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Phuket Elephant Sanctuary: Experience the Ethical Approach to Elephant Tourism
4.9
166 Ratings
Paklok
Experience the ethical approach to elephant tourism at Phuket Elephant Sanctuary. Support a sustainable and compassionate environment where elephants roam freely and receive professional care.
Duration:
3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Phuket Elephant Sanctuary - Skip the unethical elephant encounters in Phuket and visit a sanctuary where the animals are allowed to live their final years roaming freely without being harmed by tourists. Located on 30 acres of lush, tropical land bordering the Khao Phra Thaeo National Park in North East Phuket, visiting the Phuket Elephant Sanctuary helps support their mission of compassionate and ethical elephant tourism.
What's Included
- Dinner
What's Not Included
- Roundtrip Transfers - If option is not selected
Additional Information
Phuket Elephant Sanctuary is Phuket’s premier and exclusive ethical elephant sanctuary where elephants can freely wander, bathe, and interact in a 30-acre expanse of lush tropical land adjacent to the Khao Phra Thaeo National Park in Northeast Phuket. We exclusively purchase rescued elephants to ensure that they find their permanent home at Phuket Elephant Sanctuary, and we also provide expert veterinary care for elderly and wounded elephants. When you choose to visit us, you advocate for an ethical, sustainable, and compassionate elephant tourism model that respects the elephants’ natural lifestyle. Our ethical stance has received accolades from National Geographic, Lonely Planet, and The Guardian.
Location
Phuket Elephant Sanctuary
Phuket Elephant Sanctuary, 100, Moo 2, Paklok, Phuket, Thailand.
If you selected Program Only (No Transfer), please meet us at our office in Paklok. Parking is available.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(166 Ratings)
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Sheilacy3330yp
Apr 23, 2024
Beautiful job - These fuys do an amazing job rescuing these elephants from touristic entertainment. Everything they do is put the elephants first.
Go, book a tour, help out.
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Miriam_m
Apr 20, 2024
This was an incredible... - This was an incredible experience!!!
Manny was great, very friendly, funny and helpful with understanding the local area on our trip to the sanctuary.
The staff at the sanctuary were so kind and welcoming. They all showed so much love to the elephants!! You can see how passionate they are and how much they care for the elephants well being.
The sanctuary is exactly that! It’s beautiful!! A great home for these majestic animals to live calm and peaceful lives.
I enjoyed every moment and I will most definitely come back again!
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Meganet6177df
Apr 15, 2024
Must do!!! - Absolutely incredible once in a lifetime experience!! You HAVE to do it if you’re in Phuket! It was amazing to see exactly where your money goes, but sad to hear all the stories! Thank you for rescuing and giving these gorgeous animals another fun and free life! Food is incredible and so much choice and variety- including going through each dish with me due to lactose intolerance 🥹 thank you all involved, especially our tour guide Tomas, who was very informative and a great laugh!
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Bensa5212hi
Apr 8, 2024
A great and responsible experience. - Amazing experience. I feel ashamed that 15 years ago, for my first trip in Thailand I felt for a tourist trap where they make you ride elephants in a camp. Today, I feel better experiencing a connection with elephants in a more educated and responsible manner.
What I I have more interigation about is that tourist are visiting the sanctuary everyday of the year, I am not sure how this impact the peacefulness of the elephants. BUT, overall, I felt like this experience was respecting and helping the old elephants. Bonus : the food was excellent and the staff really friendly.
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H123sylaurent
Apr 8, 2024
An Amazing Experience - Such an amazing experience! We were greeted with drinks and snacks and a short presentation on the history of the sanctuary. The tour guide was so friendly and introduced the group to all of the elephants, giving us time to watch each of them and take pictures if we wanted. We were able to feed them at the end of the walking tour and were then given a cold towel and a hot meal. Really recommend this tour to everyone who would like to see elephants happy in a natural environment!
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Cisemio
Apr 8, 2024
The best experience ever! - Amazing place with amazing environment and staff! Here is the real elephant sanctuary. All rules are depending on respect to elephant natural habitat. So happy to be here and highly recommended!
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Fozzyp
Apr 5, 2024
A great way to give back - I have always known of the abuse of elephants. Finding out there is a place that rescues them and lets them enjoy life is so heart warming. My favorite thing was watching them eat watermelon.
Even if you don’t manage to get here please consider donating.
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September_k
Apr 4, 2024
Once and a love time e experience - This place is really special. They save elephants and treat them with the respect they deserve. Highly recommend and don’t go to the shows or where they ride them, that’s a terrible cause to support instead go here. The start was great too.
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Kerstinwl7522vy
Apr 1, 2024
Happy Place for Elephants - My boyfriend and i really liked our trip to the Elephant Sanctuary in Phuket. The people who are working at the Sanctuary treat the Elephants with respect. In our opinion it is the only place you should go, if you want to see happy and well treated Elephants. No riding, no bathing, no forcing the Elephants to do something just for show. It was a very nice experience.
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Cruiser60071290069
Mar 29, 2024
Amazing experience - We had the most wonderful experience with a fantastic guide! You get to be very close to the elephants and are informed about their behaviours, where they are from and so on. Lunch and snacks were included and we got to feed the elephants some fruit in the end. An afternoon we will remember forever. Felt very professional and serious. We will come back! Highly recommend.
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