ATV Big Buddha Phuket Viewpoint

This was very fun. The guide is attentive to your safety. One of our members had zero experience and was able to keep up with the guide’s hand signals and directions. You can expect to get a pick up truck ride up to the ATV course. Then do some ATV, you will stop for some photos. Then, you will park your ATV and get into another pick up truck to get to the Big Buddha site, which is currently closed due to a landslide). The guide warned us about the monkeys. I watched a monkey with a baby take an apple off a table. This is kind of sad that they are so displaced. But they did not seem violent. The view is just breathtaking and beautiful near the Big Buddha site. However, I should say that the ride in the pick up to see the Big Buddha site is very sad. You will see elephants chained up. You will see a very thin and frail elephant logging. You will see baby elephants chained up. There are baskets of fruit that you can buy for 300 THb to feed the elephants. It’s very sad to see the animals. I don’t t think this tour service has anything to do with the elephants, but you will have to drive through this to see the Big Buddha from this route. It does take away from some of the good feelings. After this, you will return to ATV riding. Then do a giant swing. Fun, and very safe. But the sadness of the elephants still linger.

Not recommended.very rude and impolite staff.waste of money.once u reach there they just want to finish and push u out.

We had to make our own way to a hotel in Pa Tong as this was the only pick up option and our hotel was in Karon. We had to do this at 8:15 in the morning. Pick up was on time and it was a large Tuktuk type vehicle. We were in the back for a short journey to another hotel and met up with another vehicle. On route to the location I noticed the road looked familiar and we were in fact driving past our hotel -.- which seemed like a waste of journey to us. Check in procedure was quick and was given a wrist band and told to wait in an area with lockers. We were quickly fitted with a harness and after a short while loaded into a tutkuk to the zipline jungle area. You start with a small zipline but then get increasingly higher and longer. It was a lot of fun and not scary as they secure you well. You can take small cross body bags with you and I saw someone had a small backpack. After finishing the ziplines we crossed the road (literally) to begin on the quad bikes. After being in a group it was nice to have just us with the leader and meant we could go at our own pace as we had previously driving quadbikes before and was very comfortable. The roads are used by others and you do have to be careful when coming round corners and over taking. The roads are also used by elephants which are forced to carry tourists as a means of entertainment. It's horrible to see the elephants chained up. Please don't ride elephants. It's cruel. There are sanctuaries out there where you can meet and feed elephants. It's so much nicer to see them roam free. We were taken to a big swing on the edge of a cliff which was fun. Big Buddha wasn't open but we already knew this. Was saw it from a viewpoint. At the end we were dropped back into PaTong beach area. Overall good experience.