Elephant Jungle Sanctuary 🐘

One of the things I really wanted to experience during my time in Thailand was going to an elephant sanctuary to spend some time with the beautiful elephants 😍🐘

When looking for an ethical sanctuary that treats the elephants well I came across a sanctuary called "Elephant Jungle Sanctuary". I went to there sanctuary in Chiang Mai but I believe they also have another in Phuket.

I'll provide a link to the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary
website here to provide you all with additional information. They offer a number of different tour's ranging from a half day, full day and a volunteer program lasting multiple days all of which range in price accordingly. I chose to do the full day tour and I'd highly recommend it but I'm sure the volunteer programs would be incredible 😍

Anyway to start the day off we got picked up by a Jeep early in the morning that drove us outside of central Chiang Mai and into the forests surrounding the city which house the elephants. On the way we saw a number of elephants that belong to other tour companies and locals being used for riding which wasn't great to see but reinforced why we chosen to go with the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary tour company instead.

Upon arrival we met our guide for the day and we all sat down for a discussion on what the sanctuary does and all of the relevant information related to the elephants including how much it costs to look after an elephant ! It was explained to us what we would be doing on the tour and a rough outline of the full day tour would consist of this feeding the elephants, walking with the elephants, mud bath, fresh water bath and making the elephants the medicine that they need to stay fit and healthy. We also got a buffet lunch provided and if you know me that makes me a very happy guy 😂

After we had completed the whole day with the elephants nobody wanted to leave we all had an amazing time and I'd really recommend you book your elephant experience with a reputable company ! We also got to keep the jumper that we are wearing in the photos below which is a really nice touch from the company !

If you want to watch a video from a fellow traveler about how elephants are being treated and how you should not support the riding of elephants here's the link to a video by Christian Leblanc that I'd highly recommend watching ! Tell him I sent you ♥️

I also recorded two highlight videos from the elephant jungle sanctuary which you can watch here and here 😊

Here's a few of my favourite pictures from my time with the elephants if you have any questions feel free to post them below.

Here's some useful links 🐘
• https://www.elephantjunglesanctuary.com/
• https://www.elephantnaturepark.org

And here's the links to Christian Leblanc's social media's so you can all check him out and hopefully he'll be on Steemit soon.

Christian's YouTube

Christian's Instagram

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