Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage

  Hotels Kegalle Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage is an orphanage and breeding ground for wild elephants is located in the town of Sri Lanka. By the Department of Wildlife Conservation, the 25-acre (10 ha) coconut plantation on the Maha Oya river in 1975, has been established. Management and protection that can not afford a lot of orphan elephants in the jungles of original Goahwonneun was established. 2008, there were 84 elephants.

The aim of the orphanage is to simulate the natural world. However, there are some exceptions: feed (feed) in the river by the mahouts and volunteers twice daily bathing elephants, age less than 3 years of all the baby move, still bottle. Buckskin days, rice bran, corn, around 76kg (170 pounds) of (4.4 pounds) approx 2kg each animal in the food bag. Twice a day, they are on the river, you can be able to access the water.

This elephant orphanage is the place of the breeding of elephants. Of more than the largest herd of captive elephants in the world since 1984 and was born twenty-three elephant orphanage, elephant, has become the most healthy, but one of them is blind, Samara, from the mines in front of her right leg was lost.

Orphanage among local and foreign tourists are very popular. A bunch of swim and play, and social interaction can be observed in a wide range of the elephants bathing in the river bank to the main attractions will be an opportunity.

The orphanage is open to the public daily, all entrance fees will be used to take care of the elephant park visitors, such as the treatment of many different aspects of the food and all of the other elephants elephants, elephant calf bottle feeding,,, bath daily can Costs for foreign adults: 2,000 LKR

Pinnawala, the Colombo-Kandy (90km) from Colombo road Rambukkana is about 3km away from the junction. Rambukkana from Colombo or Kandy by bus from Kegalle village Travelers can ride the bus.