Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort has a new two-hour Walking with Giants experience.
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Guests can join the elephants on their daily stroll, accompanied by their mahout caregivers and either the camp's resident vet or biologist.
Set up in 2003 as a traditional mahout village, the Elephant Camp works alongside Anantara's Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation.
More than 40 elephants have been rescued from Thailand's city streets, of which 20 now live in the jungle environment of Anantara's Elephant Camp, along with their entire mahout family, who receive English lessons, education for their children, and 100 per cent of the profits from the sale of garments from a traditional silkworm business.
The Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation also co-operates with the Thai government and other organisations in bigger-picture projects. It has helped to fund research and clinics using elephants in therapy sessions for children living with autism.
It equipped the first elephant hospital in Krabi, southern Thailand, with an all-terrain vehicle, and has donated to the Thai Elephant Conservation Centre in Lampang, among other things, a purpose-built elephant ambulance and a gantry to help lame elephants stand.
