Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka This is a unique place
for visitors as this may be the only place on the planet that
one can see such a large herd of captive elephants from weeks
old to parents to grand parents old more than 50 years.
Pinnawala Elephant Orphange, the conservativation breeding
center run by the National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka was
established in 1975. All these lelphants were brought to the
orphange at a very young age due to various reasons like death
of the mother or because of the separatist war in the north-
east. There daily rituals begin at 7am in the mornings after
they are fed and given milk they are taken to the river ‘Ma Oya’
the largest river in Sri Lanka in terms of volume of water it
carries. Here they drink bathe and are brushed in the shallow
pools of this flat rocky river. There are nearly 90 elephants in
the orphange presently. Sama, a 22 years old lost her leg due to
a mine blast during the separatist war, tugs along the herd to
make it to the river and one c