Samui Elephant Sanctuary
Bophut and Chaweng Noi, Thailand
This sanctuary offers time with elephants through food preparation, feeding and observation of their everyday behaviour. Its Bophut and Chaweng Noi sites are two options for the same experience, so choose the programme and transfer that suit your stay. Visitors do not bathe the animals or ride them. Allow space for the guides to explain individual elephants and their histories: the strongest reason to come is a considered encounter, rather than a rapid series of photographs.