In this episode, Paul heads south near the beaches of Hua Hin to the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, the country's biggest wildlife hospital. Looking after any animal in need, the WFFT is sanctuary to 24 elephants mostly rescued from ‘entertainment camps', where they performed in circuses, or work tirelessly in trekking camps taking holidaymakers for a ride.

In this opening episode, Paul first travels to the jungle surrounding Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, an area home to over half the country's 3,500 domesticated elephants - it's also home to Thailand's largest elephant sanctuary in the form of the Elephant Nature Park run by world-renowned conservationist Lek Chailert, who has rescued hundreds of elephants from a hard life's graft in the logging and tourism industries.