Interact with elephants in Phuket, Thailand! Highly recommend these two elephant camps!

Elephant camps are a unique experience in Thailand, especially for family trips. Unlike traditional zoos, Thai elephant camps focus on elephant conservation, allowing elephants to exhibit their natural behaviors in a spacious environment. Here, you can interact with elephants, become a mahout for a day, feed and bathe elephants, enjoy a mud bath spa, make paper from elephant dung, and more. Highly recommend these two elephant camps in Phuket! Phuket Elephant Sanctuary: Located near Bang Tao Beach, it takes 40 minutes from Patong Beach. You can book a pick-up service in advance from anywhere on the island. The camp is huge, covering over 100,000 square meters, with a great environment. They provide a set of Thai ethnic costumes and free photography throughout the experience. There is a Chinese guide to explain everything. Activities include making food for elephants, walking with elephants in the forest, taking photos, mud spa, elephant painting, elephant bathing, and cooking Thai food. Thai chefs will teach you how to make Thai food, usually papaya salad and pad Thai, which are classic dishes. The cooking process is very relaxing and fun. These two dishes are also included in lunch. Although other dishes are delicious, you will have a special preference for your own creations. After the experience, you will receive a souvenir made from elephant dung, which makes you feel recognized! Phuket Maewang Khao Elephant Sanctuary: Very close to Phuket Town, only a 20-minute drive. At the beginning of the activity, the staff will ask everyone to wear the same camp uniform and explain the relevant precautions and elephant habits in detail. The Chinese guide is very humorous and will say many witty words, making the whole journey full of laughter. Later, there will be activities such as giving elephants a mud bath, playing with elephants in the water, walking with elephants in the jungle, taking photos, making protein balls, tie-dyeing, and having a Thai buffet for lunch. You can choose the ingredients that elephants like to make protein grass balls to help elephants digest. After the trip, you will also receive a volunteer certificate, making it a fulfilling day!