Visit the elephant community project
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
· visiting the Phnong village and the culture
· feeding and hiking with elephants through the jungle (no elephant riding)
· swimming with and washing the elephant at waterfall
· learning about elephants and Bunong culture and traditions
· lunch, relaxing and get history about the local mahouts
The program:
8:30am make the tour by car to the village of minority on the hill around the forest . make the tour around the village and learn about the house and Bunong culture.
9:30am the car stop and start to walking down hill to the rain-forest and visit where the elephant living . walking in the forest and the beautiful landscape go to see where is the elephant living near the river .
10:30am meet the elephant and get welcome from the community elephant and community of the mahout.
10:40am elephant come close to you and you can feed them the bananas.
11:00am elephant get out from you they go to the jungle and have food from the nature and you will see the elephant eat bamboo and the free and some time you can see they breaking tree and see they put the ground on the back of themselves.
11:30am Our guide will give to you all the info about elephant history and you learn more about the mahouts life and they will tell you about the elephant when they get sick and some the traditional the way of the elephant and the Bunong life …(explain by the Bunong guide speaking English)
12:30pm you will have the good lunch and share lunch with the local community taste the food from the jungle cooking …from Bunong lady. You will enjoy with your big family in the forest.
1:00pm you will relaxing and share some experience about you and the community for improve the project.
1:30pm you can go and take the swimming at the waterfall and also yo u can jump too.
2:30 pm the community elephant come to the river and they will wash the elephant you also can help them too and after they will let the elephant wash by them self and you can see is so nice I can talk about that ….(:
3:30 pm we will walk back to the car and driving back to coffee plantation and visit the tropical fruit like coffee avocado …
5:00pm arrive at Sen monorom and you go to your hotel :
The price is 45$ including water , transport,lunch , guide , fee.....