Elephants have always played an integral part in Thai culture and Thai history. All Thai kings had a stable of white elephants and the animals once decorated the national flag and currency. Undoubtedly, the elephant holds pride of place as the national symbol of the Kingdom of Thailand. Nowadays, the elephant is a domestic animal for tourism purposes, despite the decreasing amount elephant population.
Patara Elephant Farm Chiang Mai was founded in order to operate elephant farm activities including elephant breed selection, breeding program for baby elephants and to protect them from extinction. A lot of interesting activities are provided to give the visitor an opportunity to get more experience about the elephant?s way of life and we have a very impressive elephant training course with concept of being ?Elephant Owner for a Day?
Patara Elephant Farm Chiang Mai provides you with 5-8 hours individual training session in lush and picturesque landscape. All the elephants here have been well trained. In the beginning of the training program, mahouts, elephant handlers, will give you instructions for your safety. You will learn how to introduce yourself to your elephant, feed it, and use basic spoken commands when it becomes familiar with you.
You have to walk your elephant to the river, learn about your elephant skin care and bath your elephant in the river. The climax is you have to use your spoken commands to get on the elephants neck with 3 difference techniques.
After you manage to get on your elephant is a time for a bare-back riding lesson and onto a basic riding adventure within the farm, a short trip to visit vocal temple, and set of for a long up hill trip to visit a waterfall.
With all of these exceptional activities, we can guarantee that 1 day in Patara Elephant Farm in Chiang Mai will be one of your most memorable moments in Thailand.
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Contact
Telephone: 081-992-2551, 081-671-0958
Hotline: 081-671-0958
Address
404 Moo 4 T. Yuwaa A. Sanpatong Chiang Mai 50120 29 km. from Airport Intersection on Hangdong-Samueng Rd. South West of Chiang Mai. (5 km. further from Krisada Doi, Next to Belle Villa)