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Phuket Elephant Sanctuary: Booking Tips for Ethical Tours

Seeing elephants up close in Phuket can feel like the kind of trip that changes you. It also sits right on top of one of the tourism industry’s messier fault lines: there are a lot of places that use the word “sanctuary,” and not all of them behave like one. If you care about the animals, booking well matters almost as much as the day you actually visit. I’ve done my share of elephant encounters over the years, and the difference between “a day with elephants” and “a day