Elephant Family Phuket invites you to join them with feeding, interacting and learning about these gentle giants.
We build this elephant park in November 2018, with the mission, to bring our culture, the culture from the Karen people, and how we live together with elephants, closer to the tourism here on Phuket Island.
15 years ago we started this project, with the “Kerchor Eco Elephant Park” in Mae Wang, Chiang Mai.
We are proud to present the elephant lives, and how Karen people’s lives in our Elephant Family Park, in Phuket. We want to raise the lives of elephants and their owners families (Karen families) to be better.
Actually we are having 5 elephants, Tubtim and her 3 elephant babies 3. Namchok, Yokfah and Hansa. Fah Mai is our latest orphan elephant.
Learning, feeding, walking, playing in the mud and taking a bath with these gentle giants is an incredible and unforgettable experience.
Elephant Family Phuket is a caring wildlife sanctuary for elephants that are free to wander, eat & swim in their natural habitat.
Karen hill tribe has a long relationship with elephants. This relationship has passed on from generation to generation as there is a elephant blessing ritual every year. In the past, elephants are trained for transportation, logging, irrigation, building houses. After the ban of logging in Thailand, elephants and their mahouts turned to tourism. Elephants were to give rides in the past, however, because of elephant conservation and campaign against riding elephants, that has stopped. We would like to invite you to come and spend time with karen mahout to learn how they raise their elephants as a part of their family.
Pick-up times:
Morning programs: 08:00-08:30 a.m.
Afternoon programs: 01:00-01:30 p.m.
