Awesome elephant tour! - This was a wonderful small group tour and we got to feed the elephants, take lots of pictures, and talk with the guides at length about the elephants. The elephants only do what they want to do, so very respectful of the animals. And each elephant has it’s own personality and you really get to see that on this tour. Highly recommend it!

Wonderful place for rescued elephants - It was a unique experience. We wish the tour would have lasted longer. :-)

A very ethical sanctuary... - A very ethical sanctuary which I️ really appreciated. Our tour guide was very informative and answered any questions we had. We learned the history of the elephants they have at the facility and had the opportunity to to feed them and walk alongside one of their older elephants.

Excellent and genuine ethical elephant sanctuary - We were wary of any excursions involving elephants as we only wished to visit an Ethical Elephant Sanctuary, absolutely not wishing to contribute to anything that would cause stress or anxiety to these beautiful animals. If you choose to do an elephant excursion then highly recommend this guided tour with Khao Lak Elephant Sanctuary which is definitely an ethical sanctuary. We got up close to 5 gorgeous female elephants who all had a sad back story until coming to this caring sanctuary. Each has their own personal carer who are trained in how to support them, they are fed a very healthy and plentiful diet, are taken on regular walks and also have freedom. All 5 elephants were in great health and appeared very happy and content with their new lives gaining confidence and living without fear. We learnt about their diet snd well being and went on a short walk with one of the elephants as we had chosen only the short small group guided tour. Take care not to visit any so called sanctuary that involves bathing the elephants as this is just way too stressful for them and thankfully this is absolutely not permitted at this sanctuary. We enjoyed many opportunities for photos taken by ourselves but also by our lovely guide.

Wonderful experience. - A wonderful experience. A proper sanctuary prioritising the residents welfare over income. No touching, hugging etc. The elephants are free to wander (and sometimes do when they smell the ripe fruit in nearby plantations). Only complaint is we’d have liked to stay longer.

Ethical sanctuary, 5 elephants all appear well cared for. Picked up from our hotel, short drive to sanctuary. We were placed in - Great couple of hours spent at the sanctuary. We were picked up from our hotel as agreed, put into small groups with a guide, we were able to feed the elephants snacks we had prepared and followed whilst elephant was led to the river. Our guide was knowledgeable and friendly, we felt the elephants were well cared for. Would recommend this trip if you are staying in the area

Good ethical elephant sanctuary - Very interesting visit to elephant sanctuary. We did the 1.5 hour experience which included hotel pick-up, the opportunity to feed several elephants and walk among the river trees with one of them. No touching, no bathing and no riding which was what we wanted. Mae, Tony and the gentleman who greeted us on arrival were very knowledgeable and informative and clearly cared deeply about the elephants

Magical - Really magical experience. The elephants are very well looked after, loads of space to roam free and never forced to do anything, they choose to go wherever they want and you just follow them which is great. The guides are very knowledgeable and you can tell they really care for the elephants here. Would definitely recommend.

Great experience - Really nice experience. The guide was very informative and took time to answer any questions and took plenty of photographs for each individual. The elephants are well looked after and it's nice to see that they can roam freely - one at a time.

Rip Off!! - One hour of which a lot was standing around doing nothing. For the price one needed more. If the issue was simply a donation to keep 5 rescued elephants going it should have been said. No real interaction with the elephants except to feed them a few small bananas from well back behind a fence. Was very good when one was brought down to bathe Nothing wrong with the staff. No crowd