Must visit if you like elephant. The ticket price per head is 40 INR. There are many elephants of different age. Elephant kids are funny. There is a small children's park and few play items are there. Botting facility is there. Very calm and not so crowded.

Beautiful place in kattakada taluk,Trivandrum. Boating area with Greenish water is apicturesque location. Best place for an elephant lover. Many elephants of different age groups are there. activities like bowl boating available.

Nice place to visit. Usually not crowded. There is entry fee and less parking area. Outside there is a small shop where you can buy water and cool drinks. Near the entry pass counter you can find honey and some other forest products. There is boating service (Paddle or row boat). Bathroom facilities are provided here. Many buildings are constructing here, don't know the purpose. Anyway it's a good place to spend time.

If you are an elephant lover, you will definitely love this place. Kids will enjoy the atmosphere here, there is boating facilities. Also lots of elephant in different age groups. This facility is still in a developing stage, lots of other facilities can be expected in near future.

Kottur Eco Tourism is a beautiful elephant sanctuary. There you can see many types of elephants and baby elephants. Kottur Eco Tourism is a great place to spend some time with family and friends.You can also get a boat ride there.

If you are an elephant lover, you will definitely love this place. Kids will enjoy the atmosphere here, there is boating facilities. Also lots of elephant in different age groups. This facility is still in a developing stage, lots of other facilities can be expected in near future. I went there on a weekend. Not many people know this area. Park the car on the left side of the ticket counter and you will find it easy after completing your sight seeing here. Elephants are too cute... There was cute elephant which was full time on dance mode( Her name is podichi). Every elephant has an emotional story behind being in this rehabilitation centre. You could get to know a lot about them if you speak to the care takers. There is a small boating area and you can go for it based on availability. Mostly pedal boats, a few bamboo rafts and a few bowl boats. Restrooms are clean

Elephant rehabilitation centre in kottoor Elephant bath takes by around 9:30am. Now a days brings them one by one. Very nice place but lot areas still under development phase with KIFBEE Project. Nice to visit especially if you and your family is elephant fans. Good to know govt is protecting elephant and supporting environmental. We must encourage these activities

'Majestic elephant species'🐘🐘 is the main attraction of this place. We can watch the routine activities such as bathing ,feeding, parade etc of elephants if we reach here by morning. Touching the animals are prohibited. U can see baby elephants as well. Greeny canopy of trees🌳🌳, a small park with benches are also present. There is a river and can have boating experience (kuttavanchi)🛶 . Canteen is nearby. I visited this place as a part of my internship . We have to wait for ksrtc bus for quite a long time and we can reach the place by off-road only. I guess visiting here with family will be a good experience.

Felt very young elephants are being tortured by tying both their legs. Maybe it's required. But it's sad to see They are building a better enclosure to let them free and will be completed in a year. Boating is available, and was nice. Had Kappa and Kanthari chutney in their outdoor canteen setup and it was superb. You need to walk almost 2 kilometers. If you have someone unable to walk, you can ask the staff to allow your vehicle to go inside till the boating. But you will need to bring the car back and park in an outside parking spot. The staff is super friendly. Got to know from an old lady staff that the Govt is paying only for the caretaker of elephants. Salaries of other staff are from the ticket sales. So please visit the place to support them. The road toward the place is good except the last two kilometers.

Had a lovely day trip to the elephant rehabilitation centre in Kottur! The place is beautiful, nestled in the heart of Kattakada Taluk, Trivandrum. Although it could use a bit more development, it's still a great spot to spend a day. We arrived just before 11am, which I'd recommend for the best experience. We got to see 4 majestic elephants during our visit. The entry fee was affordable at INR 40. The road to the area needs improvement, but there's ample parking available. The facilities were convenient - they have a canteen, washrooms, and seating areas. Don't miss the eco shop where you can purchase local products like pepper, cardamom, clove, and more. It's fantastic to support the tribes in the surrounding region. They even offer boating, adding an extra layer of enjoyment to the visit. All in all, a worthwhile trip for nature lovers and those looking to explore a unique part of Trivandrum. Can't wait to see how this place develops in the future! 🌿🐘 #ElephantRehabCentre #KotturAdventures

The kottur elephant rehabilitation center  is located near Kappukadu in Thiruvananthapuram district. It is a safe haven for the Asiatic elephant.

