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Avoid this place at all costs if you truly love animals and truly love elephants. We rode past on our motorbike and saw 4 elephants chained by their feet and all rocking back and forth, doing the same repetitive movements - a classic sign of any animal in distress and suffering mental health issues.
When you ride an elephant you are damaging its back bone and spine. The elephants we saw had seats on their back - this actually makes female elephants infertile, as their fallopian tubes are near to the spine where the seat sits.
If the villagers say they are treated well - that’s a lie - look at the video here with the guy holding a stick with a spike on - how do you think he controls the elephant? With kindness?
You should find a camp where you only walk with these beautiful creatures - instead of getting Instagram moments with tortured elephants.

Nice experience. You not only interact with elephant, but also can experience to ride raft in the river. Not to much shop available there so prepare your own food

Great local experience for Thais and foreigners alike. The camp is very natural, refreshing and relaxing. Elephants are playful and enjoy themselves in the river. The staff are very friendly and helpful.

Feeding elephants to eat bananas, interacting with elephants, and sitting on bamboo in the river, is a scene that most people have never seen in the city. The whole trip is very interesting~ very happy.