HIKING WITH ELEPHANTS (ETHICALLY)!: Elephant Valley Project, Cambodia!

Seeing elephants in an ethical way can be difficult, but we found a wonderful sanctuary outside of Senmonorom, Mondulkiri, Cambodia. It's The Elephant Valley Project!

Unlike the fake sanctuaries around South East Asia, this one was legit. The places that let you ride, pet, feed, play or bathe with the elephants... The places that force these animals to do tricks for you like pick you up with their trunks or paint you a picture... Those places don’t have the animals best interest at heart and often do major physical and mental and emotional harm to their elephants. Elephant Valley Project, however, is different.

Their elephants are out enjoying their lands while being watched and cared for by their mahouts. When groups of visitors come to see the elephants, the mahouts radio their location and we hike off to them. We watch the elephants enjoy going where they like and doing what they want. Because these aren’t wild elephants that can’t care for themselves, this is the closest to natural their lives can get.

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