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What is a Mahout?
Mahout means the elephant ‘driver’, ‘keeper’, or ‘handler'
What do you learn from this introductory course?
Learn how to ride an elephant on its neck like a mahout.
Learn how to take care of an elephant, how to handle it, how to give it verbal and physical commands.
Learn how to bathe your elephant with an opportunity to get close to it.
Mahout Learning Program in 2 Days / 1 Night |
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| Day 1 |
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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. |
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| Day 2 |
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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 |
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