27/2/08 - Safari World

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Thanks for reading, Joshua Dowse





Today was our last full day in Bangkok, as we were going to Koh Samui the next morning.

We had a quick breakfast, and then went down stair where our tour guide, Pan, was waiting for us, we hopped on our bus and went to a place called Safari World.

We arrived at the main entrance, and our tour guide told us to go to the toilet, and so on the way, we saw this sign that said the toilets were the best public toilet of the year!

They were pretty cool, they were set up like a jungle!

Any way, we hopped back onto the bus and we went on an African safari, in a man made environment, in Thailand!

First we saw zebras, rhinos, camels, giraffes, deer, buffalo, and many more!

Then we came to the dangerous animal section, we went through two automatic doors, and then we saw a whole heap of……….………… Lions!

Now I've seen heaps of lions at zoos and place like that, but I've never drove next to them, an arms reach out of the window! It was pretty awesome!

We kept on driving till we came to tiger country. We drove past a heap of tiger all relaxing, they were very cool, they were just like your average house cat, except 10 times bigger!

We then drove to a place where they were keeping two lions, and two tigers, and what they were trying to do was breed a liger, or tion, I can't remember?!?!?

After that we passed black bears, and a few more animals that were in the first section. We then drove back to the main entrance and entered the site.

In Safari World, they do lots of shows throughout the day, and our first show was the orangutan show. In this show they trained orangutans to play music, go down flying foxes, and Thai kick box! It was very funny.

The next show was the sea lion show, the sea lions did flips, jumped high in the air, and did tricks.

After the sea lion show, it was time for the bird show, they got birds to take and give back money, add numbers, score soccer goals, and speak in two different languages.

After that, we stopped for a buffet lunch.

After lunch, we saw the dolphin show, in the dolphin show, the dolphins jumped over bars, hula hoped, hit beach balls into the audience, touch balls 3 meters in the air, and break danced. After the dolphins, belugas came out, they sung, and gave one of the trainers a ride.

After the dolphin show, there was the spy wars show, a show filled with special effects, such as exploding chemicals, guns, jet skies and much more.

The last show was the elephant show. In this the elephants danced, shoot darts, and played penalty shoot out.

After they let people sit on at the front of the elephant, and Jakob got to do the whole time, he also got to go on one with no trainer, and got 2 rides around the ring!

By this time it was about 4:10pm, and it was time to leave, so we hopped back into the van and went back to our hotel, where we go ready to move to Koh Samui, had dinner, and went to sleep.