:: 4 Days Mahout Course :: The Mahout Lodge in Luang Prabang

4 Days Mahout Course

Day 2

06:00

07:40

08:10

09:00

12:00
12:10
13:30

15:30

17:00
18:00
19:00
20:00

Wake up to retrieve your elephant from the rain forest where it sleeps at night.
Setup the elephant’s howdah and ride it back to our elephant camp where you will help feed the elephant its breakfast.
Breakfast served to you at our All Lao Elephant Camp Restaurant.
Take your elephant for a ride on your own, riding on it’s neck and practice giving it commands. Are you a good mahout? Is your elephant following your directions? Your mahout will accompany you by foot to insure safety and control.
Direct your elephant to the Nam Khan River for its bath.
Lunch is served at our elephant camp restaurant.
You serve your elephant its lunch of various grasses and elephant food to make sure its feed.
Opportunity to practice your control of the elephant further with commands by riding it into the rain forest for approximately 1.5 hours.
Return to the Mahout Eco Lodge
Dinner is served at our Lodge’s restaurant.
More education on elephants and the life of a mahout.
Free time to relax and enjoy life along the riverbank.

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Day 3

06:30

08:00
09:00

12:30
13:30
15:30

18:30

Wake up to retrieve the elephant from the jungle where it stays and sleeps at night to give it a bath in the Nam Khan.
Have your breakfast at the Mahout Lodge Restaurant.
Ride your elephant on its neck back into the jungle where it
feeds during the day gaining more experience taking it up and
down the surrounding hills and terrain. The elephant will be
stopping to eat plants and herbs along the route that forms its natural diet. One of the elephant’s herbal diet is ‘khua khao hor’ which is a vine that has medicinal properties in an elephant’s diet.
Have your packed picnic lunch in the jungle.
The guide will teach more about how to take care of the elephant.
Return to the jungle where you participate with the mahout in preparing the site where the elephant will sleep for the night. The mahout will seek out an area where there is enough grass and food.
Dinner is served at the Mahout Lodge with ample ‘free or pen time’ at your disposal.