We spent 10 days touring Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and this was THE most fun! You’ll learn about elephants and interact with them up close. Hard to tell if the animals are being exploited for tourism but generally, I got the feeling that they are...More

I would not recommend this place. During my visit I was always having this uncomfortable feeling that something was not okey. Seeing elephants constantly being ridden by tourists, going on their knees to take pictures, doing tricks...Basically being treated like pets. They explain you that...More

We spent four days at Shangri-lao elephant camp and were very impressed. Having been involved with animals great and small all my (long) life, I know the elephants are luckier to be there than slaving in the logging industry. Of course I’d rather see them...More

Checked this place out. They mainly seem to excel at promoting themselves on TripAdvisor. Was also told by other places that wild elephants really don’t like having humans ride them, and basically the only way to force them to let humans ride them is by...More

They rescue old and or worn out Elephants here. You can take a 1 hour ride on one if you would like. Or just watch them as they cross the river taking riders. $10 US entrance fee.Cost of the ride?

This place claims to be ethical and care about elephants but yet they allow tourists to ride them. Read up on how they get elephants used to being ridden, it’s terrible and no place that allows it cares about the elephants, they are just using...More

On their website they advertise that they are recommended by newspaper “the guardian”. After a research we could find that the guardian recommends only one sanctuary in Laos, which is not this one but is 80km away. The guardian recommends only sanctuary where rides on...More