Floating Rainforest or Elephant Camp at Elephants Hills – the decision is yours.

 

 

…. and it is not an easy one.

 

Both camps are situated in the Khao Sok National Park in Southern Thailand, approximately two hours apart from each other, close to popular beach destinations like Phuket, Khao Lak and Krabi.

 

Elephant Hills offers different day tours exploring the fascinating rainforest in Khao Sok National Park and offering you the opportunity to interact with Asia’s largest land animal. You can watch the elephants enjoy an extensive bath in the big mud pool, and then use coconut fibers to scrub the elephants clean, before preparing and feeding them one of their daily meals. After which, the elephants are released back into the huge free-roaming pen, where guests can watch them in their natural environment.

 

The elephants’ welfare is the top priority for Elephant Hills and as well as their own elephants, they are also dedicated to the conservation of the rest of Thailand’s endangered Asian elephant population.

 

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I had enough of elephants after a 30 minute ride in the “fascinating jungle” at one of those tourist traps.  

3 hours ago, chilli42 said:

I had enough of elephants after a 30 minute ride in the “fascinating jungle” at one of those tourist traps.  

For the love of god, these animal are not meant to be ridden.   Like far too many others, you have no appreciation of the horrific abuse animals endure to get to to the stage where they can be ridden.   If it helps, the process is called "elephant crushing", and involves a six inch spike called a "bull hook" being used to pierce their hide.   Seeing their own blood and fear compliance is part of the "crushing."   

 

All of this happened to that magnificent creature so you could have your 30 minutes of boredom.  The fear compliance continues through their entire lives.

 

I sincerely hope you take the time to read up on this before you consider any future activities involving trained elephants.