Bali’s Elephant Safari Park

Bali has one elephant park which is located about 30 minutes north of Ubud’s Sayan Ridge. This place is a chance to amble through the island’s cool upland countryside on top of one of the world’s rarest elephant species, the Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus). You can ride it while enjoying the confines of a beautiful and mature tropical park.

This unique eco-friendly, soft adventure attraction, ideal for children, is located in the remote village of Taro, one of the island’s oldest Hindu communities deep in the mountains of Gianyar Regency in Bali.

Daily shows of the elephant’s amazing skills, intelligence an painting talents, as well as rides through the forest and hand feeding, are all part of this special once in a lifetime experience.

The park is the home of more than 15 elephants transported from the Way Kambas Reserve in southern Sumatra. Since their remaining natural habitat in Sumatra is steadily encroached by human settlements and commercial enterprises like palm oil plantations, the animal is considered a pest which tramples crops in search of food.

Officially classified as an endangered species, there is little or no protection for them in the wild and it is estimated that their numbers have been reduced by poachers to less than 1000. One of the animals at the Bali’s Park is missing a tusk as a result of baleful contact with a poacher.

The Bali Elephant’s Safari Park does not and cannot mimic a Sumatran rainforest. It does, however, give the elephants a near to perfect home where they are well cared for and receive the exercise and mental stimulation that any intelligent species of animal requires, providing an even safer habitat than their original home.

If you come to Bali I recommend you to visit this place and I am very sure that you will never forget the experience of riding an elephants through the Bali’s forestry.