Sawadee - part 3

After we were finished with Ancient City, we were feeling real hungry. We asked our driver to bring us somewhere for lunch. He quickly insisted that we should go to Crocodile Farm and that we can find food there. I wasn't all that excited about it and it wasn't in our itinerary, but since the Crocodile Farm is close by Ancient City, we thought why not..

we got there and there were this guy doing show with two monkeys. one of the performance was having the poor monkey to jump through a blazing hoop. poor thing survived.


we then quickly went to catch the crocodile show. two guys were performing.
the only disappointing thing is the commentator was commenting in THai and I understand not a single word he utters.

jake sat there and faithfully snapped lots of pics. i really appreciate that coz if not, i will have nothing to blog about:P one of the guy pulled the crocs' tail and the other poked it with sticks. then he puts one of his hand into the wide-opened MOUTH!!! nothing happened..then this other guy put his HEAD Into the crocs' MOUTH !!! his head was intact. then they manhandled the reptiles. Show ended and viewers have the opportunity to have photos taken with one of the crocs for 200Bht. Jake and I went for it. we were surrounded by heaps of them. I wasn't at all keen!!!! but we walked into the den anyways and I was terrified for the whole time worrying if I would lost my limbs. luckily we came out in one piece.

then it was the elephant show.

there were two elephants. one was a baby elephant and one was an adult elephant. They were very talented. they drew, walked on thin wires, ride on tuk-tuk, and they even danced..(wiggling their bodies) the show ended with thai walking underneath the elephants and petting them. It must be a blessing thing to walk underneath the big mammal.

I bought a bunch of banana and fed one of the elephant we were about to ride on. i was so stingy and only gave the elephant one banana before we went on our ride :P apparently they eat by the bunch.


anyways this is us on the elephant. the ride went real quickly...our guide is very nice...after our ride, i rewarded the elephant with the rest of the banana giving him the whole bunch this time:P

The crocodile farm also has a zoo section. There's tiger, tortoises, goats, camels, wild boars, snakes, birds, peacocks...etc..This two creature from two complete different world attracted my attention. a Dog and Tiger cohabit together. What's in their mind? Did the tiger thinks it is a dog or did the dog think it's a tiger ...


We also went on a horse carriage ride. I like the sound of the horse galloping. the HOoves hitting the ground...the driver took the pic for us and lent his cowboy hat to jake and asked him to hold the rein. hehehe.


I think karen has taken pic with a white tiger in Thailand too. Anyways, we took one with this tiger (it's a different tiger from the one in the cage).


we were so graceful in our thai dance. Only it is a painting in front of us ..teehee..

Again, us manhandling the crocodile..hehehe

Finally, our super late lunch. we went to try out crocodile meat. I opted for the Crocodile burger. It is quite nice...Nothing funny...Jake asked for the hottest crocodile dish they serve.
The waitress and waiter both pointed to the curry dish. Anyways, the verdict, i felt like my tongue was stung by 1000ants when i tried the crocodile curry!!!! jake laughed and laughed but he can feel the stinging too. I rushed out to the drinks shop across afterwards to get ice cream to numb my mouth. hehehehe.

we left and went back to our hotel. i was very happy with the crocodile farm. Didn't expect it to be so fun. I was really only expecting smelly crocodiles ..