A tourist poses for a photograph on a larger-than-life sized figure of a gorilla made of rice straw.

Niloufar Saleem, Staff Reporter

An amusement park situated on the shores of Thailand’s Huay Tueng Thao lake outside Chiang Mai has life-size figures of animals made of rice straw.

 A tourist takes a selfie in front of a figure of an elephant made of rice straw. 

The giant straw animals are the latest initiative of the park to invite tourists amid the coronavirus pandemic.

 A tourist sits in front of a larger-than-life sized figure of a wild boar.

The tourists visiting the amusement park enjoy taking beautiful pictures with the giant straw sculptures.

 Tourists take photographs of larger-than-life sized figures of animals made of rice straw.

The animal sculptures include the gorilla, elephant, wild boar, lion, deer, and many more.

 A tourist takes photographs of a child posing on a swing in the shape of a gorilla head.

Thailand, a country that survives on the tourists that fly in and out, has seen a downfall in their tourism sector after the coronavirus pandemic occurred.