It's called the Tiger Rally and has lived up to its name. Yesterday morning we visited the Tiger Temple at 7.00 just after the Tigers had been fed. These are wild tigers being looked after by volunteers to try and save the Thailand Tiger from poachers and big game hunters.
It's an amazing place and humans are encourage ( in more ways than one) to interact with the Tigers big and small. These guys in the photo below are having quite a fight in the water and then a few minutes later Julie and I are stroking one of the biggest.
One of team put his hand in the wrong place and trust me these are very fast and very powerful cats. They say they should be able to stick his arm back on :)
Moving onto yesterday's test, this was about 19 Klm long up a narrow mountain road, with trucks, cars coaches etc all deciding to use it. Remember what I said about pulling out in front of purple cars, well, it really came into play on this run. We had to average 49 kph, we managed that till the last 50 yes and did not see that the finish line had been moved :( ended up finishing some 17 sec over our time.
However others also had problems and after the 1st week of the rally we have moved UP to 4th which is quite incredible and we are finding hard to believe.
Molly now has proper petrol and is running fine. There should be some great footage of us overtaking a double length truck on a blind bend with a sheer drop on MY side.
Adrenalin running at 100%, fantastic run followed by some of the most breath taking scenery you could imagine.
