One Hour Elephant Trekking The visitors will ride on the back of an elephant through local farmland and bush for about 45-50 minutes (2 persons will share the basket strapped to the back of one elephant). After making a brief stop at the Silk House, visitors will return to the Elephant Village by Land Rover. At the village, visitors will be served with complimentary fruits in season. This service takes place four times daily with the first trek at 09.00 hrs. (A minimum of 4 persons is required) The other treks take place at 10.30, 12.30, 16.00 hrs. Bookings should be made in advance. The price is 1,200 Baht per person and 1,000 Baht for children under 100 cm in height. Each booking: minimum 2 persons.
Elephant Village The Elephant Village was opened in Pattaya in 1973 as a sanctuary for former working elephants. These elephants, through reasons of injury or ill health, can no longer be used as a part of the backbone of heavy work in the jungles of Thailand. Also because of their diminishing habitat, it is now longer possible to return them to the wild.
The Elephant Village provides then magnificent creatures with a safe haven, where they may live out their lives with dignity and freedom from fear. A visit to the Elephant Village is not only unique experience, but it is also a lifesaver because the fees paid by our visitors contribute to, the very survival of the elephants, both now and in the future.
The Elephant Village is a private company, which is run on a non‑profit making basis and after running expenses have been deducted, all of the proceeds go to feed, pay the medical bills and generally take care of the elephants. It receives neither government support nor sponsorship from any large company or international organization.
ELEPHANT SANCTUARY BY PHAIRAT CHAIYAKHAM Khun Phairat knows a lot about elephants. He has been an elephant keeper for more than thirty years. He loves the giant animals and from his affection for them he has created a successful business. “I used to wonder about elephants when I was a boy,” he explains. “How do you feed them and how much food must they have every day? Now I know the answer. It costs a lot to keep elephants – between 1,000 and 5,000 THB a day for food and medicines per each elephant.”
Khun Phairat has thirty elephants and employs some one hundred staff to look after them. Every day he organizes three shows and more than 1,000 visitors crowd into the show ground to watch the 90-minute demonstration. As managing Director of Pattaya Elephant Village, Khun Phairat designed the show himself. “It’s a typical day in the life of an elephant, starting with the Elephant bathing. If you want to see the type of show that you find in a circus, you won' t find it on my premises,” he says. Some elephant shows feature games of football and other gimmicks, but Khun Phairat dispenses with that and sticks to the authentic lifestyle of the working elephant. “We run the business for our family and our elephants. We guarantee that our elephants are well treated and are not afraid of our visitors.” At the Elephant Village there is plenty of space for feeding and the natural surroundings are good for the elephants.
  2 WAYS TO PLAY 1.Combination Trekking which lasts about three and a half hours. This activity starts with an Elephant Ride, which lasts approximately ONE HOUR (2 persons will share the basket strapped to the back of one elephant) followed by a 20 minutes accompanied jungle walk followed by a visit to the Silk House. This will be followed by 20 minutes being ferried across a local lake, finishing with a return ride to the Elephant Village on ox-carts. Upon return to the Elephant village, the visitors will then be served with a home cooked buffet lunch or dinner. This program takes place twice daily at 10.30 hrs and 16.00 hrs. The price is 2,000 Baht per person and 1,600 Baht for children under 100 cm in height. Each booking: minimum 2 persons.
2.One Hour Elephant Trekking : The visitors will ride on the back of an elephant through local farmland and bush for about 45-50 minutes (2 persons will share the basket strapped to the back of one elephant). After making a brief stop at the Silk House, visitors will return to the Elephant Village by Land Rover. At the village, visitors will be served with complimentary fruits in season. This service takes place four times daily with the first trek at 09.00 hrs. (A minimum of 4 persons is required) The other treks take place at 10.30, 12.30, 16.00 hrs. Bookings should be made in advance. The price is 1,200 Baht per person and 1,000 Baht for children under 100 cm in height. Each booking: minimum 2 persons.  Pattaya
Most of the officially registered Pattaya residents are of Thai-Chinese ancestry. Due to the tourist industry, many people from the northeast (known as Isan, the poorest region of Thailand) have come to work in Pattaya, and are counted for census purposes in their hometowns.
There is a fast-growing community of foreign retirees living in Pattaya. Thailand immigration has a special visa category for foreigners over age 50 who wish to retire in Thailand. Pattaya is attractive to many retirees from other countries not only because of its climate and exotic, easy lifestyle, but also because living costs are lower than in many countries.
Night Life
Pattaya has derived part of its reputation as a tourist destination due to the sex industry and the resulting nightlife, and in many ways the city has become what it is now because of this. Prostitution in Thailand is technically illegal but reality shows that it is tolerated as is the case for Pattaya with its vast numbers of host bars, gogo bars, massage parlours, saunas, and hourly hotels, serving foreign tourists as well as locals. This is prevalent in the Walking Street as well as other areas around the city. Efforts have of late been made to clean up the city's image.
Pattaya also has Asia's largest gay scene based around Boyztown and Sunee Plaza. The city is also famous for its flamboyant kathoey cabaret shows where transsexual and transgender entertainers perform to packed houses.
Halloween Holiday
With a few weeks to go before Halloween Holiday!!! Exciting!! Do you ever think of spending this longawaited holiday in somewhere else? Pattaya is the most recommended place.
As the party capital of Thailand, Pattaya has embraced the western tradition with various entertainment venues and wild Halloween parties in bars. On 31st October, the whole town seems like turning into a horrible hell with ghoulish, frightening and crazy creatures.
Come to venture down Pattaya in Halloween this year!!
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