Best places: Wildlife refuges in Thailand

👍👍 Just spent the morning feeding and bathing the most beautiful elephants. They are all rescued from the logging or entertainment industries and you can tell how much they are loved and respected. Seeing the elephants looked after so well made for an incredible day and memories my family and I will ne...

👍👍 What an incredible day!! My girlfriend and I visited Elephant Freedom Project yesterday and we're still buzzing from the experience. Firstly, the elephants! The interactions were exactly what we were hoping for and more, nothing forced, just allowing the elephants to be and guiding us through the...

👍👍 A elephant sanctuary like no others. Don’t expect to ride on elephant here, or doing circus to entertain you. Instead you are allowed to feed them, mud bath and washing them. A great experience spending time with elephant. The lunch was delicious too.

👍👍 What a great day of fun and learning. You can’t help but fall in love with the elephants. They are massive, but full of personality and friendly. The staff were knowledgeable, patient, and anticipated our needs (from bug spray to bottled water and towels, to hats while walking the jungle, they th...

Airy conservation & animal rescue center helping elephants, monkeys, jungle cats & other wildlife.

Sanctuary for rescued elephants with visitor experiences such as feeding & bathing the animals.

😠 Almost 99% of the road to the base camp is concrete. In comparison with other rural mountain roads in the province this one is easy and not so steep. Local villagers, children as well ride their small motorcycles - two or three persons on the same bike, usually without helmet. But for others it is...

Protected mountainous area of dense jungle, with hiking trails & endangered local species.

😠 It was amazing to be so close to these incredible animals but this is 100% not a sanctuary. The company is clearly profiteering off of these animals who are kept in tiny pens and forced to perform for tourists all day long. One of the elephants was rocking back and forth in distress the whole time...

👍👍 Incredible experience, easiest 5 star review I've ever given! It was vitally important to me that I visited a sanctuary where there was no mistreatment of elephants of any kind. Hug Elephant Sanctuary provided me with just that, all at such reasonable prices too! I did the full day tour which star...

👍👍 My friends and I had a private half day tour. Toto was an amazing tour guide, his English was very good and he taught us a lot about the elephants. We hung out with 2 elephants, made them rice balls, took them on a walk and bathed them. The elephants were the friendliest gentle giants! They love to...

🫤 Perfect if you're looking for an elephant show designed for tourists with emphasis on photo ops. Skip it if you're looking for elephants living freely in sanctuary. Offers the same activities that every other elephant tour advertises (feeding, walking, bathing, etc). Entire experience felt like a...

👍👍 A wonderful place where they really care about their elephants. Had a lovely experience just watching and learning about these beautiful animals. I highly recommend Hidden Forest Elephant Sanctuary and will definitely come again next year. Thank you for all the effort you have put into it and are st...

👍👍 A good place to visit and experience these huge majestic animals. Do skip the touristy rides and circus shows and support the conservation efforts by this sanctuary. All the elephants here are rescues and the team takes great care of them. We were there for an hour, fed the elephants and watched th...

Vast & protected tropical forest, home to rare endangered wildlife such as tigers & elephants.

😠 Please don't tell yourself the elephants look happy and you're doing them a favour by visiting. They seem exploited for us, the tourists. A real sanctuary doesnot operate this way.

Forested mountain reserve popular with hikers, known for resident elephants & spring orchids.

👍👍 I will not judge if this place is completely ethical or not. I give this place 5 stars because I had an amazing day, elephants looked happy, the price seemed cheaper than other places, and the location is beautiful. Obviously, elephants are trained to stand behind the fence line for feeding or one e...

👍👍 A truly elephant-friendly venue advocating for a hands-off experience where you go to observe the elephants living and enjoying lives in natural environment without human interference, the contrary to entertainment-based elephant venues where these wild creatures are forced to performed long hours f...

👍👍 This was an amazing experience. We booked a full day tour which including prepping and feeding the elephants, walking and swimming with them and watching them in their natural habitat. Tour ends with a beautiful waterfall to cool off. The tour guides were excellent and fun. They kept the day moving...