Absolutely brilliant! If you love elephants or indeed wildlife, this is a must! Reliant on charity they do fantastic work looking after 8 elephants. You get up and close, walking with them into the jungle, feeding them bananas and pineapples and fonallybathing with them. You get your own personal elephant and handler whilst your there. Drinks and lunch can be provided. Must do activity.

Wow! I have to say this was THE best thing we have done so far on our Thailand trip! The volunteers Anna & Matt are so friendly and knowledgeable and all the staff even though they speak limited English were wonderful and friendly. You could see the elephants were very happy and well cared for and loved to be fed the bananas and play in the rock pool. If you do 1 thing in Khao Lak you MUST do this!!!

We absolutely loved our day at this elephant sanctuary. The staff were all kind and caring to the elephants but allowed us to interact with them and helped us feel confident around such huge animals. Matt was a great guide and really facilitated an amazing day for us. It was incredible to walk in the jungle and feed the elephants - we felt like we got to know their personalities and felt very privileged to spend time so close up with them. Whole family of animal lovers were in our element. Brilliant day.

What an amazing experience! I believe this is a very ethical place and really care about the elephants. They allow human interaction, but the elephants are in control and can totally turn their backs or walk away. There are 8 female elephants and we spent time with two of them, Jana and Nam-Tan. Both adorable! We walked next to them, gave them snacks (bananas, pineapples, sugar cane) and bathed them. They seemed to really enjoy it, and it was magical to us, to be so close! The tour included a yummy lunch, the facilities were comfortable, and staff was very friendly. Totally recommend it!!

This is such an awesome experience! Ammy, Matt and the rest of the team were very kind and knowledgeable. The tours are in small groups which makes the experience more personable and less stressful for the elephants. It can be a bit intimidating choosing an “ethical” sanctuary, but rest assure this park truly cares about these gorgeous animals. I highly recommend this tour!

What a wonderful place for Elephants to reside, had the half day care package & it was faultless, just the 2 of us walking with our Elephant "Ploysuay" through jungle surroundings, then prepared some food to feed her from a raised rocky platform amazing, then a gentle walk back to a pool area to give her a good wash & scrub which she seemed to thoroughly enjoy. After showering we were treated to a wonderful lunch to end our day. A special mention for Dong our Mahout a truly wonderful young man 5 ⭐ Highly recommend

This was without doubt one of the best trips I have ever done. We were very careful about visiting an Elephant Reserve and did a great deal of research before we selected this one. At no point did we feel that the elephants were being coerced into doing something they didn’t want to do and it was very clear that their wellbeing and welfare was the reserves ultimate priority. We were given a full explanation as to how elephants and the Thai people were intertwined over history and how and why that continues to this day. If you want to experience anything like this whilst in Thailand, go here, don’t be tempted by cheaper poor imitations.

Visited here as part of a longer day trip so was only a short visit. The elephants all seemed happy in both their main enclosure and when they came to us for feeding. I feel that if you visit a zoo then visiting here was no different, the staff clearly have a great bond with their animals and they are well looked after. A once in a lifetime experience to interact with these beautiful animals

What an amazing experience, if you want to go see Elephants when in Thailand I can highly recommend this park. On entry I cried with joy at seeing the elephants bathing and you could see they were really enjoying it, quite playful. You could see the elephants were well cared for and they had very a huge natural enclosure. Saiparn greeted us and explained about the elephants and their life at the park, some had previously come from the logging industry and retired there. We feed them and bathed them in a large pool, what a fabulous experience, when do you get to do that in the UK. I would have gone everyday if we could have. The elephants are so gentle and enjoyed a good bathe. I easily observed the relationship the Mahouts have with their elephants, it is very strong and quite wonderful. A lovely send off too with a refreshing drink, fresh fruit and a gift of a framed photo of your time with the elephants to take way. Fantastic value for money and a day I will never forget . Thank you Saiparn and your team... Hope to return one day...

What a morning, we chose the dawn excursion, which consisted of being collected from our hotel, driven to the sanctuary, greeted by the tour guides with fresh coffee and a general chat. After this we walked into the jungle/forest across a river to find our elephant, we were allocated a beautiful elephant Tangthai, a 17 year old female, who was so pleased to see us, making some excited noises as we walked up with the mahout (elephant guide) we spent the next 20 minutes or so being introduced to Tangthai and a couple of other Elephants that we would spend the morning with, it was 1 elephant per couple, meaning you get plenty of interaction with your elephant. Taking lots of pictures and lots of rubbing and stroking. Our elephants then led us the way back to the park. Once back at the park, the mahouts quickly showed us a health check, these animals are so intelligent!! We went on to then feed Tangthai some sweet treats - Banana and Pineapple, she seemed to love these and it was a great time to get some incredible photos! After this it was bath time, the elephants again led the way into the wash pool, some more mischievous than the others, at one point one of the elephants fully dived in and submersed herself, she was the youngest elephant in our group at 6 years old so perhaps showing her age!!! The elephants loved their bath, cradling in as you give them a good scratch and closing their eyes as if a sign to show they are enjoying it (a little bit like a dog does when you give them a scratch behind the ear!) And as we and the elephants left the pool, another great photo op, Tangthai and 2 of the other elephants who were part of our group decided to start a water fight spraying all with their trunks! We were then able to use the showers on site and were laid out a lovely lunch! Before coming out to Thailand, it has and always be a hot topic on ‘ethical’ elephant parks and sanctuaries - I can safely say that these elephants are so happy, incredibly well looked after and it is easy to see the bond between the elephants and their Mahouts. The Elephants have vast grounds to forage, and we saw the bonds also between the elephants, including the aforementioned 6 year old, winding up the grandmother of the group (70 years old!!)as we walked past her, making sure to give her a poke with her trunk! A truly incredible experience and as someone who is an animal lover of all kinds, I can only say I came away feeling really happy with how the elephants are cared for! If you chose the dawn/dusk experience which means you walk through the river - I’d recommended wearing crocs or trainers you don’t mind getting wet! And also mosquito repellent as you trek a little while into the jungle/forest!