I am very happy to post this family photo of Kerri and Micheal who joined our specially arranged six day mahout training course at Thai Elephant Conservation Center during 25-30 of December.. They have  the best time with elephants and mahouts here as what they said to me..

Kerri and Micheal had booked the mahout training course for over one year before and every day they keep watching the website to see what happen like many people and then they are very excited to meet the elephant.. Especially they children " Alias and Sebastian" really happy with their elephant.. Alias is only 7 years old and Sebastian is only 11 years old.. their elephant is Srisiam and Wanna.. and Kaew is elephant of Kerri and Prachaub is elephant of Micheal.

Kerri keeps crying almost every day, because she has very good time with the elephants here and they do not want to leave their elephant...They are very lovely family and also they promise that they will back again next year.

In this picture I took it as DD she is kissing her beloved boy " Jojo" DD she sent me a lot of emails and one of that email is to request Jojo as her elephant for three day mahout training course so I just arrange her my boy.

When she first met Jojo she said " Vow he is very big elephant" and she said to one of our tourist that she could not get on or off this elephant for three day and then we put them together and finally they are very compatible and well-get along.

And the last day I heard that DD said to Jojo " This is my boy and son" This word really makes me happy, because DD said on the first day that Jojo is very big and huge and the last day Jojo became like baby elephant..

I really wish if you are visiting this website will be back some day.

Supat Sutti and Jojo
Thai Elephant Conservation Center

Today morning when we walked into the forest to pick up the elephants with our tourists I just just found that the sun is rising with great colors, so Wanalee and Tiam just are just at the right place for this picture... I hope you will love this picture..

We wish you a Merry Christmas.. from elephants and Mahouts..I am very appreciated from the Technology that I can say " Merry Christmas" from different part of the world.. Now I can imagine that you guys are celebrating the the Christmas as we wish you have very good time and good health through your life.

Let sing " We wish you a merry Christmas, We wish you a merry Christmas and happy new year"

This time I got our friend who come along from Australia and  she is real fan of elephant " Anna" she just left home for this holiday to join our mahout training course for three time so far. And this time she bring the Christmas hat so that she can wear it as she is on the elephant neck and also she puts that hat on her favorite elephant " Prathida" I wish you will enjoy the photo and Christmas party tonight and happy a good sleep...

Please pass your happiness to every body as gift of Christmas.

Best regards,
Supat Sutti, Prathida, Prachaub and elephants from Thai Elephant Conservation Center












Above Prathida with her Chris Mas Hat..

It's quite very strange for me that we have all American Tourists joined our mahout training course at the same time even they did not book the training course together.. Marina is only one tourist who started her three day mahout training course on 19-21 of December and then Lynda and Lisa came from Lao after completing their three day Gibbon Experience, Brian and Lausa rent the car from Bangkok and keep traveling through the North on Thailand..

Thank you very much for joining our wonderful program..

Supat Sutti

View and Enjoy more photos of them, please visit the gallery by Click here!!

This photo was sent by one of Thai who join our three day mahout training course at Thai Elephant Conservation Center, but now she is living in Germany.. Thank you very much for sending the pictures as  AI is enjoying his bath in the morning...

Yesterday as we were waiting to the time to take the elephant for their first bath, I just stay around Prathida and her mahout John, Prathida just kept talking and I do not know what she is talking about but I know that sound is about to react to her mahout as she really loves John to Play with her.. Then Prachaub is also staying with Prathida as they are very good friend. (Prathida means Princess in Enlish)

John 's family is leaving the camp today caused me sad, because I miss their daughter they are so cute and lovely family in three day mahout training course during 13-15 December..So there are 5 tourists are leaving today.. Mark is solo guy from USA also enjoyed the experience with elephant " Pang Kod" and great mahout " Lai"

Mark said it 's very worth to fly 28 hours from United state for this trip..Thank for you guys to stay with us even it's very short day.

Today we have very lovely family from England joining our three day mahout training course during 13-15 of December. John, Julie, Ally and Umba are having wonderful time with their elephants.. John told me that when they first get off the plane in Bangkok, the first question that his daughter asked him is when they will meet the elephant.. So I am very happy that they really love the elephant and all girl are very excited to meet the elephant as they are still in Jet lag...In this video is to show that Ally is cleaning the dungs of her elephant " Kaew"  I wish that there will be a lot of family in the training course in the future.

This is another opportunity to update the picture of Prachaub and her tourist in the three day mahout training course... I just got accident from failing down the ladder at my house and I found that one bone on my toenail broken. So I have to be at the hospital for checking it and stay in the soft case for about a week. I really miss elephant while I was resting but now I am back to work with limb. Oh my god!!! I did so many tough job like trekking, running or rafting, but I just failed down the ladder and broke my toenail. It 's very funny that I feel very strong, but actually not.

