Who We Are

Thai Elephant Home was created in 2005 with the purpose of creating a safe, and caring environment for these majestic animals. In an effort to help shift things away from chair/basket-based riding, our elephants are ridden bareback with only one guest per elephant per day. Each elephant has its own individual caretaker (referred to as their "Mahout") who is dedicated to the health and wellbeing of their elephant. Eco-Tourism & Conservation: Thai Elephant Home realizes the number of Asian elephants continues to decline as the pressures on the elephants’ natural habitat continues to increase: human expansion and population growth has resulted in deforestation and fragmentation, thus directly affecting the elephants' ability to forage naturally and live without human-involvement. Knowing the elephants’ natural jungle habitat is fragile and continues to decrease, Thai Elephant Home maintains trekking trails into the jungle which allow guests to enjoy nature without leaving a heavy footprint. Thai Elephant Home also has an active land purchasing program aimed at maintaining and expanding the elephants’ natural habitat.