was heard in court, it turned out that the names of many suspects had mysteriously disappeared from the investigator’s documents,” he said. “We filed an appeal and showed the original documents, now the case will be considered again.”
Official version
An article in National Geographic magazine writes that the administration of the real Tiger Temple formally has nothing to do with the illegal zoo and is not involved in the scandal. This month, the Tiger Temple in Thailand changed its official name. Previously it was registered as entity Tiger Temple Co. Ltd., and the new name is Golden Tiger (Thailand) Co. Ltd.
Adisorn said he did not know whether the company paid any money to the owners of Mali Sarika, a commercial zoo in Nakhon Nayok where the new tigers were brought from.
The transfer of tigers took place without breaking the law, but nevertheless, Adisorn said the zoo may not open in March. He stated that construction has not been completed, and animal rights activists must once again come with an inspection to determine whether the existing conditions are suitable for keeping large quantity animals. “First we need to make sure that we are not breaking the law,” the official said.
As for the tigers removed from the Temple in June, they will spend the rest of their lives in captivity. IN this moment they all live on site state reserve. They will not be released into the wild because they have lived in the Temple for so long that they are not adapted to independent life. “They will not be able to feed themselves and protect themselves,” Adisorn added.
As the Buddhist Jataka legends say, before seeing the fullness of truth, Buddha, like other beings, was born into the world many times in the form of various animals and people. And the future savior of the world ended one of his earthly lives by voluntarily giving his body to a tigress with hungry cubs.
It is called the "Tiger Temple". This Buddhist monastery is located in the north of Thailand in the Kanchanburi province. Wat Pa Luangta Bua Yanasampanno Forest Monastery is the only place in Thailand where striped predators probably have more rights than the monks themselves. Entrance to the monastery reserve costs 500 baht. Tigers live surrounded by concern and love, they accompany Buddhists on walks and meditate with them. All tigers were not caught in the wild, but were rescued from death.
In Theravada Buddhism, the so-called accumulation of merit, the more merit in this life, the better the next life will be. Save from death Living being- a very significant achievement. Therefore, the surrounding residents give the wild animals they find to the monks.
Although the monastery has existed only recently, the history of such an unusual sanctuary has already become overgrown with legends. According to one of them, which penetrated the European press, the monk Acharn Phusit, who lived with several novices in the jungle, once during meditation saw a huge tiger in front of him. The predator approached the monk and prostrated himself at his feet. Seeing this as a sign, Acharn Phusit founded a monastery-shelter for tigers at the place of his meeting with the owner of the jungle.
The history of the tiger monastery began in August 1994, when the wealthy Thai Hong family donated a plot of land they owned near the village of Phu Mai Daeng to one of the most revered Buddhist preachers in Thailand, 80-year-old Luangtha Mahabua, for the construction of a new monastery. The Venerable Luangta sent one of his followers, Acharna Phusit Hanthitharo, to take his place. Having come to the conclusion that the donated site was quite suitable for creating a monastery, the Monk Acharn assembled a team of novices.
The monastery became known in the area as a shelter for all the orphaned and crippled inhabitants of the jungle. The first to enter the monastery was a shot down wild chicken, then the monk picked up a shot down boar near the road, recovered, and the wild boar left to return with his entire family.
Now in the monastery reserve, wild boars, striped piglets, deer, wild goats, chickens and peacocks, which like to build nests near the temple, gibbons, and even domestic buffaloes, cows and horses, which were abandoned by the owners, have found shelter.
Gradually, caring for sick or injured animals became the monks' daily work. And what is most surprising is that tigers began to come to the monastery.
The first tiger - a young cat a few months old - appeared in the monastery only in February 1999. Her mother was killed by poachers, and she herself passed from hand to hand.
Some time later, two tiger cubs, confiscated from poachers, were brought to the monastery. The first pets of the monastery were fed by a dog.
The forests of Kanchanaburi province are home to the largest population of tigers in Thailand. Hunting for them is prohibited in the country, and a significant part of the jungle belonging to them is included in national parks, but neither one nor the other stops poachers. As a result of poaching, small tigers often end up in the hands of people who do not know what to do with them.
The appearance of a shelter monastery opened up a worthy solution: the tiger cub should be taken to the monks - holy people know better.
