Tiger Kingdom

Even thought I don’t like “tourist attractions”, this one was too cool to pass up! 

Tiger Kingdom is a rescue shelter for Tigers. Here, you can actually touch and lay with real live tigers with all proceeds going toward the needs of the shelter. 

Tiger Kingdom is one of the only rescue shelters that doesn’t use relaxation drugs or tranquilizers on their animals when they are available to the public. Instead, they keep their tigers on a strict feeding and sleeping schedule to make sure they are in a happy mood and their bellies are full when tourists are around.  

A few of the little tigers were very playful. One even tried to naw on my knee! 

What an incredable day! It was a dream come true to get to be so close to such powerful animals. They were so well behaved I almost forget they were wild. They were more like my little Ragdoll kitten back home. Haha jk… 

“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

Be free,

Krista Wanous

Miss International 2012