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Get full refund if you cancel 24 hours before the experience start time.
Book now without paying anything. Cancel for free if your plans change.
Get full refund if you cancel 24 hours before the experience start time.
Book now without paying anything. Cancel for free if your plans change.
Get full refund if you cancel 24 hours before the experience start time.
Book now without paying anything. Cancel for free if your plans change.
Get full refund if you cancel 24 hours before the experience start time.
Book now without paying anything. Cancel for free if your plans change.
Get full refund if you cancel 24 hours before the experience start time.
Book now without paying anything. Cancel for free if your plans change.
Choose from six elephant care programs with feeding, mud spa, bathing, and Thai cultural activities.
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The Sakhu Elephant Care Sanctuary Phuket offers different ways to learn about elephant care, from short feeding and painting sessions to half-day and full-day programs with activities such as mud spa, bathing, rice making and Thai cooking.
Choose the program that fits your schedule and preferred activities. Depending on your selection, you can join a morning or afternoon session, spend a full day at the sanctuary, or take part in a shorter feeding and painting program. Hotel transfers are included with the listed options, while the Short Elephant Feeding and Painting Program specifies hotel pickup by minivan. Check the inclusions for your chosen option before setting out.
Spend the day learning about elephant care through a combination of outdoor activities and hands-on experiences. The full-day program includes a jungle walk with a planting activity, elephant bathing and a Thai cooking class.
Jungle walk and planting: Take part in the outdoor walk and planting activity included in the full-day program
Elephant bathing: Join the bathing activity as part of the full-day itinerary
Thai cooking class: Participate in a cooking class during your visit
Meals and refreshments: Enjoy a Thai-style buffet lunch, drinks and fruits
The morning and afternoon half-day programs combine rice making with an elephant bathing activity. Both options list hotel transfers, a Thai-style buffet lunch, drinks and fruits, an English-speaking guide, a towel and basic accident insurance.
Rice making: Take part in the rice-making activity included in the selected half-day program
Bathing activity: Join the elephant bathing experience
Lunch and refreshments: Have a Thai-style buffet lunch, with drinks and fruits included
Choose a morning or afternoon session focused on feeding elephants and a mud spa. These programs include hotel transfers, an English-speaking guide, a towel, basic accident insurance, drinks and seasonal fruits.
Elephant feeding: Participate in the feeding activity
Mud spa: Take part in the mud spa experience
Refreshments: Enjoy drinks and seasonal fruits during the program
For a shorter visit, choose the elephant feeding and painting program. This option includes a photo session and a magnetic elephant painting souvenir activity. Hotel pickup by minivan from Phuket, along with coffee, tea and a fruit snack, is listed among its inclusions.
Feeding and photos: Take part in the elephant feeding and photo session
Painting activity: Create a magnetic elephant painting souvenir
Refreshments: Have coffee, tea and a fruit snack
Your experience ends according to the program you select. Before booking, compare the activity schedule and inclusions carefully, especially the meal arrangements and transfer details. The Short Elephant Feeding and Painting Program lists hotel pickup, but does not specify return transfers in the supplied details.
Choose from 1-hour feeding visits, mud spa sessions, or full-day elephant care tours at Phuket Elephant Care.
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Entry to Phuket Elephant Care Camp
English-speaking guide
Photographer
Learn about elephant behavior and ecotourism
Prepare food and hand-feed elephants
DIY souvenir making
Insurance
Coffee, tea, drinking water, and snacks
Private full-day elephant care tour (as per option selected)
Round-trip hotel transfers (as per option selected)
Mud spa with elephants (as per option selected)
Shower with elephants (as per option selected)
Bathing with elephants (as per option selected)
Thai lunch (as per option selected)
Learn how elephants are cared for through keeper-led activities, natural food preparation, and guided forest observation.
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Small-group elephant learning experience
Phuket area hotel pickup or Patong, Tri Trang, and Kalim hotel pickup (as per option selected)
Expert English-speaking guide
Elephant care and welfare introduction
Natural food preparation activity
Guided forest observation walk
Drinking water
Insurance
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Choose your elephant care experience in Phuket, from short feeding sessions to half-day mud spa and bathing programs.
