Safari World of Bangkok: A Marvelous Mini World of Tourist Entertainment and Learning!

Thailand has emerged as one of the hot spots of tourism in the world with over 20 million people visiting that country every year. That is nearly 25% of that country's total population!

While some people may have some reservations about this country's tourism model on account of its broadminded approach in certain aspects of life that are still viewed as taboos in many other nations and societies, it still is a beautifully developed Asian nation. The Thais consider their land a golden land and literally it is gold decorated everywhere!

I shall be writing about the Thai culture, economy and its initiatives in progress and development later. 

Today I would like to share some videos and photographs that I took while visiting their open zoo cum amusement park that is named the Safari World. It is in Bangkok and it really gives some great amusement and learning for both adults and children. Incidentally, the Thai (Siamese) name of Bangkok is pretty long and it literally means: "City of angels, great city of immortals, magnificent city of the nine gems, seat of the king, city of royal palaces, home of gods incarnate, erected by Visvakarman at Indra's behest".

A GIF Clip from the Orangutan Show

A GIF Clip from the Sea lion Show

Sea lion Show-Another GIF

A GIF from the Dolphin Show

The Safari World visit would be an unforgettable thing for most tourists. The Thai authorities have made it so systematically arranged the whole attraction with excellent facilities and infrastructure that every one enjoy the miniature wild very much.

The Author and wife in front of the Safari World Entrance

Another view of the entrance with the portrait of
Thai Queen Sirikit with royal decorations

Colorful Parakeets 

Giraffes in scores enjoying the company of humans!

Lemurs!

Visitors flocking in to watch the Orangutan Show 30th Aug 2014

Visitors waiting to watch the Sea lion show!

Spectators at the Dolphin Show!

A live show that takes the Children to 
the days of Charles Dickens and the duel days of Europe!

Its time to relax and relish 
a sumptuous buffet lunch!

A game for the visitors with 
a beautiful Thai lady attraction!

Visitors enjoying a paid photo 
session with a tiger cub!

Dressed up Orangutans also would 
like to pose with you if you pay!

Walking and talking animal characters!

Visitors in closed vehicles watch the pelicans in the open!

Unmindful rhinos and birds!

Opportunity to watch the lions hunting and resting!

The tigers sleeping!

Bulky bears!

Pseudo environmentalists may openly denounce the animal shows. In India they do it any way and make such ridiculous laws that killed our circus shows with performing animals and let loose the dogs in the streets that make lives difficult for the people as well as the animals. 

But in Thailand, they do it with human wisdom. The synchronization and communication between certain higher brained animals and humans can be witnessed and appreciated here. It was a pleasure and wonder to observe the orangutans, the sea lions and the dolphins respond effortlessly to human language communication. Their wise laws provided some of them to go nearer to these animals and train them. Perhaps, such nearer interactions might provide them more and more opportunities to enhance human wisdom and move forward, instead of living in the stories of the past! 

Suicide of Robin Williams and the Jet Pilots Sleeping: Connecting Two Unrelated Events!

Today morning it began to rain in Ranchi. Something good. But that caused our newspaper man delaying his delivery by two hours and I could not spend time reading the paper in the morning as usual.

I was thinking of writing some thing about Cain, son of Eve. I did not say Adam, purposefully. You would know it when I write about it later!

My idea changed when I got the newspaper when I was about to get into my car to go to office. I just had a cursory look at the headlines of the front page.

No doubt, the headlines have been all about politics and political gimmicks. I have nothing to write about those as there are several opinion makers and media intellectuals to analyze those and make us politically enlightened.

What got my attention were two short news: the first was about the suicide of Academy award winning American actor, Robin Williams. The second was about the miraculous escape of international air passengers travelling to Brussels from India on Indian private carrier-Jet Airways. The report said both the pilots slept nicely in the cock pit while the plane was cruising at 33000 feet above Turkey causing the unattended aircraft to plunge 5000 feet. The passengers were fortunate that their sleeping captains woke up in time to regain controls before another possible air accident of the year! 

While I was thinking of the possible causes of mishaps involving the so-called celebrities (actors and pilots are worshipful heroes for many!), I myself was saved from a possible car-crash on a blind turn with another car on the way. The other car was driven by a teenager boy driving carelessly while talking over his cell-phone. Perhaps he even did not have a driving licence! Holding his mobile phone pressed to his ears with his right hand, he could not make the steering turn properly with his other hand. But we both applied the brakes just in time to stop our cars within a few inches from each other! Perhaps he realized his mistake, perhaps not. But accidents by immature drivers are on the rise. Whose fault is it, anyway? We would not be able to make any one answer!

The american actor was a successful man in the eyes of the general public. He, perhaps had everything in life-fame, money, recognition, pleasure and what not? But the reports says that he was a drug user and an alcohol enthusiast. But more than that, he had some causes of worry, anxiety, or unhappiness arising from some deep rooted and unfulfilled desires which he was not able to express or share. He perhaps had only formal friends and relatives with whom he was unable to share his problems freely. How can a materially successful person be unhappy? How can a person who caused others to laugh always remained tensed from within? How could he be in the grip of depression, even at an age when he was supposed to be matured by worldly experience? 

Human body and mind are indeed complex. There are biological, endocrinal and electrical signals controlling our body in a very complicated manner. We would never be in a position to get to a simple answer to the varied problems of human body and mind. Nevertheless, humans have free will and in-built systems that provide guidance for appropriate living. Unfortunately, many of them, especially those of the celebrity kinds, have no time to put their free thought faculties to guide them. No wonder then that Jesus reportedly told about the difficulty of the rich and famous to enter the kingdom of God!

When money, wealth and power are lavish, the thought faculties of humans go behind the bars!

What perhaps happened to our Indian pilots yesterday was also nothing different. Airline pilots are paid heftily than they can possibly spend in some sane manner. While they are not allowed to board the plane's cockpit with alcohol testing positive as per their service rules, there is nothing preventing them to spend a whole night partying, without taking rest. They are trained professionals who are supposed to use their brains mostly for the purpose for which they are trained. Effectively, such stringent rules make them robotic and they are likely to lose their humanistic part of the brains working effectively. Here too their free thought faculties go behind the bars! When they are freed of their robotic work programs, the immature among them are likely to cross their limits in meaning less pleasures making their bodies and minds weak!

It happens with most of the humans and it is not something special to the actors or the pilots. But a human being really becomes a human being when he or she learns to overcome and streamline the inherent animal instincts. Otherwise, there is not much difference between the animals and the humans!

What humans really need to learn in this short life in this earth is the art of living like a human and not as an animal.

And it is not so difficult!