Khao Sok Elephant Hills & Rainforest Camp

The Amazing Elephant Experience – Overnight Elephant Hills Camp
Arrive in Phuket, pick-up at SeaView Patong Hotel and private transfer to to Elephant Hills Camp in Khao Sok where our staff will welcome you. Buffet lunch will be served with a variety of delicious Thai dishes.
After lunch you can relax during a jungle river canoe trip down the Sok River. The canoes are very stable and safe; life jackets are provided as well as a local river guide to paddle the canoe. Drift along the jungle river passing limestone mountains and cliffs covered with exotic tropical vegetation. Sometimes hornbill birds can be seen flying high overhead or reptiles basking in the sun on the riverbanks. From the canoe you can experience some of the last areas of primary rainforest, a world that has changed little in thousands of years.
Get off the canoe and head over to the elephant sanctuary. Here you can see, touch and learn about the life of Thai elephants and about the Elephant Hills elephant conservation project. Your guide will also teach you about the mahout, the elephant caretaker. While participating in our amazing Elephant Experience you will get very close to and even get your hands on these magnificent animals. You will have the chance to interact with them and learn the secrets of their mahouts. You will prepare and feed them one of their daily meals, including their dietary supplements that help with their digestion and their overall well-being, then watch them bathe before you scrub and wash them clean. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to really experience the Asian elephant, the continent’s largest land animal!
After all this activity close to nature it is time for a hot shower in the unique bathroom of your luxury safari tent. Relax and enjoy the panoramic views of the surrounding jungle-covered mountains – this is 100% real nature! A wide selection of cocktails, wines and spirits is available at the “Jungle Explorer’s Club Bar”. Optional evening entertainment includes a movie presentation, a traditional Thai dance performance from local school children and a cooking demonstration, where you learn how to properly prepare Thai specialties. At 8:00 pm it is time for dinner in this unique location beside the rainforest, where the sounds and the atmosphere will make this a memorable meal.
Spend the night in your luxury safari tent with a comfortable bed, reading lights, and hot water. The tents’ doors and windows are covered with mosquito netting as well as canvas flaps, so insects and reptiles will not bother you. Temperatures at night drop a little, and the tents are well ventilated; blankets keep you warm in the chill of the night. This is real luxury so close to the heart of the rainforest!
Please kindly note that all mentioned activities depend on local conditions and may be subject to change.
Transfer Patong Bay, Phuket – Khao Sok is private transportation

Spectacular Cheow Lan Lake – Overnight Rainforest Camp
Good morning! Wake up to the sounds of nature and birds calling from the bushes next to the tent. By the time the sun comes up and the mist clears over the rainforest-covered mountains to the south of Elephant Hills, the territorial morning calls of gibbons echo down the valley. Tea and coffee making facilities are available in your tent for early risers; breakfast is at your leisure.
Today you will explore Cheow-Lan-Lake by local long-tail boat. Cruise across emerald waters passing the towering rainforest-covered Limestone Mountains to the “Guilin” of Southern Thailand. The Cheow-Lan-Lake is a little known wonder of southern Thailand and features a first-class habitat for wild elephants, the rare Asian ox, hornbills and hundreds of other tropical birds, various monkey species, amphibians, reptiles and even tigers and leopards. This combined with a myriad of other species hidden in the rainforest-covered hills makes it one of the most unique and important areas of rainforest in South East Asia. Take your time to marvel at the majestic mountains rising sheer out of the water and experience nature at its best! Lunch will be served on the floating luxury camp. Head to the Floating Elephant Hills Rainforest Camp, situated in the heart of the national park, where our staff will check you in to your luxury tent with private en-suite bathrooms, solar- and wind-powered electricity and hot and cold water showers. Find all the conveniences of a modern hotel room inside, combined with solid beds, tea and coffee making facilities and totally unspoiled nature right at your door step. Sit back and enjoy the surrounding views of Cheow-Lan-Lake while enjoying a fabulous buffet lunch of Thai dishes which are prepared directly on the property.
By now well-invigorated, you will come face to face with the jungle by exploring it on foot. It is not an army survival exercise, even though the trail is quite steep at times and can be slippery when wet – please talk to your guide if you are feeling unsure about the trek. But remember: There are no prizes for the fastest; snakes and spiders do not jump out at you. This is simply an excellent opportunity to explore the ecology of one of the world’s oldest rainforests, to see a great variety of exotic plants, tropical hardwood trees with huge roots, orchids, palms, ferns, bamboos, mosses… the variety is huge.
Birds such as the hornbill live high up above, gibbons can often be heard calling to their mates, a macaque or a leaf monkey may be swinging through the branches, beautiful butterflies buzz around – every day is different, but it is always truly wonderful to discover the great variety of life-forms which co-exist here. Take this advice: Walk slowly. Look, learn and listen. Then you too will start to discover some of the rainforest’s secrets.
Back at the camp, watch the sun set behind the towering limestone mountains from the deckchair in front of your tent after a refreshing dip in the water and the inevitable shower. Dinner will be served shortly, and then it is only you and the intriguing sounds of nature under a starlit sky… No fairy-tale will ever be that fabulous.

Flora and Fauna in the Fabulous Forest
Wake up to the sounds of Gibbons calling high up in the trees, while the clearing mist unveils the true beauty of the lake. Don’t think twice: As the jungle starts to stir, you could already be out there exploring prehistoric beauty in your canoe! Or do you wish to submerge into the glassy surface of the lake first? Whatever you choose, by tomorrow you will already regret the things you have not done…
Lunch will be served at the floating tented camp. Then it is time to return to the pier and transfer to Phuket. The real joy, though–this inner feeling of complete happiness–will not be transferred away. It stays with you, right there, right in your heart. What remains is the memory. Untouched. Untroubled. Unrivaled.
Arrive in Phuket and drop off at the airport for departure. Have a safe trip!

Notes:
Please kindly note that all mentioned activities depend on local conditions and may be subject to change.
Please arrange your departure flight from Phuket after 6:30pm. Transfer Khao Sok – Phuket Airport is joining transportation.