Please kindly note that all mentioned activities depend on the weather and local conditions and may be subject to change!
1st Days Activities: The Amazing Bush Camp Elephant Experience.
Transfer from the airport or hotels in Chiang Mai to The Bush Camp. (Transfer times are approximately 2 hrs.)
Arrive in the late morning before enjoying a delicious Thai lunch. After lunch check in and prepare for the day’s activities.
Today’s activities are set around The Bush Camp’s Elephant and Mahout Experience:
Visit our “Free-roaming chain free” elephant park. Feed and interact with Asia’s largest land animal. A truly once in a lifetime opportunity to experience Thailand majestic giants in their natural home.
Spend time in the Elephant Café as elephants roam peacefully in front of you.
Explore the life of the mahouts by seeing how they live together with nature and their elephants. Experience the traditions of the mahout by watching their families pound rice, weave their own hand made clothes and go about their daily life. Sample some of their cooking and help them make paper from elephant dung!
Enjoy a sundowner on one of the many mountain-top viewpoints which overlook the majestic Ping River, the lifeblood of northern Thailand. Experience barbequed delicacies and a drink or two while watching the northern-Thai sun set behind the mountains.
After watching the sun set and having time to freshen up you will return to enjoy a buffet dinner of freshly prepared Thai and western dishes whilst overlooking beautiful mountain vistas.
Elephant Hills Luxury Tented Bush Camp
Elephant Hills are Thailand’s first Luxury Tented Jungle Camps including award-winning nature adventure tours. Camps blend the safari camp idea of African national parks with Thailand's spectacular tropical evergreen environment.
2nd Days Activities: The morning rituals of our mahouts and Elephants.
Enjoy a fresh buffet breakfast at your leisure.
Arrive at “Free Roaming Forest” and sample “Kafee Boran” and “kanom krok” a traditional coffee and breakfast snack enjoyed by our mahouts and observe how our Elephants are cared for. Watch the elephants enjoy their morning wash and learn more about how we work with elephants here at The Bush Camp. Understand more about good animal husbandry techniques and how we administer veterinary care for the benefit of our pachyderms.
After a full morning of activities return to your tent to check out before enjoying one final lunch overlooking the mountains and Ping River before returning to hotels / Airport in Chiang Mai.
Elephant Hills Luxury Tented Bush Camp
Elephant Hills are Thailand’s first Luxury Tented Jungle Camps including award-winning nature adventure tours. Camps blend the safari camp idea of African national parks with Thailand's spectacular tropical evergreen environment.
All Elephant Hills tour packages are fully inclusive of accommodation, full board, activities as per chosen itinerary, a fully trained, TAT-licensed English speaking Thai tour guide as well as joint transfers to and from Elephant Hills as per transfer options.