How this place is called a sanctuary for elephant? elephant separated, in chain and not really a sign of how this is a center for animal rehabilitation. Not free to even move, this looks like the usual man made for exploiting animals. I was so sad. such a little walk and all those animals in chains. Never come back and I wish this place close. Do not go there. You can see in the pics animal attached to chain, they go out only to get washed. I wish these people could experience this life as well and say how nice it is.

A great place for people to see Elephants of various age categories. You can see them as they are bathed and taken care of by the mahouts. Watching the young elephants in their playful mood was especially delightful. They also have a boating service. On the whole kids will love the place. The only issue is there is no food available as such except for some vendors selling snacks and cool drinks. Carry some food and also an umbrella/hats.

A must visit place for all nature lovers. This place has very cute n funny baby elephants as well as giant ones. The place also has a very good view of the lake which is a part of Neyyar dam lake. They offer boating -pedal boat and kuttavanchi. Entry fee for the facility : adult 40₹, kid 25₹.

There is a small entry fee Adult 40, child 25. Only a few elephants at the moment and all of them are chained and confined to different locations in the area. Elephant bath which happens around 4pm, they brought only one! We took a pedal boat, which is also a limited allowed area. I suggest going for the kotta vanji (round basket boat). Skip this if you have limited time.

This locale was pitched to us as a sanctuary for elephants. Every elephant we saw was chained to a tree or a pole with very little space to move. Sometimes, they had two legs chained. Baby elephants were kept separately from their mamas. Quite a few elephants rocked side-to-side without stopping, in the way traumatized animals do. Another young elephant repeatedly tried to throw the cane grass given to it at tourists taking pictures, clearly a sign of an animal in distress. I recognize that many of these elephants had negative interactions with farmers or other human populations, and this may be the alternative to death for them. I also recognize that local government resources may be scarce for upkeep (and elephants are expensive to feed and house). But I hope that the location works to improve the facilities. It would be so much more interesting - and potentially draw a lot of foreign tourism and money to the local economy - if this could have been a safari park, where the elephants were free to roam and the tourists remained in safe enclosures watching them.

Kottur ecotourism is the place for elephant rehabilitation. Got the opportunity to visit too many elephants of various ages. Parking is free and a new parking area is building in front of office . The ticket for each individual is 40 Rs. The small elephants are cared well and spaced well. But unfortunately some elephants are kept in such a way that they can't even move. We can understand that there should be a reason behind this..but watching an animal tied in both direction without any movement was tough. There was so enthusiastic elephant named 'podichi'.We got oppurtunity to watch their bath also. There was boating experience and canteen too. There was also option for stay for family's and bachelor's. Overall it's a good spot who loves elephants and to spent a good family time.

Kottur Elephant Sanctuary and Rehabilitation Centre located near Kappukadu in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala is an elephant sanctuary and rehabilitation centre. If you are the kind of person who loves elephants and wants to see them ..come to Kottur....where there is an elephant rehabilitation centre.... everybody must visit this place ...we can see elephants bathing.. playing... eating..etc ...there is also ..kuttavanchi...

Very calm and beautiful place. Very well maintained. Very close to nature. Many adventures are waiting for us there. People haven't much explored here. But it is very worth experiencing

One of the best places to spend your day with friends. The trekking experience in the forest is nice.

Calm , peaceful, fantastic place where explore ,understand ,enjoy our beautiful nature as well as reinforce ,relax our mind though our soul will be purified😎Lol

It is still not fully developed as on Aug 2023. We went with expectation to see rehabilitated elephants but the elephants were chained pretty badly - felt bad about it. They are building houses for probably staying back there but those are not operational yet. The elephant baths did not happen and we returned after seeing a couple of elephants chained to pillars.

Nice place to visit. The road is not so good around 500m. Kind of off-road. If you can reach by 9AM u can watch elephant bath.

