Ligers & Handstanding Elephants

I went to the Kinoshita Circus on Monday, where I saw all manner of things.

We originally went to go in at 11am, but it was sold out (on a weekday). So we brought tickets for around $50 a head, and decided to go to the 1:30pm show.

To fill time, we headed to Aeon and I also took out my last pile of cash from 7Eleven (which I can’t do on my Visa card anymore because the machine just spits it out now). After having champon for lunch and picking up a CD, we headed off to the circus.

While lining up, I commented to my host mum how everyone was wearing masks (all of the people behind us in the queue) until I realized that it was a group of disabled people that had come to see the show (ouch).

The circus was amazing, and had that royal British feeling it, and I was half expecting to see a line of cages with “freaks from all four corners of the world”. There was actually everything but.

I took photos, until I was told to stop (it was banned). I got one of the main attraction – ligers. They are a cross breed between a tiger and a lion, and are about twice the size of a tiger (massive). I thought that they were really rare, but obviously these two were born on the road at the circus (is what I’m guessing).

Ligers

How majestic. I don’t know how I feel about them being caged and made to do tricks, but I’m so pleased I saw them.

They also had elephants that could do handstands. I would have loved to have taken a photo, but I was told off for taking them right before the elephants came out. It was pretty funny, they were practically breakdancing.

In other news, a friend of mine has sourced some whale meat for me. Most people here don’t eat it and it is a little hard to get, but I’ll be blogging all about it when I finally get to eat it. I’m not saying that I support whaling or anything, but it’s already dead.

~ by carey on January 24, 2009.