Pattaya is a colorful and famous beach resort town of Thailand. It is located almost 200 km from Bangkok and is an approachable getaway to revel in sand, sun, and sea. Most famous for its sparkling nightlife and never-seen parties, Pattaya is perceived as a...
Sometime last year, I would be more precise but that would involve deep reflection and arithmetic, two things which I am adamantly opposed to, I took on the scariest job in the world, sort of, as an Extra in a National Geographic documentary about paranormal encounters...
It seems like it was only yesterday that I was getting third degree burns hacking my way through a field as a rice harvester in Thailand. There were ceremonies with strange dancing, the customary rice hats, more strange dancing and a token gringo - to...
In August 2013, I was set to volunteer at Tiger Temple, Southeast Asia's most controversial tourist attraction, to find my own truth about wild tiger conservation. However, I left after 18 days of volunteering. In previous articles I have highlighted my thoughts after working there...
) Okay. So anyone who follows my site on the regular (high five by the way) may be perplexed at the abrupt end of my Tiger Temple posts. Well the truth of the matter is that I intended on writing a 20-something post series on it,...
[caption id="attachment_6937" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Volunteering with animals in Southeast asia is more than just tigers[/caption] When I first introduced my month long volunteering at Tiger Temple experiment, I breezily mentioned that there may in fact be a couple of other animals lurching about other than tigers....
[caption id="attachment_6841" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Ah Free Volunteering: Holding back my tears of excitement holding a wailing tiger cub[/caption] As I was quick to discover, there is no such thing as free volunteering, especially when it is free volunteering in Thailand. Every day the volunteers at Tiger...
In case you missed it, here is what I am doing at Tiger Temple. I was only halfway through my first official, full day volunteering at Tiger Temple and I had already experienced my first tiger bite, had a tiger take me for a walk on...
When I look back over my site over the past 2 years and see its slow maturation, its gentle embrace of refinement (I seem to be saying fuck a lot less, I should stop listening to my parents), I too have noticed that I no...
Today was my first official full day volunteering at Tiger Temple. My day began rising at 7am, stepping outside my room, and discovering that I am in fact, living in a zoo. My late night visit from a creepy goat was followed up with...