Mae Taeng · Chiang Mai
Preparing bananas for the elephants
A moment from the elephant day.
Behind the moment
Learning about the herd
Once everyone has changed, an elephant guide runs a short workshop about the elephants and how to be around them safely. Then you help prepare their food by hand at a long wooden table, peeling small bananas and laying out the fruit on plates for feeding time.
The rest of the day
We pick you up where you stay at 08:30 and drive about an hour north to an elephant camp in Mae Taeng. From about 10:00 you register, change into a keeper outfit and join a short workshop with an elephant guide. Then you prepare food, feed, walk with and bathe the elephants, always with the keepers beside you. After a buffet lunch at the camp we drive about 40 minutes to Bua Tong, the Sticky Waterfall, for around two hours. You are back where you stay around 16:00.