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A half-day package to the Elephant 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.
After 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. Finally, eat some snacks and seasonal fresh fruit before enjoying the impressive rural scenery once again as you drive back to the hotel.
Kham San is a female elephant, born around 1967 in Surin, Northeast Thailand. She was initially used in the logging industry until the government ban in 1989. Kham San then followed the treacherous movement of life after logging into a life of trekking, providing numerous exhausting rides every day for tourists. In 2002, she was moved to Koh Samui where she continued to be used to provide rides to tourists.Kham San was rescued and brought to our sanctuary on Thursday 28th December 2017. She now spends her days adjusting to her new life where she never has to worry about being forced to work again. Instead, she is provided with the rehabilitation she needs and the more natural life she so deserves.Kham San can be recognized by the hole in her right ear, which was inflicted upon her by the previous mahout as a means to control her.
Cartoon (San Kham), a female elephant, is a much-loved member of our herd. She was born around 1962 in Surin in northeast Thailand. The cartoon was first used in the logging industry until this was finally banned by the Government in 1989. She was then forced into the tourism industry where life consisted of providing gruelling rides for tourists in the heat, hour after hour, day after day.
The cartoon was brought to Koh Samui around 2002 and continued providing tourist rides until she was rescued to live at our sanctuary on Monday 1st January 2018, joining our happy herd.
She now spends her days roaming happily throughout the sanctuary. Her favourite activities are foraging for food and socializing with the herd as she embraces her new life, is surrounded by nature, and is treated with love and respect. She is safe for the rest of her life, which happily, is now a dignified one.
Mae Kham Pang is a female elephant born around 1963 in Chiang Mai Province in the north of Thailand. Initially, she was put to work in the logging industry then her owner moved her to the tourist industry to give rides to tourists. For over five decades, Mae Kham Pang’s life revolved around providing rides to as
many guests as possible each day to earn her keep at the trekking camp. She was then moved from the north of Thailand to Pattaya, where there was a high demand among tourists to ride an elephant and watch them perform.
On Friday, July 20, 2018, we heard Mae Kham Pang’s story and talked to the owner to negotiate her release. Following successful negotiations, we rescued Mae Kham Pang so that she could join the herd at Samui Elephant Sanctuary a week later.
Mae Kham Pang loves to eat and we are ensuring she has a large variety of nutritious food to devour. Based on her eating patterns and overall condition, it is likely that before being rescued, food was not readily available for her.
Mae Kham Pang still carries injuries to her feet, and her nails are permanently damaged as a result of having to carry tourists up the mountain multiple times every day. She also has an injury to her tail, which is extremely short. The cause of this remains unclear. Welcome to your loving forever home Mae Kham Pang!
Khum Phelan was born in 1958 in Tak province in Western Thailand. Her life followed the course of
most captive elephants, initially working in the logging industry and then providing rides to tourists every day for about 30 years in Pattaya. She was rescued and brought to Samui Elephant Sanctuary on 27th June 2018. She loves to play in the mud pit and scratch herself against the trees. At the trekking camp, she was kept on a short chain in-between providing rides to tourists in what must have seemed like an endless cycle. At our sanctuary, for the first time, she has been afforded the freedom to exhibit natural behaviours. Every night, when she returns to her chain-free night shelter, she lays down to sleep and we can only imagine how good it must feel for her to be free of chains. Khum Phelan prefers to spend her time alone from the herd, but we hope that in time she will find a friend here.
Kaew Ta was born in 1963 in Surin Province in northeast Thailand. Her early life was spent labouring in the logging industry under gruelling conditions. In 1989, the logging ban was implemented in Thailand and elephant owners looked for an alternative source of income.
It was at this point that Kaew Ta was moved by her owner to service tourists with rides at a trekking camp. Approximately 20 years ago, Kaew Ta was moved to Koh Samui where her life of drudgery continued; chained to a tree until a guest arrived to ride her around the same route each time.
Kaew Ta is blind in her left eye as a result of failing to follow a command given by her mahout. He brutally punished her by striking her directly in the eye with a sharp object.
As a result of not receiving adequate food, Kaew Ta arrived at Samui Elephant Sanctuary on 13th June 2018 extremely malnourished and exhausted.
Despite all the adversity she has faced in her life before coming to the sanctuary she is very friendly towards people but at the moment prefers to stay alone away from the rest of the herd. She loves to play in the pool and the mud pit, basic rights that have been denied to her for decades. Welcome to your new life, Kaew Ta!
| Pick -up | Itinerary information |
|---|---|
| 12.15-12:45 Pm | Pick up from your hotel or accommodation in Samui. |
| 12.45 pm | 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 elephant enjoy their Mud spa. at |
| 14:30 pm | Swimming with elephants |
| 15:00 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. |
* 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.
Trips are not suitable for pregnant women, feeding elephant food it will be trouble. We recommend avoiding it. The tour company will not accept the trip.
Adult, 3,000 Thai Baht/person 12 years +
Child, 1,900 Thai Baht/person Child is aged 11 years & Under.
* 4 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 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 | Morning | Afternoon |
|---|---|---|
| Chaweng beach | 08.00 Am. – 08.30 Am. | 13:00 Pm. – 13.30 Pm. |
| Hua Thanon beach | 07:15 Am. – 07.30 Am. | 12:30 Pm. – 13.00 Pm. |
| Cheongmon beach | 08:30 Am. – 08.40 Am. | 13:00 Pm – 13.15 Pm. |
| Bophud Beach | 08:00 Am. – 08.30 Am. | 13:00 Pm – 13.15 Pm. |
| Maenam Beach | 08:00 Am. – 08.30 Am. | 12:50 Pm – 13.10 Pm. |
We Have no service pick-up for Airbnb lodging, rental villas, private houses, Samui International Airport, and Visitors staying outside of the Transfer Zone/ Please Come down and wait in front of the nearby hotel entrance.
Or traveler will be responsible for self-arranged transportation to the meeting point at the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary office Morning time at 08.00 am., and afternoon time at 12.00 pm.
