have you stayed there, Anthony?
Yep - was there at the start of this year. Good, basic accommodation; great food served buffet style and you eat with other volunteers.
A typical day: breakfast, morning jobs (preparing fruit for ellies; picking up ellie poop etc.); wash (or just watch) elephants in the river; lunch; afternoon jobs (we were laying concrete); free time (tubing on the river, playing with dogs, hanging out with other vollies; playing soccer with the mahouts); dinner; organised activity (dvd, Thai culture and language lesson, presentation). We also helped out at a local school, emptied mudpits, had a bonfire night blah blah blah! I could rave about it non-stop.
The staff are awesome; there's free wifi to stay in touch with home; Thai massages on site if you enjoy extreme pain; and you're surrounded by elephants, dogs and likeminded people. The handlers use positive reinforcement with the elephants. There's no riding them or anything. They're not forced to perform, they just do their own thing during the day. I think(!) it's the most ethical way to see elephants in Thailand.
As you can tell ... I'd highly recommend it!!
thanks for sharing! 
