Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage

@🇱🇰 Sri Lanka, Pinnawala Pinnavira Elephant Orphanage Elephant Orphanage was built in 1975 and is one of the world's largest elephant rescue centers, mainly adopting homeless, falling into deep pits or traps, out of elephant groups, especially seriously injured young elephants. To the east is the main park of elephant life, you can see how the baby elephant eats; to the west, Ma Oya River is a place where the elephant baths daily. The elephant baths 🛁 twice a day (10~12 and &14～16). The elephant team set off in a vast manner and took a bath on the river beach in the west. Paper products made like manure are the national rituals of Sri Lanka.

Kenya is the first elephant orphanage in the world, and there are only two in the world. Dozens of elephants gather to take a bath is spectacular. It is also a business, seeing the scene of paying elephants to lie in the water and play

The park is divided into two parts, part of the area where elephants live, you can buy a basket of fruit to feed the elephants, it is fun. The other part is by a river, you can watch a group of elephants take a bath. They walk around leisurely, sometimes spraying water on themselves.

Sri Lanka, with about 3,500 wild elephants, is the second-largest country in the world. Traveling to Sri Lanka, visiting Pinawara Elephant Orphanage, and getting close contact with elephants is a must-do task. In 1975, Sri Lanka built the world's first elephant orphanage in Pinawara, nearly 90 kilometers from the capital, Colombo, adopting orphans who lost their elephant herds for various reasons, and the existing elephants have nearly 100, becoming a famous tourist attraction. The entire scenic spot is separated by the highway into two areas, there are 3 points: bathing in the river. At 2 hours every day at noon, the elephants came to the Ma Oya River on the west side, accompanied by the clear water in the river, the sky water sprayed by the nursery, and the free bathing and frolicking. The shed performed. The main courtyard area on the east side of more than 50,000 square meters, with a 300 square meters greenhouse in the center, regularly holding feeding elephants and elephant fighting performances (300 Sri Lankan rupees/about RMB9.4, you can feed the elephants at close range once). The cute look and the burly figure are huge and full of charm. Walking in the area. Most areas of the main courtyard area are elephant living areas. Looking at the crowds of elephants strolling leisurely in the sand and in the forest, they can't help but sigh: the world is so beautiful.

The Elephant Orphanage was built by the Sri Lankan Wildlife Bureau in 1975. It mainly adopts young elephants who are homeless, fall into deep pits or traps, and leave elephants, especially those who are seriously injured or suffering from diseases. Not only elephants, roadside chameleons and monkeys are at zero distance from us. There are many similar things in Southeast Asia. I have been to many places. It should be said that the elephant happiness index here is very high.