SAMUI: Explore the samui way of life with feeding elephants
- Visiting the ancient house, one of the oldest house style on Samui island
- Explore the Samui coconut handicraft to observe the process from coconut product
- Visit Samui Elephant Home nursery to make the supplement food for feed elephants
- Travel around rustic villages and meet local people on the island
- Having traditional Thai food as Table chef and try special menu from local chef
What to expect
Samui Elephant Home caring and education center bring everyone to be a part of the different tourism for helping and support the local communities in Samui Island. We will be getting to know the history, culture, tradition, and the way of life of the Samui people in the local area. Starting with pick up everyone from the hotel depend on the location and drive a car to first visit the ancient house in Samui (Ban Bo Ran) one of the oldest houses in Samui, which older than 150 years ago around 30–45 minutes drive a car.
Firstly, get some of the welcome drink and receive introduction about the objective and information about the program. Then, observe the ancient house together and walking around the garden to see the herb plantation around the house that local people made juice from Thai herb and try the traditional Thai dessert with made from coconut as a dessert. Next, drive alongside the beach to see the local life in Samui and stop to take a rest to see the most beautiful pagoda (Laemsor) receive some information from tour guide take a relax and take pictures with pagoda. In this location, we can see the beautiful view with the sea and a lot of the island nearly with Samui.
After that, we come to visit one of the well-known souvenir product from this island with made from coconut tree and coconut shell to observe the process from beginning until the end to become a product from local people and take a look for a few minutes to see the souvenir together. Next, we take a car together to visit a local farm to having lunch. Enjoy a special menu from the chef as you see how the chef cooks, smell the ingredients and try a special menu from the local chef.
Lastly, We visit Samui Elephant Home in nursery camp to help new elephants by get to know the concept of caring elephants and helping to make the supplement together for feeding elephants. After this, time to finish our program saying goodbye to our local tour guide and back to the hotel with happiness to support local people and helping to take care of elephants together.
