This morning, you’ll be picked up from your hotel or the airport for the scenic drive to Elephant Hills, giving you a glimpse of life in rural Thailand.

Your experience starts with a sumptuous buffet lunch, setting the bar for the delicious food you will enjoy throughout your stay.

Your first activity is a guided canoe trip on the picturesque Sok River, soaking in the majestic mountain scenery whilst looking out for hornbills and other birdlife, as well as reptiles sunning themselves by the water’s edge.

After tying up the canoes, it is time to meet the Elephant Hill’s star residents! As well as watch them bath in their large mud-pool, you’ll get the chance to prepare a fruit-based meal to feed to an elephant yourself and take photos with these most gracious land mammals. You will also witness the unique bond the mahouts who work on site share with the elephants.

This evening you can head to the jungle bar, enjoy a cooking demonstration or local dance performance, or simply relax in your tropical surroundings.

Elephant Hills Camp

Lunch and dinner

Awake to watch the mist rise from the rainforest canopy, then enjoy breakfast at your leisure.

Today, you head out of Khao Sok National Park to explore the mangrove forests on Thailand’s West Coast. You’ll first board a speedboat to travel to a traditional Burmese junk, moored deep within the wetlands, with your guide pointing our wildlife and birdlife en route.

After lunch on board, the afternoon is spent exploring a mangrove creek by self-paddled canoe, enjoying the pure tranquillity of nature, in an area almost untouched by humankind.

Your journey back to Elephant Hills includes a short stop at a local market. Dinner is served at 20:00.

Elephant Hills Camp

Breakfast, lunch and dinner

After breakfast, pack your swimwear for a day at Cheow Lan Lake. Stretching almost the entire length of Khao Sok National Park, the lake’s northern shoreline forms the border with the Khlong Saeng Wildlife Sanctuary.

You will explore the lake by traditional longtail boat. You can enjoy the spectacular scenery from the boat and will have time to dip into the lake’s emerald waters. There will be a stop for lunch and relaxation at the local raft house.

In the afternoon you can swim in the lake or borrow a kayak to explore a little further. The scenery is simply stunning, with steep-sided, limestone cliffs rising from the water. Look out for primates in the trees by the banks of the lake.

After more delicious Thai food back at Elephant Camp, you can enjoy the evening entertainment or just find a hammock in a quiet corner of the camp.

Elephant Hills Camp

Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Listen out for the gibbons again this morning, after another comfortable night’s sleep.

Then pull on your walking shoes to head into the jungle with an expert guide to learn about the flora and fauna of the National Park. You’ll likely see macaques or leaf monkeys swinging through the branches and multi coloured butterflies flitting between plants. Tropical hardwoods rise to the canopy and orchids, ferns and bamboo crowd the forest floor.

Enjoy a final buffet lunch before your transfer to Phuket or Surat Thani Airport or your next destination in southern Thailand.