🐘 Half-Day Visit to Smile Elephant Sanctuary in Chiang Mai
Spend your half day at a sustainable elephant sanctuary near Chiang Mai. Feed, walk, and bathe elephants in a peaceful natural setting. Upgrade your visit with an exciting whitewater rafting experience!
✨Why Visit Smile Elephant Sanctuary?
- Ethical and no-riding elephant care
- Operated by local elephant caregivers and Chiang Mai communities
- Peaceful natural setting by Mae Taeng River
- Includes making herbal balls and taking photos with elephants
Choose Your Package:
Package A: Elephant Sanctuary Only
Enjoy feeding, walking, bathing, and making herb balls with the elephants in a peaceful jungle environment.
Package B: Elephant Sanctuary + Whitewater Rafting
Combine your elephant visit with an adventurous 5 km rafting ride down the Mae Taeng River.
Package Details
🐘 A: Elephant Sanctuary Only
Itinerary:
- Pick-up from your hotel in Chiang Mai 08:00–08:30 AM
- Drive ~1.5 hours to Smile Elephant Sanctuary
- Change into traditional clothes
- Meet the elephants, feed them, and learn about their background
- Make herbal balls and take photos with elephants (30 min)
- Walk with elephants along the Mae Taeng River and forested areas (30 min)
- Bathe and brush the elephants (30 min)
- Enjoy seasonal Thai lunch or dinner (30 min)
- Change clothes and say goodbye
- Return to Chiang Mai arrive back ~14:30
🐘🌊 B: Elephant Sanctuary + Whitewater Rafting
Itinerary:
- Pick-up from your hotel in Chiang Mai 08:00–08:30 AM
- Scenic drive (~1.5 hours) through countryside to the sanctuary
- Change into traditional clothing
- Interact with the elephants: feed, play, and make herb balls
- Walk with elephants along the river (30 min)
- Bathe and brush the elephants (30 min)
- Enjoy Thai lunch or dinner with seasonal fruits (30 min)
- Whitewater Rafting Adventure:
Raft 5 km through the Mae Taeng River (approx. 45 min) with safety gear and guides - Change clothes and rest
- Drive back to Chiang Mai arrive ~ 03.30 pm.
Preparation
- Clothes to change/swimming suit that you don’t mind getting wet/dirty
- Walking shoes
- Towel
- Sunscreen
- Insect repellent
- Any medicine you require
Inclusion:
- Insurance.
- Lunch & Seasonal fruit.
- Drinking water,coffee,tea.
- Food to feed the elephants.
- Rafting (Package B only)
- Online Photo Gallery
- 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.
Exclusion:
- Any other expenses not mentioned in the package.
- Tips and gratuitie
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
Please note the following:
- 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.
Confirmation:
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
Cancellation Policy :
- 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.
