Ticket Price
Ticket: 65 yuan; ropeway: 50-70 yuan one way.
Wild Elephant Valley is located in Meng Yangzi Nature Reserve and UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve of Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve, 22 kilometers away from Jinghong City. It is China's first national park themed on animal protection and environmental conservation.
Entertainment Programs
The Wild Elephant Valley has elevated corridors, big tree hotels and forest bars. Visitors can walk around and watch wild elephants. In the Wild Elephant Valley, tourists can watch the trained elephant show during the day and improve the recovery to see the wild elephants coming out to feed in the forest. Some recycling is too dark to see the wild elephants strutting along the elevated corridors.
Wild Elephant Valley has 16 domesticated elephants and is China's first elephant training school. The elephants bow to visitors as a sign of welcome, do headstands, dance to music, walk across wooden bridges and perform "kicks" with their trunks, among other things. Visitors may also wish to take pictures with the elephants by riding on their backs or sitting on their trunks. If you're brave enough, you can lie on the ground and let the elephants massage you with their feet.
Besides these, you can also see various kinds of snakes in the Snake Park, taste the "dragon and phoenix soup" made with snakes and black-boned chicken, or go to the Butterfly Breeding Garden to see colorful butterflies. You can also see many rare plants here.
Transportation: Take a bus bound for Guanping at the Jinghong Bus Station and ask the driver to stop at the Sanjiao River Wild Elephant Valley. The fare is 15 yuan. From Simao, you can take a bus to Jinghong and Mengla. Tell the driver to stop at the back door of Wild Elephant Valley and go in from there. You can walk less.