Afternoon Visit Elephant Jungle Sanctuary

On the afternoon of your visit, you will be 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 pool. Then you’ll join them in the water for a refreshing bath. Take a swim, 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 friend and change into some dry clothes. Finally, enjoy a delightful Thai buffet before saying one last goodbye to your new friends before being driven back to your hotel.

About Our Sanctuary

Phuket Elephant Sanctuary is a final home for retired working elephants, set on 30 acres of the lush tropical jungle. Observe how elephants rehabilitate into forest life after decades of abuse and experience how incredible the largest land mammal on earth is during a day at our sanctuary.

Our mission is to provide as many elephants as possible with good health, freedom, and happiness they truly deserve. We use our progressive and ethically responsible approach to elephant eco-tourism as a platform to raise awareness and educate people from Thailand and around the world about elephant care and the plight of the Asian elephant.

However, at the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary, we enforce a strict NO RIDING policy. We do not make our elephants work or perform, or do any activity outside their natural behaviors.

What to bring

Change of clothes and some good shoes or sandals that you don’t mind getting wet/dirty
Swimming suit
Sunscreen/hat/towel/insect repellent
Any medicines you require

PRICE INCLUDES

Pick-up/Drop off at your accommodation in Phuket
English-speaking tour guide
A traditional Thai buffet meal
Drinking water
Food for feeding elephants

We also offer an additional photography service at no extra charge. So, our photographers will take pictures throughout the day, and we will upload them to our Facebook page(Elephant Jungle Sanctuary) as soon as possible.

Download brochure: Elephant Jungle Sanctuary

Afternoon

11:30 – 12:30 pm: Pick up from your hotel or accommodation in Phuket.
12:30 pm: Drive North-West of Phuket Town to Naithon Beach, over rolling hills, through the forest and local farming areas, and alongside the picturesque coastline.
13:00 pm: Arrive at Elephant Jungle Sanctuary Phuket. 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.
13:30 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: Mud spa with the elephants.
14:30 pm: Swimming with elephants
15:00 pm: Join the elephants in our specially constructed outdoor “Elephant Shower”
15:20 pm: Use our facilities to take a (regular) shower, dry off, and change clothes.
15:30 pm: Eat a lunch of traditional Thai food, freshly cooked Pad Thai, and seasonal fruit, before saying goodbye to the friendly elephants.
16:00 pm: Leave the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary and drive for approximately 1 hour back through spectacular island scenery.
17:00-17:30 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.

PICK-UP and DROP OFF FEE

Kata, Karon, Patong, Kamala, Nai Yang, Bang Tao, Surin Beach	Free
Mai Khao	Free
Rawai, Chalong, Cape Panwa, Cape Tukkae, Koh Sire, Laemhin, Rawai, Phromthep Cape, or Nai Harn Beach	Free
Airbnb lodging, rental villas, private houses	No pick-up visitors will be responsible for self-arranged transportation to 1. Elephant Jungle Sanctuary office (Patong) OR 2. Designated Meeting Area (Naithon) 3. Designated Meeting Area (Kathu waterfall)
Rassada Pier, Sea Angel Pier, Ao Po Grand Marina Pier	No pick-up. Visitors will be responsible for self-arranged transportation to 1. Elephant Jungle Sanctuary office (Patong) OR 2. Designated Meeting Area (Naithon) 3. Designated Meeting Area (Kathu waterfall) Drop off to Pier – 500 thb/per person (Must inform a day in advance)
Visitors staying outside of Transfer Zone	Visitors will be responsible for arranging transport either to a designated meeting point in the Nai Thon area (200 thb discount applicable via online bookings only)
Phuket International Airport Please inform a day before your visit if you need airport drop off and how much luggage you will have	Pick up – Self-arranged to the designated meeting point at NaithonDrop-off – to Phuket International Airport + 300 thb per person + 500 thb (a group of 2-9 passengers)

Visitors who arrange their own transportation to the meeting point, either at Ban Nai Thon school or Kathu waterfall and request to be dropped off at another location, will incur an additional transport charge of 1,000 baht for a group of up to nine people.

(Please note that the fare for a taxi or other mode of transport to the chosen meeting point is payable by the visitor and Elephant Jungle Sanctuary Phuket will not pay for transport or reimburse costs incurred)

Ages:

INFANT 0-3 YEARS FREE
Child 4-11 years old
Adults 12+ years old