What an incredible experience! It was tricky finding an elephant sanctuary with the correct set of morals and creating a humane experience, however with BEES, we feel we made the best decision we could! Their hands off policy gives an amazing opportunity to be within the environment of the elephants, without causing any disturbance. The owners Burm and Emily were incredibley welcoming and made the whole experience entertaining; always wanting to make sure we were enjoying ourselves and attending to our needs.
I highly recommend BEES elephant sanctuary if you’re looking for an organic experience in the close presence of their incredible elephants! We’ll definitely be back! ?❤️
We did not really know what to expect with this elephant sanctuary as we booked it online from backpackers before travelling and although there are many elephants Sanctuary's advertised within Chiangmai this is nowhere to be found so was a little apprehensive, we were picked up at 8:30 in the morning and informed it was a four hour drive to the elephant sanctuary through the National Park what a drive, there was five of us on the tour and we visited the waterfalls for lunch, Rice fields where the Karen Tribe live and saw the most amazing scenery within the mountains absolutely breathtaking.
On arriving at the elephant statuary we were greeted by the many rescue dogs and cats. we meet Emily for a meet and greet explained their ethos of the elephants. All the elephants were retired from working. Although the animals are not wild they are retired back to as near as nature as possible so no hands on, no feeding observe them only allowing them just to be elephants again.
Day two We were took out in the national park trekking and looking for the elephants we were able to observe them in their own natural environment crossing rivers, eating palm trees and it was the most amazing experience I have ever had on reflection I am so glad we did not bath or feed them just seeing them being elephants in the wild helped you see how beautiful these creatures are, we also learned about the plants that we could eat and plants that were used for medicine. After lunch we had to cross a river which was interesting experience then tubing down the river.
Would recommend as an amazing experience
Zoe & Ethan (Guest) –
What an incredible experience! It was tricky finding an elephant sanctuary with the correct set of morals and creating a humane experience, however with BEES, we feel we made the best decision we could! Their hands off policy gives an amazing opportunity to be within the environment of the elephants, without causing any disturbance. The owners Burm and Emily were incredibley welcoming and made the whole experience entertaining; always wanting to make sure we were enjoying ourselves and attending to our needs. I highly recommend BEES elephant sanctuary if you’re looking for an organic experience in the close presence of their incredible elephants! We’ll definitely be back! ?❤️
Kathy Bannister (Guest) –
We did not really know what to expect with this elephant sanctuary as we booked it online from backpackers before travelling and although there are many elephants Sanctuary's advertised within Chiangmai this is nowhere to be found so was a little apprehensive, we were picked up at 8:30 in the morning and informed it was a four hour drive to the elephant sanctuary through the National Park what a drive, there was five of us on the tour and we visited the waterfalls for lunch, Rice fields where the Karen Tribe live and saw the most amazing scenery within the mountains absolutely breathtaking. On arriving at the elephant statuary we were greeted by the many rescue dogs and cats. we meet Emily for a meet and greet explained their ethos of the elephants. All the elephants were retired from working. Although the animals are not wild they are retired back to as near as nature as possible so no hands on, no feeding observe them only allowing them just to be elephants again. Day two We were took out in the national park trekking and looking for the elephants we were able to observe them in their own natural environment crossing rivers, eating palm trees and it was the most amazing experience I have ever had on reflection I am so glad we did not bath or feed them just seeing them being elephants in the wild helped you see how beautiful these creatures are, we also learned about the plants that we could eat and plants that were used for medicine. After lunch we had to cross a river which was interesting experience then tubing down the river. Would recommend as an amazing experience