So today I have opportunity to take  a lot of pictures of the tourist by the camera of one of my tourist.. The camera perform great, but I have no money to buy it.. Oh no.... !!! No money no honey!!!!!!! Poor Supat... I just keep waiting for other series of the camera released the end of this year.. So let enjoy this picture of Prachaub while she is picking the sandal of my tourist...

Supat and elephant

We miss you..

I would like to inform all you guys about the possibility to join our three day training course and two day mahout training course in December and January is impossible as our courses are fully booked by the tourists who send their requests earlier then they got their reservation. So I would like to recommend all your guys to join our one day mahout training course instead, please send your email to find out the availability of the course, then we will confirm you within 24 hours.

Best regards,
Supat Sutti

Coordinator of Mahout training course
Thai Elephant Conservation Center

Dear all tourists who would like to participate in our three day or two day mahout training course at Thai Elephant Conservation Center, I would like to inform you guys that our course is fully booked during December till 25 of January next year as during this time is the high season for the north of Thailand. There are so many westerner are traveling to Thailand and Southeast Asia and we require only ten tourists as maximum in each course.

Best regards,
Supat Sutt

Mahout Training Coordinator.
Thai Elephant Conservation Center

They are very lovely family joined our mahout training course during 7-9 December, in the picture Katherine is trying to get her dad wet.. and it seems Prathida she is very good with her mahout... This is most trouble maker..

This week we have very lovely family from Denmark and Australia in our three day mahout training course at Thai Elephant Conservation Center.. They have very good time with their elephant.. as I hope there will be a lot of family will keep joining our course in the future..

Please visit the gallery for more pictures More pictures of them click here!!

As far as I know River Kwai became well known especially to the international tourists after the movie 'Bridge Over the River Kwai' referring to the WWII when the Japanese forced all prisoners of Wars (POWs) to build the bridge. Bridge over the River Kwai is an academy award winning movie in 1957 based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivi?re Kwa? by French writer Pierre Boulle . Many people watched the movie or read novel then inspired them to come and experience the bridge and pay tribute to those people who contributed in building this bridge. Not only that, it is also a good opportunity to remind human of our inhuman mistake. For some people, they just come to the bridge following other tourists and just don't pay much attention to it but they sured developed some sad impression and felt sorry for those who are gone during the war. All in all those who came to the bridge at least learned something out of this steel structure spanning over the calm and beautiful river.


I came to witness this bridge several times after several years of working as a tour leader. My job is to entertain people to understand and learn to understand our past inhumane mistakes before we could move on. I am not trying to blame and divide people into two extreme bad-good sides because of their conflict of interest. I am just looking at how we can reach peace in a peaceful manner instead of using violence to attain peace. The world does not seem to understand this fact…"hate breeds hates. As a tourist I need to make tourists see and trying to honor those whose lives are forced to involve with this affair.

Seven is the unofficial name of this baby elephant who came from Chiang Mai to the Elephant Hospital, because his mother did not have enough milk for him, so he was brought to the Elephant Hospital for the vet  and the mahout to look after him.

This baby elephant was born on 7 of July 2007 that why his name is seven that many people called that baby elephant's name. Now he is very healthy, because we feed him with the infant formula every day. At the first arrival at the Elephant Hospital, he was very skinny, because he had not enough milk from his mother which normally the new born baby elephant has to drink milk from their own mother within 8-12 hours otherwise the baby elephant become very week.

This baby elephant has very interested story, I hope you will love the video of him.

Good luck.. Seven.

Today morning the mother elephant and her baby were taken to bath by their mahout, as we are riding the elephant at the show. They were bathing in the other side of the reservoir. The baby elephant he is very playful, but the mother is afraid of cold water in the morning..

This couple were brought to the elephant hospital, because the mother did not have enough milk for her baby. So the owner of this elephant brought this elephant to the elephant hospital for the vet to take care of them.  The baby elephant was born in July 07 2007, so he has very lucky number is 7.

Dear all tourists,
I would like to inform you guys who interested to join our mahout training course in December, now our course is fully booked in advanced by many tourist. As now is the high season of tourism in Thailand.. There are so many tourists keep sending me a lot of emails, I can not find any space for them.. I am very sorry that we can not accept any reservation in December any more..

Please book our mahout training course in January by send the inquiry form and wait for our confirmation email.

Best regards,
Supat Sutti

A couple day ago when I went to the forest to collect the elephants with the Australian tourists, we met the mahout of Sri dor was taking his elephant for first bath.. It's pretty cold morning so the mahout just command his elephant to dive into the pool by himself.. the pictures shown in this site is for the tourists who miss the fattest and piggiest elephant in the camp "Sri Dor Yai" his name means " Mr. Big" and he deserves this name..