MandaLao was opened in November 2016 and is located 25 minutes from Luang Prabang in the village of Ban Xieng Lom. We are the first and only non-riding elephant experience in Luang Prabang. We have nine adult female elephants and one two-year-old baby boy, Kit. MandaLao is here help visitors connect with elephants in the most natural way possible in elephant tourism today. Our tours focus on education, elephant welfare and provide trekking in a small group in the jungle with elephants. Our Mission is to demonstrate respect for and understanding of elephants by providing our guests a wholly educational and interactive experience. Our goal is to help visitors connect with elephants in the most natural way possible in elephant tourism today. It is our hope that this knowledge will spread, promoting increasingly humane and ethical treatment of elephants across Laos and beyond its borders. With your support, we preserve and protect both captive elephants and those who remain in the wild. We do this through responsible tourism, education, and sustainable relationships with the local community.