Thai Elephant Home

Thai Elephant Home Genuine Mahout Program gives you the opportunity to live and work as a full time mahout at the Thai Elephants Home, volunteers are given full responsibility for one elephant during their time with us.

This program for people who really love elephants.Thai Elephant Home believes that our elephant are our most important responsibility, and our first priority is always the welfare and happiness of the Elephants. This means that all our volunteers will have the opportunity to closely interact with the elephants during their placement. Volunteers can play with the elephants and see their natural behavior. All volunteers will be accompanied or assisted by professional mahouts at all times.

The volunteer are expected to be able to look after themselves, we will help with cooking and you can become a member of the Thai Elephant Home’s family.  

Sometimes we will have a pregnant and baby elephants at the camp, please check the website for more details.

Schedule
Before breakfast
-clean the elephant’s area and feed the elephants
Breakfast at 7.30-8.30 am
After breakfast
-learn to control and to feed the elephants includes cutting the food in the jungle.
-learn to be good mahout, through commands, training and other techniques to look after the elephant.

12-13 have lunch

After lunch
-relax
-feed the elephants
-take them to wash in the river or black mud
-clean the elephant’s area (Somedays we will plant food for the elephant in the jungle)

17.00-18.00 have dinner
After dinner
Feed the elephants
Relax
Feed elephants before going to bed

(The schedule can change dending on circumstances)

For pricing of this special program please contact Joe the Thai Elephant Home manager directly.
http://www.thaielephanthome.com/contact-us