Elephant Sanctuary & Sticky Waterfall One Day Tour

We collect you from 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.

We pick you up where you stay at 08:30, free in the Old City, Nimman or Night Bazaar areas. From there it is about an hour's drive north, out of the city and into the hills, to the elephant camp in Mae Taeng. Your local guide is with the group for the whole day.

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.

Then it is feeding time. The elephants reach up with their trunks and you hand the food across. After that you walk with them, at the pace the keepers set. Stay close to the elephant guide and keepers and follow what they say; it keeps you and the elephants safe.

At about 12:00 we drive around 40 minutes to Bua Tong, the Sticky Waterfall. You have about two hours to follow the path down and climb back up along the rocks of the falls. Some parts are slippery, so take care and meet us back on time. You are back where you stay around 16:00.