Full-Day Phuket Elephant Sanctuary Tour with Lunch and Dinner
Activity provider: Phuket Elephant Sanctuary
Highlights
- Your morning starts with a video presentation on the history and plight of Asian elephants, after which our tour guide will take you to explore our...
This 7.5-hour day trip is built around Phuket Elephant Sanctuary, a 30-acre property bordering Khao Phra Thaeo National Park. The listing describes it as Phuket’s first ethical elephant sanctuary: there’s no riding and no forced bathing, and the day is built around observation. Guests start with a video presentation on the history and welfare of Asian elephants, then spend the morning watching the herd roam, play and bathe on their own terms, break for a vegetarian Thai lunch, and finish the afternoon at a hydrotherapy pool before helping prepare the elephants’ evening food.
Group size is capped at 10 to keep things calm around the animals, with Thai and English spoken on-site. The $215 price covers round-trip hotel transfers, welcome snacks with coffee and fruit, vegetarian Thai lunch and dinner, bottled water, rain coats, boots, socks, mosquito spray and a free T-shirt; infant seats are available on request.
- Duration: 7 hours 30 minutes
- Price from: $215
- Rating: 5.0 from 93 reviews
- Group size: max 10
- Includes: round-trip transfers, vegetarian lunch and dinner, snacks, rain gear, free T-shirt
- Cancellation: full refund up to 24 hours before departure
Watch out: the operator asks for at least a moderate level of physical fitness — this is a full day moving around a 30-acre property on foot, not a seated wildlife-viewing tour.
For a shorter visit to the same sanctuary, a 3.5-hour morning session skips the lunch-to-dinner commitment.
Itinerary
Your morning starts with a video presentation on the history and plight of Asian elephants, after which our tour guide will take you to explore our 30-acre sanctuary to observe the elephants as they roam, play and bathe freely. The morning ends with a delicious vegetarian Thai lunch. We then teach you about the intricate communication patterns of elephants and explore their natural habitat to learn more about their role as a keystone species in our ecosystem. Next, you will meet some of the gentle giants at the hydrotherapy pool and observe them enjoying their time in the water. Finally, you will help to prepare supplementary elephant food and enjoy a vegetarian meal yourself to end the day. The program includes 2 meals, soft drinks, water, juices, coffee and a complimentary T-Shirt.
Included
- water
- meals
- snacks
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Cancellation
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Before you go
• Specialized infant seats are available • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
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