Khao Sok Elephant Afternoon: No Riding, Plus Mountain Cooking

Thirteen things happen with the elephants, and then you cook dinner in a kitchen standing alone in a valley full of mist. The elephants are never ridden and never chained. Nothing in the afternoon requires an elephant trained to carry a person; every activity is something the elephant would be doing anyway, with you close enough to take part. You prepare their food and roll vitamin balls by hand, feed them, walk with them, work mud into their skin, go into the river with them and watch them stand under a big overhead shower. Three things to take home: a Thai herbal inhaler you make yourself, a sheet of paper made from elephant dung, and seed balls you roll and plant in the forest. At four o'clock you drive up to a Thai kitchen hut standing on its own in a vaNever more than 15 guests.cook from the garden around it, cook it the old way over fire, and eat what you made as it gets dark. Two meals, hotel pickup both ways, no national park fee on this day. Never more than 15 guests.