Cambodian Elephant Sanctuary Blog

Hello and welcome to the Elelphant Sanctuary blog week 2 of the July village and elephant journey. Today we all arrived safely at about 10AM all 16 of us. We had an amazing lunch here with some of the most creative vegetarian flavours I have ever seen. The volunteers will be eating souly organic and…

Yesterday and today has been an absolute blast. We headed to a local school and all our volunteers got to teach English to some of the most beautiful children you will ever meet, even those volunteers who were unsure about teaching instantly fell in love with them and had an amazing time. We played games,…

  Today was another perfect day. We woke up nice and early and after some delicious brekky we got stuck into our morning jobs. Walking the elephants is probably the highlight but we also built a monkey house and continued making the pond which is looking fantastic. We really enjoyed our day learning and helping…

Today our volunteers woke up to the amazing sounds of the jungle, they heard elephants, monkeys, birds and geckos. They all had a great night sleep and were ready to enjoy their first full day. We had one group building a house, one group building a pond for the monkeys and one group got to…

  Today I got to meet my new amazing group of volunteers and I am so excited to get to know them over this next week. Today we headed out to the sanctuary and everyone is absolutely loving it. We all settled into our rooms and played some fun getting to know you games. After…

Today is a sad day for all of us. Our last day together. In such a short time we have all become such a close family. I know the children, culture and especially the elephants will always have a spot in our hearts and we are lucky to know that it is never a good…

Hello everyone, we are back in action. Over this last week at the elephant sanctuary we have walked with elephants, built a pond for the monkeys, built a house, fed and looked after four beautiful elephants, learnt about the illegal logging industry, learnt about the tourism industry and the horrible torture the elephants go and…

  Just before we get stuck into this amazing post I just wanted to say that the wifi has been dow  and unfortunately I haven’t been able to post. I’m not sure when it will be up and running but stay tuned and I will get up some pictures when I can but know this…….