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The Elephant Jungle Sanctuary offers visitors an enjoyable opportunity to spend quality time with elephants in their natural home, as well as gain an insight into their history and behavior, and create cherished lifelong memories of their time spent with these amazing animals.
Being allocated bananas and sugar cane to feed the elephants, you will walk with your guide through the Sanctuary, where you will find free-roaming elephants and hear their individual stories. You can touch, feed, photograph, and interact with the elephants at your leisure while you learn about their lifestyle and behaviors. After you have met all the elephants, you will enjoy watching them enjoy their mud spa. The elephants apply mud on the skin for healthy sunscreen and mo mud treatment to their skin. Next, you will walk with the elephants, shower them and join them in the water for a refresher. Brush the elephants while they wade through and play in the water.
Once the elephants are clean, you can take some final photos with them, and then it will be time to part ways with your new friend and change into some dry clothes.
Enjoy the company of elephants in the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary of Koh Samui. We promote the sustainable and ethical treatment of elephants and our elephant place is unique in Koh Samui.
Our qualified guides give our visitors a glimpse into the behavior and personal history of each elephant, while our mahouts help people to experience an incredible life experience, like bathing and feeding them by hand.
12.15-12.45 pm Pick up from your hotel or accommodation in Samui. Drive approximately 20-50 min.
13.00 pm Arrive at Elephant Jungle Sanctuary Samui. Enjoy a welcome snack, sip tea, or coffee, and learn about elephants as you are given an introduction to our program.
13.15 pm Assist with the preparation of natural dietary supplements for the elephants.
13.45 pm Meet the elephants. Feed them and administer dietary supplements as you learn their stories. Play, interact and take photos with the elephants in a natural setting.
14:00 pm Watch the elephant enjoy their Mud spa.
14.30 pm Swimming with elephants
1500 pm Join the elephants in our specially constructed outdoor “Elephant Shower”
15.45 pm Use our facilities to take a (regular) shower, dry off, and change clothes.
16:00 pm Eat a lunch of traditional Thai food, freshly cooked Pad Thai, and seasonal fruit, before saying goodbye to the friendly elephants.
16.30 pm Leave the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary Samui.
16.30-17.00 pm Drop off at your hotel or accommodation.
Discover the exhilaration of being up close and personal with our rescues! This program is perfect for anyone short of time who wants to meet elephants ethically. Just head over to our camps during feeding time and you can stay, take pictures, and interact with the elephants in their natural setting. What better way to spend your Samui trip than with our gentle giants?
Feeding Times:
We do service hotel pick-up 1 hour before trips start.
* Please Note: At the Sanctuary, we will allow you to spend as much time as possible with the elephants. Therefore, there is no formal schedule and aside from pick-up times, the times shown here are approximations.
Adult, 3,000 Thai Baht/person 12 years +
Child, 2,000 Thai Baht/person Child is aged 4 – 10 years.
(Manage Pick-up only in Chaweng, Bang-Rak, Bophut, and Maenam Zone)
Adult, 1,200 Thai Baht/person.
Children aged under 3 years are free
* 3 years & Under free of charge
* The Tour booking cannot be cancelled 24 hours before the trip starts/ the tour company will Charge full payment.
* On the other way of cancelling the trip/changing the date by tour company clause off bad weather, they will be refunded or change the date to another day under web Terms& Conditions.
| Pick up | Afternoon | Feed Me at 2.00 pm. | Feed me at 3.00 pm. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chaweng, Chaweng Noi | 12:15 Pm. – 12.30 Pm. | 2:15 Pm. – 2.30 Pm. | 3:15 Pm. – 32.30 Pm. |
| Lamai, Hua Thanon | 12:00 Pm. – 12.15 Pm. | No service | No service |
| Pai-leam. Cheongmon | 12:30 Pm. – 12.45 Pm. | 2:15 Pm. – 2.30 Pm. | 3:15 Pm. – 32.30 Pm. |
| Bang-Rak, Bophud Beach | 2:30 Pm. – 12.45 Pm. | 2:15 Pm. – 2.30 Pm. | 3:15 Pm. – 32.30 Pm. |
| Maenam Beach | 12:45 Pm. – 13.00 Pm. | 2:15 Pm. – 2.30 Pm.. | 3:15 Pm. – 32.30 Pm. |
The experience was a bit different from what was advertised and I expected but still it was very nice. There were only 4 elephants there, and the whole experience you get is feeding them a little bit (something for each of them basically). The whole experience lasted for about 30 minutes for us and not one hour as advertised. During the experience you can come very close to the elephants, touch them, feed them and take some photos. Staff members can also take photos on your phone. Personally I’d prefer to have more rounds of feeding but don’t know whether it’s aligned with the needs of the elephants. They seem to be taken care of well but the territory is still not as large. The staff were friendly. Price-wise it’s a bit high for Thailand but still worth it
The experience was a bit different from what was advertised and I expected but still it was very nice. There were only 4 elephants there, and the whole experience you get is feeding them a little bit (something for each of them basically). The whole experience lasted for about 30 minutes for us and not one hour as advertised. During the experience you can come very close to the elephants, touch them, feed them and take some photos. Staff members can also take photos on your phone. Personally I’d prefer to have more rounds of feeding but don’t know whether it’s aligned with the needs of the elephants. They seem to be taken care of well but the territory is still not as large. The staff were friendly. Price-wise it’s a bit high for Thailand but still worth it
The experience started off with a safety talk and backstory about each of the elephants we would get to see. Next we got to mix up some food for the elephants and hand feed them. Spent some time just observing them extracting with each other and ended the afternoon bathing them. Staff were super knowledgeable and friendly!