Ride an Elephant in Phuket
One of the best ways to tour the famous Pearl of the Andaman is by elephant, and a number of carefully structured tours offer the opportunity to do so in considerable style.
For travellers with a bit of extra time (and curiosity), notable half-day safari tours provide a very thorough and thoroughly enjoyable short course on island culture, geography and cuisine.
The journey begins with a four-wheeler excursion from your Phuket hotel into the Chalong Highlands where the Siam Safari Elephant Camp is located. Once there, you’ll meet your massive mammalian transports and learn a great deal about them and the state of modern elephant conservation efforts.
Next you’ll take a ride on an elephant's back into the surrounding highlands, and take in the sweeping vistas of Chalong Bay and Phi Phi Island beyond.
Along with your adventures aboard an elephant, this award-winning camp offers the opportunity to learn about the preparation of Thai jungle curry, the tapping of rubber trees, and the training of monkeys used for the picking of coconuts. You’ll have up-close and personal exposure to water buffaloes, and learn how coconuts are processed to make coconut milk and oil.
The tour concludes with a buffet lunch prepared with fresh ingredients and with a selection of Thai dishes that are designed to go easy on sensitive western pallets (meaning they’re relatively mild). An additional feature is an optional tour of the bay in a traditional wooden junk before returning to your hotel.
Shorter elephant tours (approximately an hour) depart into the Phuket jungle from major hotels daily from 9 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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This tour is excellent! It is both educational and fun for adults and children. Lots of photo opportunities. The facilities are well maintained and there are some shopping opportunities. Another well organised Thai event - fantastic!
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This trip is great and something you will always remember. They give you an insight into how they used Ox to plough the land, how the Coconut is important to the Island with various demonstrations of their uses. They show you various ways they make Curry and ask you to try some and also demonstrate how Rubber is collected and used from the large ammounts of Rubber trees in the area. The best bit is obviously the Elephant ride and not only is the ride good some of the views you are shown on the route are stunning. The day is great but don,t just expect an Elephant ride as there are other things that take place. Do not also think that the educational things are boring as you move from one thing to another at a fair old pace so Children won,t get bored as the guide is excellent and makes the stops interesting and involves all. You get to taste, smell, touch various things. I would reccomend this trip to all ages.
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This trip is great and something you will always remember. They give you an insight into how they used Ox to plough the land, how the Coconut is important to the Island with various demonstrations of their uses. They show you various ways they make Curry and ask you to try some and also demonstrate how Rubber is collected and used from the large ammounts of Rubber trees in the area. The best bit is obviously the Elephant ride and not only is the ride good some of the views you are shown on the route are stunning. The day is great but don,t just expect an Elephant ride as there are other things that take place. Do not also think that the educational things are boring as you move from one thing to another at a fair old pace so Children won,t get bored as the guide is excellent and makes the stops interesting and involves all. You get to taste, smell, touch various things. I would reccomend this trip to all ages.
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