Elephant Village Samui

Highly recommended and seemingly very ethically ran We visited this place after careful consideration to make sure the elephants were treated properly. They definitely are looked after here, and it's a great price to spend some time with these amazing animals. I researched several places that had Elephant sanctuaries in Koh Samui and i think i got it right going here. I was very careful not to visit ANYWHERE that only used the animals to make a profit. Its hard to see how this place makes a huge profit as we paid for the longest time with the animals, it was around 45-50 minutes and cost 1500 baht which is about £37. They inform you that the adults need up to 300kg of food each per day! imagine the cost of that! You get to feed the 2 babies, and then you get to see the adults, this includes making a vitamin "meal" for them, they soon scoff that down : ) you can take a selfie with the adults, you can bath them, feed them lots of fruit - one of the babies has a favourite toy which is a tyre, it takes it everywhere with it and the only time it puts it down is when it sees you have a plate of fruit as a treat and it comes running up to you to get its treat. You dont get lucky enough to see this kind of thing in a lot of places so make the most of it if youre in Samui

Totally worth it going here! There were other places - some seemed legit and expensive (3000 baht), and others seemed less expensive but less legit (unethical behavior reported by previous visitors). But this one's juuust right! For just 500 baht you can feed the elephants and take pictures, or you can pay more if you want a workshop to prepare the food, shower the elephants, etc. The elephants weren't restrained or hit in any way, and they were easily called by name. I asked to see the baby elephant that I saw off in the distance, but they were a little hesitant because they said that elephants are territorial and too many people especially around the baby elephant might make Mama anxious. So I totally respected that, and kept my distance. The staff were all exceedingly friendly, and they took pictures for me with my phone too. Couldn't have asked for a better elephant sanctuary experience! Highly recommend 👍👍 (No reservation necessary, just show up and pick your package, and 4:10pm seemed to work great for a quick elephant snack + photo.)

Excellent places where they actually love animals, they treat the elephants well I would recommend this place it is very ethical. They also have 2 puppy’s there which were adorable and a mummy dog which made our experience even better! Speakers were excellent very funny and engaging. The lady that took us around was amazing I will attach an image, she was excellent very sweet and very engaging. One thing I love about her was that she loved what she was doing that’s most important.