- Thailand|1 Days Tour
The Half Day program invites guests to engage in a more interactive experience, including elephant bathing and mud spa activities, fostering a deeper connection with these majestic creatures in a responsible and enriching environment.
Pick up from your hotel or accommodation
Drive approximately 1.5 hours South of Chiang Mai through rolling hills, forest, and local farming areas.
Arrive at the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary.
Learn about the elephants and change into traditional Karen clothing.
Meet the elephants. Feed, interact, and play with the elephants in a natural environment as you learn about their behavior and history. Take photos with the elephants.
Mud Spa with the elephants
Walk with the elephants to a river and bathe them.
Eat a traditional meal and then say goodbye to the elephants.
Leave the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary and drive approximately 1.5 hours to Chiang Mai.
Drop off at your hotel or accommodation.
Day 1
A half-day package to 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.
You will be picked up from your place of accommodation and will drive for approximately 1.5 hours through scenic agricultural areas, hills, and forest, before arriving at the Sanctuary. There, you will meet your English-speaking guide and learn a little about the elephants, before changing into traditional Karen clothing.
After being allocated bananas and sugar cane to feed to 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 accompany them to a nearby mud spa. Get muddy with the elephants as you apply a healthy cosmetic mud treatment to their skin. Next, you will walk with the elephants to a nearby river and join them in the water for a refreshing bath. Take a swim and help bathe and 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 friends and change into some dry clothes. Finally, eat some snacks and seasonal fresh fruit, before enjoying once again the impressive rural scenery as you drive back to Chiang Mai.
What's included?
Food & drinks
Round-Trip Transfer to/from your Accommodation in Chiang Mai
English-Speaking Tour Guide
Lunch
Snacks
Drinking Water
Elephant Food
Please note
A free pick-up service is available within a 5 km radius of Chiang Mai Old Town. For locations beyond this area, a surcharge will apply.
Planning a trip with a group of 10 or more? Enjoy a 5% discount automatically applied at checkout
What do I need to bring?
Hat
Bathing Suit
Sunscreen
Insect Repellent
Towel
Change of Clothes
Walking Shoes
Copy of Passport Photo Page (or Passport Number)
Cancellation policy
We will charge a cancellation fee of 100% if booking is cancelled 1 day or less before the event
We will charge a cancellation fee of 50% if booking is cancelled 2 days or less before the event
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The Akha people immigrated and became citizens of Thailand in the early 1900s through China, Laos and Myanmar.
There are now 80,000 Akha people living in small villages in the mountains of Thailand. Akha people have their own traditions, culture and beliefs, different from the rest of Thailand, as many hill tribes do.
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