Sawadee-ka Thailand ~ Sweet Sweet Bangkok 2013

In fact, I had been to Bangkok many many times, and I will always return back because I love it there... Though traffic sometimes could be a little hectic with the impossible jams... but it never stopped me from going back there. The food is simply authentic, spicy & delicious, with the endless street hawkers almost at every corner of the street. Things are pretty cheap over there as well... Of course, not forgetting my shopping... it's just simply heaven for me... hehehehe...

I had made a trip down to Bangkok in end January, for a 4-Days Trip with my girls. Actually, we were pretty aimless of what we should do during our 4-days there. So I hope on to the tour guide desk in our hotel. The Safari Park had been a to-visit-place list since our last trip in September 2012. Both Nic and Mimi were pretty excited about our trip to the Safari except for Nat, whom is abit worried...

You shouldn't have much expectations about this Safari... As in compared to the Zoological Zoo we have in Singapore, this Safari is no way comparable to Singapore. It's condition is abit run down. We were a little skeptical when we arrived at the Safari, and felt probably it was a waste of money to visit the Safari.

However, as we walked along the Safari, we began to find that our trip was very fruitful. After the Elephant Show, we had a close encounter with the elephants. I mean REAL CLOSE!!!! They had even allowed us to feed the elephants but of course we had to pay a 50-baht for a small little bucket of bananas. If you could see in my pictures below, the elephants were pretty well-trained and well-behaved. Mimi was so excited as she could touched the elephants and feed them too. She was so daring to even sit on the elephant's trunk to take a picture!

These elephants were SMART as well... They knew how to draw a picture... Look at the paintings that they had drawn, and they were up for sale for 500-baht... It was really impressive.

Hehehehe... While looking up for our next destination, we met this little Orang Utan sitting by with its trainer. I had asked the trainer if we could take a picture with it. See how friendly this orang utan was... It was simply just kissing Mimi, and Mimi was simply just having fun too... It kissed me too... Its mouth was pretty soft & smooth when it kissed my face...:-D

Here are some of the animals that we can find in the Safari. And you will see them rather close, unlike the ones we have in SG Zoo, where by we can only see the animals in a distance. Over here, it was probably just a 50-cm distance away from the railings and the fence... Cool isn't it...???

This was one of Mimi's favourite spot... Feeding the giraffes... These giraffes sure are hungry and they seems to be eating non-stop with the people whom just kept feeding them... Don't they ever get full?? They had a long purplish tongue, which Mimi thought was quite yucky... hahahaha....

Last but not least... This was definitely not one encounter we would have in SG Zoo. I remembered my 1st counter with the tiger cubs was in South Africa. In South Africa, they were famous for the Safari, Lion City.. We really did not expect that we are able to get a snap-shot with the tiger cub in this Safari.. Look at Mimi, she was just thrilled over every single life animal that she had came across during this entire trip in the Safari. And she was actually feeling restless and bored when we brought her to watch the shows...
Hubby & I felt that thought this Safari was a little small and run down, these close encounters with the animals were all good enough to cover the other flaws....

WE LOVE BKK SAFARI!!!!

This is the map of the Safari that we had visited.

For those of you whom are keen, you may wish to "CLICK HERE" for more information.

This time round, we had also planned to go for a river cruise. The so-called very popular Chao Praya River Cruise was very much recommended by alot of people and even by the tour desk. The tour agent had promised me that this cruise will be interesting as we will see famous landmarks like the RAMA VIII Bridge, the temple which I can't remembered its name.

I would think that going on a day-cruise will be more beneficial as we will be able to see the landmarks clearly as compared to the ones we saw during the night.

There was also a short Cabarat Performance Show. My girls thought that these ladies looked quite pretty... :-p

In the end, we all had a wonderful trip this time. Except that I had missed out some late-night shoppings... :((