None of the monks had any experience with tigers; everything had to be learned through practice. Nevertheless, in the six years of the presence of striped guests in the monastery, there has never been a case where they attacked the monks or guests of the monastery. And the monastery itself, while remaining a Buddhist sanctuary, a place of pious reflection and meditation, at the same time gradually turned into one of the main centers for the conservation and return to nature of the Indochinese tiger.
Since then, more than a dozen tiger cubs have been born at the Tiger Temple - a considerable number for an endangered species.
Now there are about 20 tigers living in the monastery. It is impossible to give an exact figure: some striped pupils leave the shelter, returning to the forest, and people bring others to replace them. They participate in the daily life of the monastery, sometimes entering the church for services - the parishioners are already accustomed to this. Sometimes they “meditate” with the monks: while they sit in the lotus position and indulge in pious thoughts, the tigers lie at their feet, look somewhere into the distance (or maybe deep into themselves) and think about something of their own, the tiger.
Tigers (except for the smallest ones) are allowed to roam freely around the premises and courtyard only on special occasions: this is unsafe for pilgrims visiting the monastery, who, naturally, have no experience of communicating with tigers, and for other four-legged and feathered guests. Although monastery tigers do not show aggressive tendencies. The fact is that Buddhist monks reasoned in a Buddhist way: if a predator is properly fed and educated, this will help him curb aggression and accumulate merit for future rebirths.
1. It is very important that the animal does not associate food with killing. Food is what is in the bowl. And those who walk around are living creatures, like a tiger, and they want to live the same way.
2. The predator should not smell the meat. Tigers cannot be vegetarians, but you can feed them in such a way that nothing makes them think that the food in the bowl is killed animals. The meat is thoroughly washed, boiled and mixed with cat or dog food. Tiger cubs are fed baby food.
3. It is forbidden for an animal to taste blood. Tigers in the monastery are not beaten, not teased, are not encouraged to show aggression, and they carefully ensure that visitors do not provoke little tiger cubs and that they do not accidentally feel blood by biting a stupid tourist.
In the entire history of the monastery, there has never been a case where a tiger attacked a visitor or a monk, but now the world-famous Tiger Temple is actively visited - more than 300 tourists visit here every day.
Tigers spend most of their time in spacious cages. But every afternoon, the monks take their pets for a walk in a small gorge - “Tiger Island” - a vast fenced area next to the monastery. The “island” was conceived as a place for semi-free tigers, where they could live at their own discretion, communicate with each other and reproduce. But until the necessary work is completed, it serves as a platform for walks and outdoor games, without which the tiger cub cannot grow up to be a real ruler of the jungle. The monks whose job it is to care for the tigers gave them names. They play with them and wash them, give them massages, make sure there are no fights and pet the big cats.
The tigers are cared for and looked after by monks and international volunteers.
Most of the time, tigers are in the canyon, where they swim in the morning, sleep during the day, and fool around in the water again in the evening.
In the morning, after bathing, the tigers are taken upstairs to the tourists. At the same time, monks and volunteers watch all these actions quite closely. After meeting the tigers, tourists are divided into several groups and sent to accompany the tigers back to the canyon.
There, numerous guests of the monastery, separated from the tigers by purely symbolic ribbons and visors, can admire the tigers.
The temple has become a place of constant pilgrimage for tourists. Taking pictures with tigers. At the same time, there are about 10 adult tigers on the site where filming with tourists takes place. You can touch them, take pictures with them as a souvenir, and for a special fee the tiger will lay its head on your lap.
All cats have a “quiet hour” during the day, and besides, it’s quite hot in Thailand: the tigers, sleepy and exhausted from the heat, generously allow themselves to be petted and photographed, enjoying the coolness of the canyon and the water that the monks pour on them.
A little further away you can pet the young and very tiny tiger cubs, play with them and take pictures. Tiger kittens play the same way as ordinary kittens, sometimes they “hunt” wild boars from behind a tree, which are four times larger than the kids.
Tourism allows the monastery to receive money for the maintenance and feeding of animals and for the construction of a new complex where animals will live practically in freedom. The same purposes are served by the performances that the monks, together with their pets, sometimes stage for local residents. They are always a success, although no one specially trains the tigers or teaches them any tricks. Such shows increase the flow of donations to the monastery - the only source of food for both the monks and all the animals in their care. But Thai peasants are not a rich people; their modest gifts are not enough either to complete the construction of Tiger Island or to organize a national park in the surrounding area. Therefore, a special fund has been created at the monastery, collecting larger donations throughout Thailand and beyond.
