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Elephant Hills Thailand adventure review

October 11, 2018 by Gretta Schifano 5 Comments

Long-tailed macaque in the mangroves, Thailand. Copyright Gretta Schifano

When you stay at Elephant Hills tented jungle camp in Thailand, all of the scheduled adventure activities are included, as well as your accommodation, meals and transfers. When you book, you need to think about which activities you’d like to do, so that you choose the package which is right for you. Elephant Hills is […]

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Categories: Active, Tents & caravans, Thailand
Tags: adventure, rainforest, wildlife

What’s it like to stay at Elephant Hills, Thailand?

September 14, 2018 by Gretta Schifano 6 Comments

Washing Tim the elephant, Elephant Hills, Thailand. Copyright Gretta Schifano

The second part of our family summer holiday was at Elephant Hills in Khao Sok National Park in Southern Thailand. Our flight from Bangkok (you can read about where we stayed in Bangkok here) to Surat Thani took just over an hour, and we were met there by a driver who took us to the Elephant Camp, […]

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Categories: Active, Room reports, Teens, Tents & caravans, Thailand
Tags: adventure, conservation, ethical elephant experience, glamping, malaria, rainforest, wildlife

Family safari: Kruger, South Africa

January 8, 2018 by Lorenza Bacino 3 Comments

Elephant, Kruger National Park, South Africa. Copyright Lorenza Bacino

This post is by Anglo-Italian journalist Lorenza Bacino. You can read about her experiences in Cape Town here. “In December, I was lucky enough to travel to South Africa with my husband and the kids (14 and 12) to stay with friends and experience the country as a local, which is always the best way, I […]

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Categories: Active, Africa, South Africa, Teens
Tags: elephants, Kruger National Park, wildlife, zebra

Helping Hedgehogs in the Hosepipe Ban

March 17, 2012 by Gretta Schifano 4 Comments

putting out water bowls for wild animals in the drought

With seven water companies set to introduce hosepipe bans from April, and the Environment agency warning that the drought could spread to other parts of the country, we’ve been regaling the children with our childhood memories of the summer of 1976. I clearly remember performing a rain dance with my friends on the school field, […]

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Categories: Seasonal
Tags: drought, gardens, hedgehogs, hosepipe ban, kids, moles, Simon Cowell, water shortage, wildlife, Wildlife Aid Foundation

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