Why visit us?
Our elephants are very happy!
The interaction is on initiative of our elephants.
Our elephants are always together.
We take our time, the activity is nice and slow.
We don't ride our elephants.
At the EFP we take our time, the activity is nice and slow.
We offer a very long time together with our elephants.
Everything goes very slow and very relaxed. We really take our time.
And we have a strict limit on the number of visitors.
You will see truly happy elephants!
At the EFP the elephants are our first priority, not the tourists.
We offer a shelter for our elephants.
Before they came to us, they had a hard life.
They have been working in the harsh elephant riding industry.
And then we saved them!
Our elephants are going through their normal day and the visitors can follow them.
Our elephants will approach you,
not the other way round.
We provide each visitor with a basket of fruit.
The elephants know that visitors have tasty snacks and love to interact with them.
Everywhere around us are the horrible elephant riding places.
The poor elephants living there have no freedom, all their movement is restricted.
They are regularly being hit and shouted at.
When there are no tourists they are chained up. This on a very short chain and usual in the sun.
In the afternoon their keepers get drunk and the abuse is getting even worse.
(In the video below you will see one of our neighbors).
At the EFP we don't ride our elephants or offer "elephant walks".
Riding is so bad for elephants.
At some places each elephant carries 80 tourists per day!
Buses full of people.
When the tourists ride them (or on a so called "elephant walk"!) they follow a set route, are not allowed to choose their own way and are forced to obey.
Not at our project, our elephants are free to do what they like and to go where they want.
We love our elephants!
At the EFP we do not separate our elephants. Elephants are social animals.
Our elephants are always together during the day
and this makes them so happy!
We don't offer bathing tours. At other places you can bath the elephant for 5 minutes in the river, then the next tourist will come and the next, and the next, and the next...
At our place there is one moment a day that the elephants go in the river. This is always on their on initiative and they can leave whenever they like. There is absolutely no forcing.
Our elephant keepers are the best,
they are very well behaved and truly love their elephants
and
the elephants love them too!
Our elephants are very happy at our Project.
Our visitors have noticed this too,
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