Wat Pha Luong Ta Bua

Introduction

Wat Luong Pha Ta Bua is located in Saiyok town, Kanchanaburi Province, Northwest to Bangkok city and nearby Myanmar’s borders. This Theravada Buddhist temple is more popular with the name “The Tiger Temple’’, which is also recognized as both an appealing tourist destination and a special wildlife sanctuary in Thailand found in 1994. The Temple is home to a large number of Indo-Chinese tigers up to 150 individuals. Monks at Wat Luang Pha Ta Bua are highly responsible for growing and domesticating these tigers to make sure that tourists coming here can physically interact with tigers without any fear and danger.

Posing with a tiger must be a thrilling but unique experience all visitors desire for

History 

Wat Pa Luong Ta Bua is truly a sanctuary for wild animals since it was built in 1994. The story began when local residents brought an injured bird to the temple to have monks taken care for. The bird’s shouting accidentally attracted other flocks of birds and even an injured wild boar. When that wild boar was allowed to return to the forest, it led other 10 boars back to the temple to inhabit here. Residents living around started to bring other animals to the temple they didn’t want to raise from buffalo, bull, horse, to gibbon. All of them was looked after at a spacious area inside the temple. Monks took the first two tigers from villagers after tigers had been found living without the care of their parents. After that, other people continued to bring more tigers here. Finally, the name “Tiger Temple” was born as a place people and tigers live in harmony with each other.

Monks are now becoming the new caretakers of wild tigers

Activities

When stepping around Wat Pha Luong Ta Bua, you may first get dazzled as so many tigers are walking with you. However, you won’t be afraid of being attacked since these tigers are pretty friendly in contrary to their aggressive appearance. Moreover, the availability of staffs is to ensure tourist’s safety as all tigers are under strict supervision. Tigers living around Wat Pha Luong Ta Bua are carefully grown at an early age within the bare hand and countless compassion of monks. Therefore, you can treat them as well as the ways the monks of the Tiger Temple consider them as their family members. Tourists now take a great chance to have a unique experience when interacting with tigers by playing, feeding and taking nice pictures with them. Bear in mind that you need to pay for these activities or you just let them go for a walk and watch them doing their daily activities. Every day, monks feed tigers with well-cooked chicken and beef. Sometimes, they eat nutritious cat food to maintain good health.

Visitors can comfortably touch any tigers while walking around the Temple

How to get there

If you are in Bangkok, there are several prominent ways to get from Bangkok to Tiger Temple. The recommended option should be a minivan, which you can spend about 4 hours with a cost from 20 USD to 25 USD. Another suitable choice for budget travellers is travelling by train that takes you approximately 5 hours at a reasonable price fluctuating between 4 USD to 40 USD. Taxi is the fastest way you may concern when getting to Tiger Temple from Bangkok city as it just takes you more than 2 hours. You can make the use of online booking to save your time as many websites and apps for booking a taxi are available from Grab to goodtaxithai.com. However, the cost may be disadvantageous for ranging from 55 USD to 70 USD. The final choice is totally yours depending on your preference and schedule as usual.

Here we introduce to you Wat Pha Luong Ta Bua, an amazing tourist destination worth a visit when you travel to the land of miracles Thailand. Hope you find these pieces of information useful and do not hesitate to contact us should you have any further questions. See you there, guys!