Mahout Learning Program in 2 Days / 1 Night

Time Activities

Day 1

09:20 Transfer from your hotel to our All Lao Elephant Camp

09:40 Arrive at our Elephant Camp and check into our Mahout Eco Lodge.

10:00 Register and receive a mahout uniform.  Then begin your elephant trek  into the

rain forest  and onwards to the Nam Khan River.

12:30 Lao-style lunch at our elephant camp restaurant.

13: 00 Learn about elephant background, information and the mahout’s verbal and

physical ‘commands’. Meet your elephant’s mahout.  Then learn how to secure the

‘howdah’ on the elephant’s back, how you should sit on it’s back and neck, and how to

direct or control your elephant.  Then practice your knowledge and experience with our

baby and younger elephants.

14:30 Visit local villages and visit Henry Mohout’s grave site.  Mohout, a Frenchman,

‘rediscovered’ Angkor Wat.

15: 00 Enjoy swimming or tubing on the scenic Nam Khan River 

16: 30 ‘Drive’ your elephant, returning it to his sleeping place in the rain forest and enjoy

activities with your mahout guide. 

17: 30 Relax and enjoy your free time.

19: 30 Lao-style dinner and overnight at our Mahout Eco Lodge.

Day 2

06:30 Retrieve your elephant from the rain forest and direct it to the Nam Khan for a bath

which you participate in.

07:40 Ride your elephant back to our camp. Then experience feeding your elephant its

grass diet and food.

08:10 After having your breakfast, and subject to your interest CHOOSE between a hill-

tribe’s trek to a Khamu or Hmong village, OR  kayaking or bamboo rafting  OR  visiting 

Tad Sae Waterfall.

16:00 Transfer back to your hotel