Elephant PooPooPaper Park Chiang Mai Review
Are you wondering what to expect when you visit Elephant PooPooPaper Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand?
I stumbled across Elephant PooPooPaper Park while researching things to do with my family in Chiang Mai. While I knew I wanted to visit, I wasn’t sure what to expect once we got there.
Elephant PooPooPaper Park is located outside the gated area in Chiang Mai. To get there, you can take the bus, take a taxi, or drive yourself. We ended up booking a car with a driver for the day and combining Elephant PooPooPaper Park with Sticky Falls.
An outdoor museum, Elephant PooPooPaper Park, has tours throughout the day where you can learn about the process of turning elephant poop into usable paper.
Keep reading to find out what to expect during a visit to Elephant PooPooPaper Park.
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Getting Tickets for Elephant PooPooPaper Park
While you can sign up for a tour upon arrival, online bookings close an hour before each tour, so it is best to book ahead of time. They run tours every 40 minutes, from 9 AM until 4 PM.
You can pre-purchase your tickets at the official website. If you want to take a tour that includes a visit to the park among other places, you can book through Get Your Guide or Viator.
Taking a Tour
Tours are available daily in both English and Chinese.
We signed up for our tour in advance and arrived early. That gave us time to check out the shop and walk around a little bit before our tour began.
On the tour, we learned about the fibre in elephant poo and how it is collected and transformed into paper.
Everything at Elephant PooPooPaper Park is safe to touch.
The guide explains the process of making paper from poop, and those who want to can participate in parts of the process.
Different types of fibers go into making the paper, like coconut shells and sugar cane.
After the fibers are boiled and cleaned, they are separated into a certain size and dyed.
Those who want can take the colored balls of elephant poo fiber and flatten them out to make paper.
After the paper is on the board, you carry it out to sit in the sun to dry. This is the whole process of turning elephant poo into usable paper.
DIY Crafting
At the end of the tour, you are free to create your own product, for a fee, at the DIY Crafting Studio.
Items include bookmarks, journals, wallets, notebooks, photo frames, fans, boxes, and passport holders.
You can choose the item, size, and color of each product. Then, you pick out pieces of cut-out paper shapes and letters to decorate with.
As we live in Australia, they could not guarantee that we would be able to get the elephant poo paper through customs. We decided that each kid would make 2 items for their cousins, and we would mail them to the US.
The 3 youngest cousins received journals, while the oldest cousin got a wallet, and Nana received a bookmark.
Art Studio
For a fee, you can get a canvas and a selection of paints and paint your own painting in the Artist Studio.
Shop
At the entrance, there is a shop filled with items made out of paper made from elephant poop.
If you do not want to make your own product, shop at their store at the end of your tour.
Cafe
For those who arrive early or want to stay for a drink or a snack after their tour, there is a cafe at Elephant PooPooPaper Park.
The cafe serves coffee, tea, fruit shakes, yoghurt lassi, juices, beer, and ice cream. They also serve meals including spaghetti carbonara, spaghetti with chicken, French fries, and crispy chicken.
There is a small playground by the cafe.
Book a Tour to Elephant PooPooPaper Park
We took a taxi, but if you prefer to take a tour, there are a couple of options. You can add on Sticky Falls, which we recommend.
Elephant PooPooPaper Park Wrap-Up
If you are looking for something fun to do in Chiang Mai, check out the Elephant PooPooPaper Park. The tour takes just about an hour.
Our tour was interesting and hands-on, and definitely kept the kids’ attention.
We would have been disappointed if we were unable to participate in the DIY experience. It’s probably best to know in advance if elephant poo paper can pass through customs in your country.
We toured Elephant PooPooPaper Park after spending a day with elephants at Happy Elephant Home. It was neat to see this sustainable practice.
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