{"id":1641,"date":"2012-02-10T06:10:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T11:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tillthemoneyrunsout.com\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2015-04-19T11:03:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T18:03:15","slug":"leaving-bangkok-if-not-with-a-bang-at-least-with-some-bangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tillthemoneyrunsout.com\/leaving-bangkok-if-not-with-a-bang-at-least-with-some-bangs\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Bangkok…if not with a Bang, at least with some bangs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really, really, really wanted to go to the Tiger Temple. Raquel (a bestie) must have told me about the temple 5 or 6 years ago. <\/p>\n

“There is this place in Thailand, where monks live with Tigers and all the tigers have been hand-fed cooked meat their entire lives so they don’t bite people and you can go and pet them.”<\/p>\n

This casual anecdote has had me day-dreaming about spooning tigers on an almost daily basis ever since. I have been talking about touching tigers since Tom and I first decided to go to Asia. We were saving the area of the tiger temple for the end of our Thailand trip, planning to spend our last three days at the temple frolicking with the tigers. Obviously I was pretty darn excited about the tigers. <\/p>\n

I started doing a little research about the area surrounding the “temple” just to pick out a place to stay. Just by googling “Thailand Tiger Temple” I started learning some pretty terrible stuff. At first I thought “there is always negative feedback about everything, people even got to hate on nice tiger loving monks.” Unfortunately the more I read the more certain I became that there was no way we could go and support the temple. Just google it yourself and you’ll see what I mean. I really, really wanted to pretend that it was going to be ok so I could still touch a tiger and then act all shocked and outraged about their treatment and the condition of their habitat later; but I just couldn’t do it.<\/p>\n

Without the three days of tiger love and cuddles that we had planned for; our planned “quick li’l stop-over” in Bangkok stretched out into a week. Definitely more time than we wanted to spend in the big city but we enjoyed it nonetheless. And though we may not have gotten close to big cats, we got really close to little fish. <\/p>\n

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