Sunday, March 9, 2008

Siam Ocean World


After we left the Grand Palace in Bangkok, we hopped in a taxi and headed for the Siam Paragon to visit Siam Ocean World. After walking through three different luxury shopping malls, we finally found the place we were looking for.

Siam Ocean World is the largest aquarium in Southeast Asia with 30,000-plus marine animals (seals, octopuses, sharks, stingrays, giant spider crabs, penguins, and more). It is HUGE, and very, very cool. The girls liked it, but they were very scared of the giant crabs. I had to hold Olivia's hand and pull her past that part of the aquarium while she squeezed her eyes shut and whimpered.

Dave and a crab

We also saw feeding demonstrations for various animals. The sharks were pretty neat to see, as were the turtles and sting rays.

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Turtle

Sting ray

Sting rays are pretty creepy! Check out this video I took:





We also took a ride on a glass-bottomed boat:

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William enjoyed himself, too:
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Dave and William

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