Kuala Gandah Elephants with Deerland and Magical Fireflies Tour

• Visit Kuala Gandah Elephant Conservation Centre and learn about its rescue and rehabilitation work.
• Feed and interact with a herd of deer, plus peacocks, rabbits, and hedgehogs at Deerland Park.
• Enjoy an included dinner before a sunset boat cruise through mangrove forests.
• Watch thousands of fireflies light up the mangroves after dark on a guided river cruise.
• Roundtrip hotel transfer, air-conditioned vehicle, and English-speaking driver-guide included for the day.

• Admission to Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary
• Admission to Deerland Park
• Admission to fireflies boat cruise
• Dinner
• Roundtrip hotel transfer
• Air-conditioned vehicle
• English-speaking driver-guide

• Meals other than the included dinner
• Personal expenses
• Tips and gratuities
• Travel insurance

1. Be ready at your hotel lobby at the scheduled pickup time; the driver will contact you on arrival.
2. Your tour voucher will be sent via WhatsApp by the driver on the day of the tour.
3. Present the mobile voucher at the counter for entry.

The Kuala Gandah Elephants with Deerland and Magical Fireflies Tour packs a full day of wildlife encounters and a nighttime firefly cruise into one roughly 12 hour excursion from Kuala Lumpur into Lanchang, Pahang, where the sanctuary and park are both based.

Hotel pickup and the drive out

Your driver guide collects you from your Kuala Lumpur hotel in an air-conditioned vehicle for the drive out to Pahang, where the day's stops are spread across the morning, afternoon, and evening, ending well after dark, back at your Kuala Lumpur hotel.

Kuala Gandah Elephant Conservation Centre

The day begins at the Kuala Gandah Elephant Conservation Centre, a reserve dedicated to orphaned and rescued elephants. Here you get to see the elephants up close in their sanctuary setting, while your guide explains the rescue and rehabilitation efforts the centre carries out to give these elephants a safe home.

Deerland Park

Next is Deerland Park, home to a herd of deer that you can feed by hand, along with a smaller petting area where peacocks, rabbits, hedgehogs, and other small animals can be seen and fed at close range, making it an easy, hands on stop for the whole family.

Dinner and the magical fireflies cruise

As evening sets in, you sit down to an included dinner at a local restaurant before boarding a boat for a cruise through mangrove forests along the river. The cruise is timed for the mangroves' natural fireflies, which light up the trees along the riverbank once darkness falls in their thousands, a quiet and memorable close to the day.

Rayna Tours runs this tour on the ground with its own driver guides, so you have a point of contact for support throughout the long day, from the morning pickup to the drop-off after the evening cruise back in Kuala Lumpur.

• A minimum of two adults is required to book this tour.
• The tour is not wheelchair accessible.
• Pets are not permitted.
• Infant seats are not available in the vehicle.
• Hotel pickup is available for guests staying in the Kuala Lumpur City Centre area, close to the Petronas Twin Towers.
• If your hotel is outside Kuala Lumpur City Centre, take a taxi or Grab to Corus Hotel Kuala Lumpur and wait there for pickup.
• Be ready at your hotel lobby 10 minutes before the scheduled pickup time; the driver will contact you on arrival, or contact Rayna support using the contact details on your booking voucher if you can't find them.
• Downloading WhatsApp is recommended, as it is the primary channel used to share driver and tour details.
• This is a full day tour that continues after sunset for the fireflies cruise, so you'll return to your hotel later in the evening than on a typical day tour.