Thanks to the program on the Animal Planet channel, the monastery became known throughout the world, which helped raise the necessary funds to buy out the surrounding lands and maintain the animals.
In addition, thanks to the wide popularity of the monastery, volunteer assistants from different countries and zoological specialists flocked there. “When people saw this program on your channel all over the world, they began to actively help me, so thank you, Animal Planet!” says Akarn Bushit.
The temple has become a center for breeding tigers in Thailand and restoring their population. While the cubs are being raised in the monastery, they cannot be released into the wild. The monks hope that in the near future, when the tigers live in a large, fenced-in jungle area, the new cubs will grow up away from people and will be able to learn skills that will help them survive in the wild. This is especially important because there are only about two hundred Corbett tigers left in Thailand, one of the rarest subspecies.
In addition to my personal photographs, the post uses photographs from the Internet.
February 11, 2018 Kalinchenko Dmitry 4 Comments
Tiger Monastery located in the northwest of Kanchanaburi, it takes about half an hour to drive from the city of Kanchanaburi itself. The monastery was founded in 1994 as a shelter for wild animals. Gradually, tiger cubs or tigers were brought to the monastery and by 2011 there were already 85 tigers. I took an excursion on the tourist street of Kanchanaburi, it cost about 400 baht and was simply a ride in an ordinary tuk-tuk to the monastery and back, having arrived there you had already You go for a walk around the monastery on your own, the main thing is to come back to the tuk-tuk on time.
I was traveling with a small group of Europeans, they immediately huddled together and walked together, and I was on my own. As you pass the gate, you simply walk through the territory, the ground is orange-red everywhere, wild boars, deer and all sorts of other animals graze everywhere. After walking about 300 meters, go to the canyon, where on the lower right there will be the location of the tigers and all the shows, and if you go further, you will come to a large wall with a gate, behind which are cages with tigers and other locations.
The show with tigers starts at 15:30 and costs 500 baht, we didn’t get to see it, but the show is interesting, tigers jump, fight, etc. A photo with a tiger costs 1000 baht, naturally I refused, the prices are astronomical, but those Europeans for whom this is the pinnacle of exoticism went to take a photo. The tigers, as usual, lie on the ground, with a chain around their necks, all calm. Feeding tiger cubs 1000 baht. There is a more interesting and expensive program.
Since we were late for the show, and I had already taken a photo with the tiger before, I went to see what else was there. I came to the large walls and went up, then you need to move directly along the wall, since behind the walls, on the ground, there are cages with tigers.
The whole area below is tiger territory. It all looks more like a zone or a prison, with a lot of thorns everywhere. Some tigers large territory with houses, others just have cages.
The territory is a little stylized, in some places there are some mushrooms, logs, benches, etc.
Having reached the end, we go down the path down to the ground, the views here are fabulous, the ground is red, the trees are not at all Thai, as if we were not in Thailand.
Some of the Europeans immediately arrived and we went to explore the territory. We walked along a path through the forest, there are Buddhist houses, wild boars, deer, and all sorts of birds are running around the forest.
There are broken bottles on the fence. 
Quad bike worker, worker has arrived Having passed through the forest, we entered another territory, first we met a bear cub, which was being fed in a cage, then we approached the place where a tiger had already been brought for FREE photography, let me remind you that at the entrance it cost 1000 baht. The tiger was simply led like a dog by a leash. Immediately there was a line of people wanting to take a photo with the tiger for free)) A couple of people made it, and then the tiger’s mood changed and everyone was asked to leave.
After the tiger we went to the exit, and this was the end of our excursion.
And now the most important and sad thing!
Arriving here a year later (October 2016), I discovered that there were no tigers here anymore! At the entrance we were told that simple animals remained, but the tigers were taken away, most likely due to their inappropriate keeping and the illegal activities of the monastery in relation to tigers. There was an inspection by police and DNP representatives, which resulted in the discovery of 40 dead tiger cubs, and suspicion of tiger breeding for the purpose of trade with Laos. It was also illegal to make circus animals out of tigers for the sake of making a profit from tourists.
Such are the things.
Now the monastery is closed.
