Phuket - Elephants

[Surfer]

Never saw that ^ Elephants seemed well cared for. Op just make sure you do a bit of research beforehand.

 

[VincentHanna]

Don't do it, I would be wary of any elephant sanctuary and doubly so if it has babies you can feed. That almost certainly means they are not rescuing Elephants but they have a captive breeding program and they are then separating them from there mothers so you can feed them. Very few if any countries in the world these days have sufficient numbers of working domesticated elephants to need any form of rescue/sanctuary program so almost all these places are tourist traps exploiting these majestic creatures to put money in peoples pockets and animal welfare will not be a priority.

They have families there

https://www.elephantnaturepark.org/

 

[a1ex2001]

They have families there

https://www.elephantnaturepark.org/

Which means they are not purely a rescue centre and are a tourist attraction, rescue centres should not be captive breeding elephants and certainly should not be captive breeding elephants to be hand reared by tourists. I'm not going to spend hours researching each individual establishment I am simply advising extreme caution/avoidance of all Elephant tourism that isn't restricted to watching these beautiful animals in there natural habitat.