Best places: Wildlife refuges in Ban Yang Thong, Thailand

👍👍 Incredible experience, easiest 5 star review I've ever given! It was vitally important to me that I visited a sanctuary where there was no mistreatment of elephants of any kind. Hug Elephant Sanctuary provided me with just that, all at such reasonable prices too! I did the full day tour which star...

👍👍 My friends and I had a private half day tour. Toto was an amazing tour guide, his English was very good and he taught us a lot about the elephants. We hung out with 2 elephants, made them rice balls, took them on a walk and bathed them. The elephants were the friendliest gentle giants! They love to...

🫤 Perfect if you're looking for an elephant show designed for tourists with emphasis on photo ops. Skip it if you're looking for elephants living freely in sanctuary. Offers the same activities that every other elephant tour advertises (feeding, walking, bathing, etc). Entire experience felt like a...

👍👍 I will not judge if this place is completely ethical or not. I give this place 5 stars because I had an amazing day, elephants looked happy, the price seemed cheaper than other places, and the location is beautiful. Obviously, elephants are trained to stand behind the fence line for feeding or one e...

👍👍 This was an amazing experience. We booked a full day tour which including prepping and feeding the elephants, walking and swimming with them and watching them in their natural habitat. Tour ends with a beautiful waterfall to cool off. The tour guides were excellent and fun. They kept the day moving...

Elephant sanctuary offering overnight visits, with activities such as bathing & jungle walks.

😠 PLEASE READ!! We were told this place was an elephant sanctuary but it definitely was not. The elephants are forced to move around for our convenience and are tied up. They are not allowed to roam freely and are not treated with dignity. While we were making the healthy snack for the elephants our f...