Sodom & Gomorrah

Here’s a little photo report of Jatujak, of the there caged and tied down animals’ Sodom & Gomorrah. There’s hardly anything you can’t find at Jatujak.

And no pet that isn’t for sale, be it dogs, cats, birds, fishes, scorpions, turtles, spiders, snakes, etc. In apocalyptic conditions that is.

It’s heartbreaking to stroll along Jatujak’s animal shops. Animal rights, like other basic rights, are no speciality of Thailand.

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August 30, 2009 | Filed Under Culture Shock, Nature, Photography, Truly Bangkok | 8 Comments 

Recently, In The Wild

As one single panda cub keeps on taking the breath away from a whole nation with breaking news such as when she opened her left and when her right eye, the kingdom’s official animal, the elephant, falls into ever deeper oblivion. The panda earns the Chiang Mai zoo millions. Elephants cost millions.

The little panda is so cute. Hence elephants have become a menace. They roam Bangkok’s streets begging for food and recently, while driving to a temple near the Burmese border, a 2 1/2 hours drive away from Bangkok, on the beautiful highway 3219 from Hua Hin to the Pala-U waterfalls, we ran into a wild elephant.

There he was, at around tenish in the morning, breaking out of the jungle thicket and slowly marching along the road. A pick-up driver tried to tell me: slow down. But there he came, the elephant, kind of charging, speeding up in exactly our direction. What to do?

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July 12, 2009 | Filed Under Nature, Sports & Fun | 3 Comments