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Entry to Elephant Jungle Sanctuary
Elephant feeding
English-speaking guide
Insurance
Round-trip hotel transfers (as per option selected)
Shower with elephants (as per option selected)
Mud spa with elephants (as per option selected)
Elephant interaction and photos (as per option selected)
Herbal ball activity (as per option selected)
Pad Thai activity (as per option selected)
Thai lunch (as per option selected)
Drinks and seasonal fruits (as per option selected)
Traditional Thai buffet (as per option selected)
Complimentary drink (as per option selected)
Jungle viewing platform (as per option selected)
Elephant treats (as per option selected)
Thai cooking activity (as per option selected)
Observe elephants respectfully and discover local rubber-making traditions during a short visit with hotel transfers.
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Round-trip hotel transfers from selected Phuket areas
English-speaking guide
Rubber tapping demonstration
Rubber sheet-making demonstration
Insurance
Choose an ACES-certified Phuket Elephant Care visit, from a short feeding session to a full-day program.
Inclusions #
Entry to Phuket Elephant Care Sanctuary
Experienced sanctuary staff
Learn about elephant care and conservation
Interaction with elephants in their natural environment
Elephant feeding (as per option selected)
Prepare food for elephants (as per option selected)
Mud spa with elephants (as per option selected)
Bathe and shower with elephants (as per option selected)
Jungle walk with elephants (as per option selected)
Thai cooking class (as per option selected)
Thai lunch (as per option selected)
Snacks (as per option selected)
Choose between Bukit Elephant Park visits and a Phuket Elephant Sanctuary canopy walk with elephant feeding.
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Entry to selected elephant sanctuary
English-speaking guide
Observe elephant behavior
Learn about elephant history and habits
Feed bananas (as per option selected)
Prepare and feed rice balls (as per option selected)
Take photos with elephants (as per option selected)
Jungle walk with elephants (as per option selected)
Guided canopy walkway (as per option selected)
Hand-feed elephants fruit (as per option selected)
Rubber sheet-making demonstration (as per option selected)
Coconut-milk cooking demonstration (as per option selected)
Thai cooking demonstration (as per option selected)
Thai lunch (as per option selected)
Signature iced soda and snacks (as per option selected)
Drinking water (as per option selected)
Umbrellas and raincoat (as per option selected)
Complimentary Phuket Elephant Sanctuary souvenir (as per option selected)
Round-trip hotel transfers (as per option selected)
Feed elephants at Lily Elephant Sanctuary, a small seaside sanctuary with optional bathing experiences.
Inclusions #
Entry to Lily Elephant Sanctuary
Expert English-speaking guide
Elephant feeding
Food and beverages
Insurance
Outdoor rain shower (as per option selected)
Sea bathing (as per option selected)
Beach and jungle walks (as per option selected)
Lunch (as per option selected)
Hotel pickup and drop-off (as per option selected)
Choose how to meet Phuket's elephants, from guided canopy walks and feeding sessions to bathing experiences and volunteer programs.
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Entry to Phuket Elephant Sanctuary (as per option selected)
Entry to Elephant Jungle Sanctuary (as per option selected)
Entry to Lily Elephant Camp (as per option selected)
Entry to Phuket Elephant Care (as per option selected)
Guided walk on Thailand’s longest canopy walkway (as per option selected)
Guided walk to observe elephants (as per option selected)
Visit to Phuket’s elephant hospital (as per option selected)
Educational elephant documentary (as per option selected)
One-day volunteer program (as per option selected)
Volunteer activities (as per option selected)
Feed elephants with fruit and vegetables (as per option selected)
Bathe with elephants (as per option selected)
Access to showers and changing facilities (as per option selected)
Round-trip transfers from Phuket (as per option selected)
Expert English-speaking guide (as per option selected)
Signature iced soda (as per option selected)
Snacks (as per option selected)
Drinking water (as per option selected)
Coffee and tea (as per option selected)
Food and beverages (as per option selected)
Two vegetarian meals (as per option selected)
Accident insurance (as per option selected)
Umbrellas, raincoats and mosquito spray (as per option selected)
Complimentary sanctuary souvenir (as per option selected)
Volunteer T-shirt and bottle bag (as per option selected)
Magnetic elephant souvenir painting (as per option selected)
