Elephant and Wildlife Watching in Kuiburi National Park - Private Afternoon Tour
Overview
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7 hours
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Kuiburi National Park is the only place in Thailand where more than 320 protected wild elephants live and you will have the unique 99% opportunity to see them in this untouched wildlife. In addition to Asian elephants and gaurs, the other relatively common mammals are golden jackals, various deer, langurs, white-handed gibbons, Burmese hares, Malay porcupines and wild boars. Kui Buri has a rich fauna of birds with over 260 species currently. Crested falcons, grey peacock pheasants, ferrous partridges, Tickell's brown hornbills, white-crowned hornbills, brown fish owls, yellow-ventilated green pigeons, white-fronted dwarf-eared owls, mustache hawks, red-necked hornbills, blue-collared parrots, chestnut-nickel fork tails, red-bearded bee-eaters, maroon woodpeckers.There are also birds like the Crested Fireback, Indian Roller and Asian Openbill bird or even gaurs and leopards.
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Specialized infant seats are available
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
What To Expect
Kui Buri
Kuiburi Visitor Center is a 1-hour drive away from Hua Hin by air-conditioned car. You will swap the vehicle into a 4-wheel pick-up car, on seats on the open back of the car. Before the Tour Guide show you around the Visitor Center and give you useful information about the Park
Kui Buri National Park
There are still about 320 Protected Wild Elephants living in this National Park and you will see them coming out to eat. Let's also visit the beautiful dry-moist forest and we can spot some birds such as the Crested Fireback, Indian Roller and Asian Openbill bird! Sometimes we could spot some Gaurs, Leopards. Please note before making a booking: These elephants are freely in the Wildlife National Park, not in a zoo or animal garden. There is a 95% chance of seeing elephants in the wild. However, we cannot guarantee with 100% certainty that will see elephants or how many you will see. Sometimes you may see them from a distance, or they may be just a few hundred meters away There are also many other to observe, such as birds and gaur.
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Elephant and Wildlife Watching in Kuiburi National Park - Private Afternoon Tour
Pickup included
What‘s Included
Private transportation
Travel Insurance during the Trip
Bottled water
All Fees and Taxes
Dinner
Air-conditioned vehicle
Professional Tour Guide
Coffee and/or Tea
Alcoholic Beverages
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Reviews
80 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
A perfect day
Jamie A,Jun 1, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00What a perfect day! M was flexible and allowed us to customize our trip in a way that worked for us. He was an excellent tour guide and we enjoyed spending the day with him and the elephants!
Outstanding experience
Shirlene S,May 7, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00From start to finish, it was five star picked up at the hotel by our guide. Got a lot of educational information on the way to the park once we’re in the park. We had a spotter and a driver that took us through the Park very informational and fantastic. Once we were done after seeing wonderful wildlife elephants and.Guri and birds we went to an absolute fantastic restaurant on the way back. The best Thai food that we had had in two weeks since we were there. It was five star experience from start to finish. Pui our guide was extremely knowledgeable very helpful highly recommend.
We booked this private...
Jacqueline K,Apr 9, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00We booked this private tour excited for the possibility of seeing elephants and our guide, Sam, arrived to pick us up at our hotel right on time. We thought he was great - he was very knowledgeable and was always pointing things out, even on the drive to the national park. At one point he even pulled the car over to show us pineapples growing! We learned so much before the tour even officially started! The first animal we saw was a monitor lizard and we were all pretty excited about that! Inside we saw one lone elephant (a male) from a distance. We also saw a gaur at one point. As the tour was wrapping up, Sam yelled to the driver to stop the vehicle saying he saw something. It was very far away and if it were just us looking, we wouldn’t have seen anything! His ability to spot elephants was amazing! Sure enough, there were several elephants trying to decide if they wanted to come out from behind the trees to the watering hole. There were even two babies! Of course, it was quite far away and we would have loved to have seen them a bit closer but you know, they’re wild so seeing them at all was amazing. My only suggestion would be to book the private tour. I had thought about doing a shared tour and I’m so glad I didn’t. At the lookout points we would come into contact with others and one other vehicle had teenagers that didn’t want to be there (glued to their phones, arguing, complaining they lost their internet connection, overall just being loud and obnoxious). If I had to share a vehicle with that negative energy it would seriously piss me off. Just sharing the lookout points with them was hard enough. So yeah, do yourself a favor and book the private tour.
What a let down
andresonville,Feb 26, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
2.00Drove two hours from Hua Hin. Nice scenery and landscapes. No elephant to see. Just a hoard of jeeps on bumpy roads all meeting to a spot. No animal whatsoever apart from a few chickens and a couple of hornbills. I think the park needs some lessons from African camps on wildlife conservation and tourist viewing
Kui Buri: One hundred tourists and five elephants
Siegfried T,Feb 26, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00The tour itself was very well executed, and the included dinner was excellent. However, Kui Buri is only suitable for tourists who have never seen elephants in the wild. At the beginning of the Kui Buri ride, there were a hundred tourists crammed together with just one elephant. By the end, there were a hundred tourists and five elephants in the far distance. We managed to get some good pictures with a 1200 mm lens.
Amazing experience with private guide
V4262RGdannyb,Jan 28, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Perfect guide with a lot of interesting facts about both the animals and personal experiences. We didn’t see Elephants but we did see Gaurs and a Black Panther through the camera lens.
Expensive and interest-free
BERNARD33240,Jan 26, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
2.00Before this visit I had read comments that it was possible not to see elephants I was aware that it is a nature park but not a zoo I explain the guide at the beginning of the tour tells us yesterday we saw an elephant at 16:00 We arrived at a viewpoint and waited like all the other pickups for over an hour Then miraculously at 3:58 p.m. one of the guides shouts an elephant at the bottom about 800 meters This coincidence seemed doubtful to me but I thought why not In the days that followed I met several people who visited this park years ago and confirmed to me that the scenario was the same namely appearance of an elephant around 4:00 pm It's obvious that this park makes live a lot of locals between guides and pickup drivers but I think this tour is a business and a tourist trap For information and personal opinion
The tour was great. The...
Priscila V,Jan 3, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00The tour was great. The guide very friendly, professional and welcoming. It was a great experience..
A bit of a drive from Hua Hin (2hr) but worth it
Verge,Dec 28, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00It was worth the 2hr drive from Hua Hin to reserve to see so many elephants. The guides taking us there and within the park was great.
Nice tour
David L,Oct 29, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Very easy to book and everything was perfectly planned. The guide was very professional and possessed a lot of knowledge.
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