In Reply to: Elephant park posted by Ellie on Monday, 15. November 2004 at 21:31 Bali Time:
Hubby and I just got back on Friday (sob sob). we hired a driver and van for a full day for 1700rp (and 50000 tip for driver on the sly) and one of the places we went was the Bali adventure Tours Elephant park just out of Ubud. It cost us 155,000rp entry for the 2 of us (I kept my receipts amongst the souveniers) We didn't bother with the ride as hubby was a bit dubious about the big animals LOL. The elephants are extremely well looked after and its obvious they are happy and content. You get real upclose to them, I sat on ones lap,hugged one while another was kissing the back of my neck, had one put a flower lei around my neck and fed and petted almost all of them I think. It was a magical afternoon. The park is beautiful with plenty of lovely cool places to relax in the manicured gardens. The restaurant is great and very inexpensive,hubby had a double hamburger that was so big he had to eat it with a knife and fork (sacriledge LOL)and a lge bintang and I had a salad with chicken,ham,egg and a jungle juice and it all came to 115000rp. We then saw the elephant show at 3.30, it was great. Well worth the visit.
We went to the other elephant park by mistake the day before and turned around and left straight away, it was filthy and very expensive.