About Us

BUKIT ELEPHANT PARK
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We have recently opened in March 2022 under the name “Bukit Elephant Park”. Our guides and Mahouts are professional and full of knowledge about elephants because they have been working in this field for more than 20 years. Below you will find the story of the history of the elephant park and how we became the new owners.

We are a group of people from Bangkok. We met each other for the first time when the former owners asked for our help. Previously the elephant sanctuary was known under a different name. The former owners were in a difficult situation to maintain their sanctuary because of various reasons. The impact of Covid-19 situation was one of the reasons why the elephant park was falling down. This situation has put the survival of the elephants at risk. Bukit elephant sanctuary is home to 6 elephants, and live here with their beloved Mahouts. Also, guides and other employees at this sanctuary were losing their jobs at that time. All of them, including the elephants, have been living here for many years. This has become their home. All of the mahouts and guides love the elephants. They do their job with love. Unfortunately, no other sanctuaries were able to help these amazing animals. The cost to keep them was too much. Elephants eat a lot of food every day. Thus, hoping all six elephants would be rescued by others would be impossible. At that time, we were contacted by one of the former members to come here.

After we learned everything we decided to jump in and help. We shared the same goals. We wanted to help protect the elephants and the employees. To conclude, we are the new owner of the old sanctuary. We want to make this sanctuary a home to elephants. We want them to live happily and peacefully at our park. Also we wanted to preserve the careers of the guides and Mahouts. They are happy to be here with elephants. Even though we are new owners, we saw the professionalism and care that the Mahouts and guides provide and want to help carry this tradition. They have been working here for more than 20 years. We are extremely glad to meet all of them and have an amazing opportunity to save the elephant’s lives. Opportunities like these do not come easy, but we are lucky and dedicated to help rescue and save this sanctuary.

We have only been open for a few months and are working hard to make our name known to others. Therefore, we would like you to visit our elephants, mahouts, and guides for showing your support to us. Your visit will be a big help for us to continue this project of helping elephants living their best lives here.

Why we do not offer elephant riding ? and bathing?

Both activities are not great for elephants and also to the customer’s safety. Elephant bathing is dangerous to both customers and elephants. Elephants are like humans. They sometimes want to be alone. They want to bathe alone. They want to roam alone by themselves or with their favourite herd. The reason that elephants love to bathe themselves alone is that they want to enjoy the mud in the pond and to dive into the pond. If the customers are also in the same pond with them, they might not be happy to share their happy and private time with other humans. Being in the pond with humans can cause them stress. When the elephants are under stress, they could behave differently which means that your safety is in danger in the pond. Please remember that elephants are giant creatures. They have more power than us. It is still dangerous to humans if we do not know how to handle them. When elephants are stressed and start to behave in different ways like running, our mahouts have to do something to stop them from hurting the customers. This could go back to controlling them by using hooks in order to command the elephants to stay still. We do not want this punishment to happen to the elephants. The same goes by, we do not want any harm to happen to our dear customers in any way. Since bathing with elephants in the pond can be dangerous to our customers. We have decided not to offer the program with elephant bathing. We want our customers to be happy and to be safe and go back to the hotels with a happy smile.