Top Pick - Full or Half Day @Elephant in Wild Sanctuary ChiangMai

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Itinerary

1. Pick up from hotel in Chiang Mai city between 08.00 - 08.30am and drop off about 06.30pm. ***If you book Half Day options there are no Trekking or Rafting*** - Depart from hotel and drive thought rural area and forest hill - Learn about Elephants behaviours in natural surroundings. NO RIDING!! - Learn how to prepare foods for elephants - Observing our beautiful rescued elephants as they roam throughout our sanctuary - Observing the elephants in mud spa, which help their skin and protect from insects - Observing when they are bathe at river in a natural way, as they would in the wild - Enjoy lunch (Thai foods) - White Water Rafting through the rain forest about 50 minutes - Trekking for 2 hours (1 hour go, 1 hour back) through jungle & beautiful waterfall - Back to Chiang Mai City (about 06.30pm) What to bring; Towel, Bathing Suit, Walking Shoes, Change of Clothes We don’t use chains, hooks or any other cruelty tactics like that because our elephant family are allowed to roam free.

   6 h

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

Reviews

Ratings come from 243 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.

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• 5Professional Elephant & Adventure Tour in Chiang Mai

  This tour is very professional and was carried out well. The pick up was really on time, around 8am as conveyed. The drop off was also around 530pm - 6pm as stated. Our guide, Tha Tha (unsure if I mispelled), a young 24-year old male guide is very friendly and helpful throughout the tour, especially during the hike where he will point out suitable paths/rocks for us to walk on. He also helps takes photos and videos using our phone throughout the tour. The hike was better and more challenging than I expected. Your shoes will get wet due to stream crossings, so be prepared. The pace of the hike was quite fast as its about 1 hour uphill, 20 mins swim at the waterfall and 1 hour downhill. Its more fun to hike in a group with people looking out for one another. The rocks are slippery. I survived because I wore sports shoes. I dont know how one guy in my tour managed to hike well with slippers. So it depends on your ability. Our guide also explained really well during the Elephant tour. It went on for a good 10-15 minutes of explanation, followed by food preparation for the elephants (cutting of fruits). Afterwards, we fed the elphants and bathed them in the river. One feedback I would provide to them is to let the elphants chill and relax in the river if they want to, instead of asking them to get out of the river just because the tour is ending. Thats the whole point of a sanctuary afterall. Overall, I would highly recommend this tour. The 5 year old baby elephant, SongKran is really friendly, sociable and cute. The adult elephants are really majestic, gentle and cute too. The river rafting (approx 3km distance) at the end was fun too. A nice, relaxing way to end the tour.

  eleanercSeptember 2026via Tripadvisor

• 5Good experience

  Our guide Sak was excellent with good energy and a lot of interesting facts. We picked the half day so missed the the rafting and trekking but the rafting did look very fun. It would have been good to see the elephants in their actual sanctuary as well just to observe. The experience is not technically completely ethical as their is interaction with them via feeding and bathing but the do seem to care about the elephants and take good care of them.

  H7836FVarnoldbAugust 2026via Tripadvisor

• 5Great experience and beautiful animals

  Very fun experience. Elephants were really very well behaved and everyone had a lot of laughs. So good to see these magnificent animals well taken care of.

  Jeff_FJuly 2026via Viator

• 5ELEPHANT kaaaa

  Pick up was smooth and right on time, experience was amazing, clearly once in a lifetime, songkran the baby elephant is super cute and fun to play with.

  sarabG5662EEJuly 2026via Tripadvisor

• 5A wonderful experience

  I had an amazing experience. Hiking in the jungle, spending time with elephants, rafting—everything was fun. The guide was very communicative and enjoyed the experience with us. He could also speak a little Japanese, so I would recommend this tour to Japanese people as well!

  kenshiroh2026May 2026via Tripadvisor

• 510/10 recommend

  Loved our tour wide gave us very good information. The hike was breathtaking I love to be active so was great to see a waterfall. The elephant was just something I never thought I would experience

  Kevin_BMay 2026via Viator

Know before you go

How it compares in Chiang Mai

• Its from-price is 50% below the median of the 385 day trips we list in Chiang Mai.
• Its length is typical for the group.
• By number of reviews it ranks 10 of 385.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai is northern Thailand's cultural capital, a moated old city of temples, markets and crafts surrounded by forested mountains.

The old city, ringed by a square moat and the remains of brick walls, holds dozens of temples, among them the elegant Wat Phra Singh and the ruined great chedi of Wat Chedi Luang. Above town, Wat Phra That Doi Suthep crowns a mountain, reached by a staircase lined with serpents, with views across the valley.

Top-ranked sights in Chiang Mai: Doi Inthanon National Park, Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, Golden Triangle.

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