Fun day at Samphran Elephant Ground and Crocodile Zoo

Included in our Damnoen Saduak Floating Market Tour was visiting the Samphran Elephant Ground and Crocodile Zoo.  The zoo wasn’t exactly a place where you can find or learn more about Thai culture or history, but it was entertaining altogether.

Kids and kids at heart loved watching the elephants worked like they were once used by Siamese and Burmese armies, and also had fun as they played football and showed some dancing skills.

The zoo also had a Crocodile show where man and crocodiles wrestle each other.  As I am writing this, I still remember watching uneasily. I felt like something horrible could happen with just a wrong move of the trainer or mood swing of the crocs.  Needless to say, I didn’t finish the performance. Haha!

As my Dad said, the tour package we bought online was ‘sulit’ or ‘getting what you paid for’ as Kris Aquino said in her TV commercial. So if you’re planning to check out the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market Tour, might as well arrange a trip to this zoo, especially if there are children with you. It‘s an added bonus for the 2-hour ride you’ll be taking back and forth Bangkok.

Hoping you'll have fun too, 

Gladys