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Explore 3 southern Thai provinces in 2 days!! Experience Phuket’s best elephant trek and experience with elephants, Thai elephant conservation and Real Thai rural life are explained. Cooking demonstrations, baby Elephants and much more! From here transfer to the mainland where you will visit ancient temples with their Buddist beliefs and the unique caves and waterfalls of the Phang Nga and Krabi provinces. Overnight and explore mangrove forests untouched for decades, get to know prehistoric man through the paintings he has painted on the inside of southern Thailand’s caves. A chance to experience the true variety of the south.

Day 1
Pick up from your hotel and transfer to Chalong. Travel by four wheel drive Land Rover into Chalong highlands. Arrive at Siam Safari elephant camp on the top of a mountain. Meet Siam Safari’s elephants; learn about them and the mahouts who take care of them and also about Thai elephant conservation and how you can help. See how young elephants are trained, you can touch them and feed them bananas. Trek on elephant back in Chalong highlands, good views over Chalong bay and out to Phi Phi island can be seen along the way. This is Phuket’s best elephant trek and best cared for elephants. The only elephant camp in southern Thailand to have attained the Thai government standard award. See how Thai jungle curry is made and try some if you dare. See how rubber trees are “tapped” to produce natural rubber latex. Watch how monkey’s are trained to pick coconuts and see them in action. Learn about buffalo’s, you can try to sit on one as well, try a ride on a wooden cart pulled by buffalo. See how coconuts are processed to make coconut milk and oil. The tour ends with a delicious buffet lunch, a selection of Thai dishes cooked not to spicy.

In the afternoon, transfer by air con vehicle and drive off Phuket Island towards Ao Luk, Phang Nga province, passing rubber plantations and small villages en route. Arrive in Phang Nga town and spend the afternoon visiting local temples and spectacular caves looking at Stalactites and Stalagmites rising and falling in the caves interior. Visit a traditional coffee house and sample the specialties, local coffee ‘Kaffe Boran’ and sweets ‘Kanom Waan’ a favorite of the locals. Head to the hotel in Ao Luk and check in to your air conditioned room and prepare for evening dinner. Head into town to one of the local restaurants for a dinner of local Thai dishes cooked not too spicy. Transfer back to the hotel and overnight.

Day 2
After breakfast head to the mangroves of Ao Luk. Take a long tail boat through some of the last areas of the mangrove forest in Thailand passing local people who have worked the mangroves for centuries. Arrive at the site of thousand year old prehistoric cave paintings, cave Pee Hooa Tor. Pass ancient paintings and marvel at the images these prehistoric people have drawn. On a par with the aboriginal paintings in Australia this is truly the wonder of Ao Luk. After exploring the caves of Ao Luk, travel to Laem Sak for a seafood lunch with views over the Ao Luk bay. After Lunch head to the waterfall Than Borkoranee on the way back to your hotel. Arrive back at hotels in Phuket in the early evening.

Additional information:

Please bring non slip foot wear, sports shoes are OK, a change of footwear, changes of clothes, swim wear, towel, sun protection or a rain coat as the weather can be changeable, torch.
Drinks/alcohol and items of a personal nature are not included.

Rates:

01 Nov 09 - 31 Oct 10   

Adult Rate: AU$250 
Child Rate: AU$140 
Single Supplement: AU$35

Prices are based on twin share basis, single room supplement AU$35