I have been to some other crocodile farms but never in Pattaya. From the hotel we stayed, we drove the scooter for less than half an hour to get there. It is the same place as the Million Years Stones Park. We bought 2 tickets for 420 baht. I wondered how much for mine and how much for his who is a foreigner. I guess his was more expensive. I tried and look for the price on the tickets but nothing about the price written on them!
That place is a zoo with a park of many ancient stones in the front. We walked through the park to the zoo area and there were some white horses, monkeys, birds, white tigers, tigers, etc. We looked at the crocodile show time and found out we still had some minutes to spend before the show started.
We walked around and saw big sign to a crocodile feeding zone but we walked passed it. We walked a little farther and there was a building with some small stages with a tiger on it for us to take pictures with. There was a big tiger on the first stage and a foreign couple was sitting there for pictures. They asked us to pay for 60 baht each to take pictures with him but we didn't. At the last stage there was a baby tiger on it. She was very cute and seemed very playful. I wanted to play with her but we just walked pass them to the place where the crocodile show was.
It was a hall with roof and stands on the both sides of the entrance for us to sit. In the middle, there was a big pond with a tiled floor in the middle. Some crocodiles were laying on there while some were laying in the water beside the floor. At the end of the pond, there was a building with a speaker in it. A guy ran out of the building with a small stick in his hand. He poked the crocodiles softly with the sticky to greet them. He walked around and dragged some of them on the floor. All the actors and actress I guess.
I don't know how they train the crocodiles but they seemed to be tame. The guy dragged one of them at the other end opposite the building where the speaker was and had the crocodile laid still and open it's mouth wide. Then he walked to the other end and splashed the water all over the ground while walking. He walked in the building and then ran out and down on the floor and slid himself toward the crocodile and kissed it!
He did the similar thing to the other crocodiles, had their mouths open wide and he had his arm in the mouth and even inserted it inside the crocodile's throat! The most terrified thing was that he had his head in the mouth!
While the show was going, some people gave the guy money. When he got a banknote he would lifted a crocodile's paw up and put the note under it and told the crocodile to watch it for him. That made people laugh.
At the end of the show, the speaker announced that we could go in and take pictures with the crocodiles for 100 or 200 baht, not sure. We could sit on them but I didn't see any people did that. All of us walked out.
I told my boyfriend I would like to play with that baby tiger, so we walked to her. I paid 60 baht for the ticket and then I walked in and sat on the stage and had the baby girl on my lap. I had a bottle of milk in my hand to feed her. She seemed hungry and drank a lot. My boyfriend took some picture of me with the tiger and then the ticket seller told me to come out. As I walked out, the baby jumped off the stage and tried to follow me for more milk but she was chained.
After that we walked the crocodile feeding place. It was a small pavilion by a big pool with very green water. There was a desk selling piece of chicken. Some kids were feeding the crocodiles. They had a long big rod in their hands, like a fishing rod but with a rope that tied a piece of chicken at the end. When the crocodiles knew there was food, they swam toward us and tried and jumped to get the chicken. But the kids would not let them eat easily. Seemed they liked to tease the crocodile because I could hear them laugh every time a crocodile missed the chicken.
That was our last day of our sightseeing in Pattaya. The next day we woke up early. He walked to the laundry we dropped our clothes that day and then back to the hotel and got ready for the taxi to come and pick us back to Bangkok.
We spend a night at a daily apartment near my work so I could go to work easily in the next morning while he already left to the airport to catch a flight to the US at 4am.
It was very memorable!
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