Adventure

Ko Lanta Yai: Half-Day Ethical Elephant Sanctuary Tour

4.9 / 5

34 reviews

Activity provider: Lanta Tourist Center
Adventure

Ko Lanta Yai: Half-Day Ethical Elephant Sanctuary Tour

Activity provider: Lanta Tourist Center

From US$ 69.95 per person

Interact closely with friendly elephants and spend quality time bathing, feeding, and making medicinal supplements for them.

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Valid 1 day
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Live tour guide
English
Pickup optional
Please wait in your hotel lobby 10 minutes before the pickup time.

Experience

Highlights
  • Spend an amazing half-day interacting closely with the elephants at a sanctuary
  • Learn how to make medicinal supplements and feed the elephants
  • Take a dip in the water and help the elephants bathe
  • Learn how to make paper out of elephant dung and take it back as a souvenir
Full description
Start with pickup from your hotel in the morning or the afternoon, depending on the option selected. Upon arrival, your English-speaking tour guide will give you an introduction to the sanctuary and the elephants. Take some bananas and offer them to the elephants. Get acquainted with your new friends before hopping into the mud pool with them. Give the elephants a relaxing mud spa. Elephants naturally soak their skin with mud as a way to protect their skin from the sun, just like humans put on sunscreen. After the fun mud spa, enjoy bathing with the elephants in the water pool. Brush off the mud and exfoliate their skin to give them a relaxing pampering. Next, learn how to prepare food and herbal medicine for elephants. The herbal medicine is a mixture of multiple nutrient sources needed by elephants to stay healthy. They are like a supplement to their diet. Enjoy relaxing and feeding the elephants their herbal medicine. This is a perfect photo opportunity. Learn how to make eco-paper from elephant dung and take back the paper as a souvenir to show your friends and family.
Includes
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Fresh seasonal fruits
  • Tour guide
  • Drinking water
  • Food for elephants
  • Elephant dung paper souvenir
  • Showers
  • Changing rooms
  • Towels
  • Change of clothing
Not suitable for
  • Children under 4 years
  • Pregnant women
  • People with mobility impairments

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What to bring

  • Sun hat
  • Swimwear
  • Change of clothes
  • Towel
  • Sunscreen
  • Sandals
Customer reviews

Overall rating

4.9 /5

based on 34 reviews

Review summary

  • Guide
    4.9/5
  • Transportation
    4.7/5
  • Value for money
    4.5/5

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Great experience! The elephants did a routine and I would assume it's twice a day but the routine includes eating bananas, getting a mud bath and then a real clean bath. I believe they treat the elephants really well and are getting the best care after being used and abused, according to the sanctuary leader. It was a fabulous time and we got to be hands on with the elephants! I would recommend.

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March 24, 2023

Amazing experience. Coming from a country where you only get to see these animals in zoos, it was incredible to be able to interact with them up close and on their terms. Wonderful guides, who really care about the elephants and who were warm and very knowledgeable about the elephants. Would recommend this to anyone.

March 24, 2023

The most amazing, very ethical, real elephant sanctuary! Took me a long time to find it and I was starting to loose hope there is a place like that in South. So very glad I found you and thanks to you my husband and I fell in love with elephants❤️! It simply was the best experience ever, the highlight of our holidays in Thailand! Nothing else we did can compete with this unique and emotional half day spent at your sanctuary! You created an amazing place. Thank you to all the people that work there with gentle giants. You are simply amazing! We could tell from just being there for few hours how much love you have for elephants and how much passion and dedication for your job! Superstars! Your elephants are lucky to have you ❤️ I wish there was more places like that in Thailand and looking forward visiting next time when we are in koh Lanta ❤️

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March 24, 2023

Product ID: 335886