Elephant sanctuary 🐘❤️🙌🏼💕

Today we went to an elephant sanctuary. It was one of the coolest things I’ve ever done! This sanctuary rescues elephants that have been abused and lets tourist come play and bathe them.

A bus picks you up from the city and takes you about a hour and a half into the jungle of Thailand. Once we got there we changed into our bathing suits and super cool Thai shirts. We hiked about 20 minutes up a mountain where the elephants were waiting for us. There were 6 in total including one baby and one pregnant elephant. The elephants were so friendly and playful while we fed them bananas. Then we went over to a waterfall to cool down because it’s constantly hot all the time here.

Then it was time to bathe them. We went into this river with buckets and brushes and washed them off. I think the elephants liked it almost as much as we did. Then we took them over to rub them with mud to exfoliate them, but then we ended up all getting in a mud fight. It was super fun! This sanctuary doesn’t have you ride the elephants because elephants were not built to be ridden so it causss them lots of pain when people try to ride them. We had such a great time and would definitely recommend this to anyone who comes to Thailand!

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