Chiang Mai Secret Elephant

Pick-up is between 8.00–8.30am from your hotel or a designated meeting point. The 1h20m air-conditioned van ride brings you to PonSecret Elephant Home, where our guide and staff welcome you with instructions on feeding activities. Uniforms are provided free of charge. You'll prepare a herbal vitamin supplement and feed the elephants bananas, sugar cane, watermelon and other treats, then walk with them for 30–40 minutes. Families can join the elephants bathing in the Mae Taeng River. Lunch is served before the transfer back to your hotel, arriving around 2pm.

Hotel pick-up is between 8.00–8.30am, then a drive to the white water rafting put-in on the Mae Tang River. The 30–40 minute rafting run passes over 100 elephants along both riverbanks against Northern Thailand's mountain scenery. The raft arrives at Secret Elephant Sanctuary by Mr Pon, where your guide introduces the facilities: changing into camp uniforms, making herbal laxatives, feeding bananas and sugarcane, and walking the elephants out to graze in the forest. You'll then bathe the elephants before lunch at the Elephant Cafe. Afterwards you're taken to a waterfall to swim and rock climb, returning safely to your hotel by the end of the tour at 4.30pm.

A conservation programme that lets elephants live alongside people in a natural environment. Pick-up is between 8.00–8.30am from your hotel or meeting point, followed by a 1h20m drive to the sanctuary, where our guide introduces the location and the history of each elephant. The sanctuary has ample space near the mountains and river, an ideal home for the herd. You'll trek through the jungle to watch the elephants foraging along the mountain slopes, then gather natural food near their habitat to feed them and interact up close. Follow the elephants into their mud and river bath, then enjoy lunch while watching them play in the river. Afterwards we drive to Bua Tong Sticky Waterfall to shower under the falls for an hour, before returning to your hotel and finishing the programme around 4.30pm.