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The Lake Phuket Elephant Nursery, Thailand

The Lake Phuket Elephant Nursery, Thailand: Our most recommended tours and activities

Phuket: Ethical Elephant Sanctuary Tour, Walk, and Lunch

1. Phuket: Ethical Elephant Sanctuary Tour, Walk, and Lunch

Enjoy a full-day tour to the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary in a small-group tour that is limited to just 10 people to ensure you get as much interaction with the elephants as possible. Start the tour with a morning pickup from your accommodation in Phuket. Take a 1-hour scenic drive, arriving at the sanctuary by around 8 AM. Meet your English-speaking guide, enjoy some snacks, and learn about the history and behavior of rescued elephants. Then, trek into the jungle with your guide 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. At 11 AM, stop to enjoy a delicious spread of home-cooked Thai food for lunch. After lunch, head back into the jungle to feed the animals their dietary supplements. Learn more deeply about each elephant and what it takes to keep them healthy and happy. Once you have met all the elephants, accompany them to a nearby mud spa. Get muddy with the elephants as you apply a healthy mud treatment to their skin. Then, walk with the elephants to a nearby lake and join them for a refreshing bath. Take a swim and help bathe and brush the elephants while they play in the water. At about 4 PM, take some final photos with the elephants before it is time to part ways and change into some dry clothes. Finally, eat some snacks and seasonal fresh fruits and head back to your hotel.

Phuket: Elephant Sanctuary Small Group Tour

2. Phuket: Elephant Sanctuary Small Group Tour

Discover the free-roaming elephants in a safe, sustainable, and ethical environment with this guided tour to the Lake Phuket Elephant Nursery. Travel from your hotel in Phuket in an airconditioned vehicle. Enjoy a delicious lunch and a cooking class during your tour.  Start your day with a pickup from your accommodation in a spacious vehicle. From there, take a scenic drive through jungle to the sanctuary. Meet your guide and learn a little more about the elephants before gathering up some bananas and cane sugar.  Follow your guide through the forest to where the elephants are resting up in the hills and watch as they happily eat the bananas and sugar cane. Walk with the elephants down from the hill. Touch, feed, photograph, and interact with these majestic creatures.  Learn about their lifestyle and behaviors from your guide. Go with the elephants to a nearby lake 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 take some final photos with them. Part ways with your new friend and change into some dry clothes. Sit down to a set menu lunch and a dish from a Thai Cooking Class. Eat seasonal fruits before heading back to your hotel.

From Phuket: Customize Your Own Phuket Beaches & City Tour

3. From Phuket: Customize Your Own Phuket Beaches & City Tour

Choose 3 to 4 of your favorite hotspots in Phuket and let your guide craft an itinerary for you. View the 3 beaches from Karon Viewpoint, see the 19th-century Buddhist temple of Wat Chalong, or gaze at the Andaman Sea at Promthep Cape. Learn the history and culture of Thailand from your guide. Select 3 to 4 of your favorite spots and customize your tour. Benefit from a professional guide who will choose the best tour schedule for you. Start your adventure as you are picked up at your hotel. Travel to Karon Viewpoint, Wat Chalong, or Promthep Cape and the Andaman Coast. Explore Phuket Old Town as your guide shows you the Sino-Portuguese houses of Thalang Road, appreciate the colorful buildings of Soi Romanee, and see Soi Soon Utis. Decide whether to go to Ao Sane Beach on the southwest of the island, which is famous for snorkeling. Take a trip to Chalong Bay Rum Distillery, where rum is produced using locally sourced sugarcane and a French copper still. Experience nature at Phuket Elephant Sanctuary, a safe haven for elephants. Witness the only evergreen forest of Phuket at Koh Phra Thaeo National Park. Experience Rock Beach Swing, or admire the big buddha, which is 148 feet tall. Finish up your custom trip as you are dropped off at your hotel.

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What people are saying about The Lake Phuket Elephant Nursery, Thailand

Overall rating

4.9 / 5

based on 91 reviews

We have been looking for an activity with elephants for a long time to make sure the elephants are doing well. We can only confirm that! It is a huge facility and the special relationship between the elephants and the staff is immediately apparent. It was worth every penny. Mainly because you get the feeling that it benefits the elephants and the whole organization there. Our guide took great pictures throughout the day, which we received for free at the end of the day. In addition, we were a very small group of 6 people, which allowed for a better relationship with the elephants. Can only recommend the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary in Phuket!

Absolutely trip of a lifetime, Annie our tour guide was fantastic she made our day magical, we started with learning about the elephants we had a walk in the jungle, feeding them throughout the day we had mud bath and swim with them, we also enjoyed a quick Thai cooking class and 2 lovely meals, we watched how they made the medicine and even how they dry the poop to make paper we had the best day

It was just a very nice experience. We were only 4 people and were able to move sensationally among the elephants, feed them and at the end bathe with them and take care of them. You could tell how the elephants enjoyed the brushing.

We fed the elephants, we walked in the jungle with them, we ate a great meal, we bathed with the elephants, learned to make a pad Thai…. and many others!

I‘ve had a wonderful day and thinking oder this experience will always make me smile!!