Must visit if you like elephants. And you can also enjoy bamboo rafting and bowl boating.

The elephant rehabilitation centre at Kottur is almost in the finishing stage yet tourists are allowed, the infrastructure development is in progress (almost 70% completed). We've visited this place in the month of April 2023, we've traveled from Trivandrum via. Nemom, Neyar dam, Nedumangad-Aruvikkara road. We've started around 8 in the morning and it took around 2.5 hrs to reach the destination. It is ideal to be at this spot around 9 am, so that one can see the elephants taken for bathing around that time while it returns around 10:30. Then you can see elephants having their breakfast - a huge cannon balls. There are around 8 elephants at this site, the youngest is Aamina 2.5 yo and the oldest Soman 82 yo, there are other elephants viz. Raju, Rajkumar, Minna, Harikrishnan, Rahul, was another elephant named 'Podicchi' 7.5 yo that keeps dancing and squirts a trunk full of cool water over their bodies, probably to chill itself. We couldn't see the oldest elephant and we couldn't near yet another elephant that was in musth condition. The essentials such as canteen, washroom, seating places are available. The canteen is clean and hygienic, the food tastes yummy at a reasonable price. They have very kind and courteous staff, they behave really well elsewhere you can't see such hospitality. The washrooms are well maintained and clean. The staff at this tourism spot have very good knowledge about the surroundings /history. There's an eco shop where one can buy pepper, cardamom, clove, red sandal powder/wood/beads, wild turmeric powder, henna powder, honey, amla powder etc most of them are produced by the tribes in the surrounding region. There's boating as well but, the waiting time is more. For a day trip along with a family this is the best place to visit.

Had a not so pleasant experience with only 5 elephants (1 was a cutie - baby 🐘). There was once a nice cafeteria with a view to the lake - now that’s demolished and lake has very less water due to summer. Hope measures will be taken to bring charm back and attract more tourists.

We had visited the elephant rehabilitation centre on Monday. My bad it was a holiday! Only able to see few baby elephants on a holiday.. Maintenance was very good 👍

Well if you are a hardcore elephant lover then you can visit this place.But there is too much construction going on there and it's too dusty. Maybe after all this construction work, I think it will become a good tourist spot.

Lovely place for holiday - kids will enjoy here. Around 10 Elephants are here . Lonely and interior place for breeding elephants and also nice Mountain view. Lake view and boating is really recommended in this place. Place is not crowded, staffs are friendly and good. This is located in kappukadu, if you traveling to this place, make sure to check the route with locals. Google might show different route that might be little rough.

Lovely place to spend a day with family. Currently under renovation but still offers some great experience with elephants. We can see them roaming around bathing and taking food. Safari is not available but boatinf in the dam is a nice experience. As per the people there renovation will complete within 3 months it will offer much more entertainments. The road to the place is also under construction. (As on 20.11.2023)Monday is holiday, but still can see some elephants. It is better to visit there on rest of the days in the week. Ticket charge for adult is 40Rs/-

With the recent renovations and on going renovations the place has become much more beautiful. You can see the beautiful sight of elephant bathing and playing amongst themselves. The place has built in canteen and a small children's park too. The baby elephants will be a good attraction for your little ones. Boating services are also available here. So it is a perfect treat for all. Also the place is very soothing and relaxing

Went here on sept 2022.good to watch elephants from a distance can see them taking bath, walk and eat. But no safari or no permission to even touch or stand nearby any. Baby elephant was not seen anywhere. Good choice for a family outing, view is amazing. The best thing here is Kuttavanchi experience it was great. Its a must try👍

When I was here last time before 6 years ago, it was much more nature friendly with more trees around and lots of elephants( not chained to trees). Now a lot of area has been cleared out and a lot of construction is going around with more cement buildings. There are very few elephants now and mostly chained. Boating area is under developed. It is looking more like a zoo under construction rather than an Eco friendly place. Tarred roads are pretty much gone when I visited in August. In my view, it is better to take a boat tour from Neyyar wildlife sanctuary which covers a boat ride, Deer park and crocodile park and also shows you couple of elephants as well