🐘 Elephant Retirement Park Chiang Mai – Ethical Elephant Experience
Overview
Discover a heartwarming experience at Elephant Retirement Park in Chiang Mai.This ethical sanctuary is home to rescued elephants from logging and tourist industries.No riding, no shows—just meaningful interaction and education. Enjoy feeding, walking with, and bathing elephants in a natural setting.
Duration
Half Day Morning
Pick up : 07.00 - 07.30 AM
Drop off : 12.00 - 12.30 PM.
Full Day
Pick up : 08.30 - 09.00 AM.
Drop off : 04.00 - 05.00 PM
Highlights
- Spend a meaningful day at an ethical elephant sanctuary
- Enjoy feeding, walking, and bathing rescued elephants
- Includes vegetarian Thai buffet lunch
- Free photos uploaded to Facebook
- No elephant riding, no shows – 100% ethical experience
Program Detail
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Pick-up from your hotel by shared air-conditioned van.
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Learn about the elephants and the park
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Prepare food & herbal medicine, feed the elephants
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Jungle walk with elephants
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Mud & water bath, sand play
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Vegetarian Thai lunch
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Return to Chiang Mai
💡 About Elephant Retirement Park
This ethical sanctuary rescues and rehabilitates elephants from abusive industries. Here, elephants roam freely, enjoy mud baths, and interact gently with guests — no riding, no shows, just real care. Visitors are educated on conservation and invited to participate in daily routines like feeding, bathing, and jungle walks.
Inclusion
- English-speaking guide
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Breakfast (half day only)
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Drinking water
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Bananas & sugarcane for elephants
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Travel insurance
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Free photos uploaded on Facebook
- Hotel pick-up and drop-off within a radius of 5 km from the Three Kings. Monument.
- Insurance: To ensure insurance coverage for accidents, we kindly request a copy of your passport. Please send it to us via email or WhatsApp at least one day before the tour begins.
- Reservations are required at least two days in advance. For last-minute bookings one day before tours start, kindly contact us.
Pick-up Information:
✨ Free hotel pick-up & drop-off within 5 km of Three Kings Monument
📍 Staying outside the area? Simply choose a convenient meeting point (click images for directions)
🤍 No worries if you don’t select one — we’ll arrange the nearest pick-up point for you
📌 Final pick-up details will be confirmed after booking
If you choose a meeting point, please fill in the booking form as follows:
Hotel Name for Pickup: Meeting point name
Address for Pickup: Meeting point
Exclusion
- Soil Milk for baby elephant (40THB)
- Minivan Seat for Infant (500THB)
- Any other expenses not mentioned in the package.
- Tips and gratuities
Preparation
- Chronic disease medicine.
- Hat (depends on you).
- Raincoat (for raining season)
- Camera
- Swimwear or bathing suit
- Sunscreen
- Insect repellent
- Towel (there are provided towels)
- Pick-up time may be delayed due to traffic.
- This itinerary is subject to change due to weather or interruptions.
- All the timings provided are approximate.
- This is a join-in group tour .
- This tour includes travel insurance provided by the operator.
- This tour start in Chiang Mai
- This tour is operated by our business partner(s).
- Please make sure to enter the exact hotel name as shown on Google Maps when booking, so we can arrange your pick-up correctly.
- If your group made separate bookings, please provide all booking references at least 2 days before the travel date. We cannot guarantee seats in the same vehicle without this information.
- Please provide a WhatsApp-enabled phone number so our team can contact you easily on the day of the tour.
- If you have a flight after the tour, please inform us. Airport drop-off is not included, and travel times may vary due to traffic.
You’ll get confirmation within 24 hours . If you don’t receive any confirmation, please contact us at [email protected] or +66 62 289 5343
- You’ll get a full refund if you cancel at least 2 days prior to the travel date.
- Changes of travel date must be made at least 2 days prior to the travel date ·
- In the event of a force majeure or unforeseen event such as bad weather or cancellation by our business partner(s), we reserve the right to cancel the tour. In this case, you will be given the option to reschedule or request a full refund.
- Refunds will be made via cash or bank transfer. Any bank fee that occurred will be deducted from the refund amount.
- No refund for no-show and last-minute cancellation for all reasons to maintain our competitive price as your seats cannot be resold.
