Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage was the first stop during our three-day trip. We hired the car with the driver, which is quite a good idea and also a popular way of travelling across Sri Lanka. The cost is not high and you can get wherever you want and stop when you want.
It took us about two hours to reach Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. The entrance fee for foreigners is 2500 rupees and only 250 rupees for Srilankan.
The Orphanage is not too big, but located in a beautiful place with picturesque landscapes all around.
In one place there were baby elephants, which were chained and because of that they could not move too much. Two of them tried to play or fight with each other which was quite entertaining especially for school children.
There was an opportunity to feed a big bottle of milk to a baby elephant for additional fee.
In another place there were big elephants with an amazing landscape in the background.
In the Orphanage there are also disabled elephants which lost their legs during the war as a result of land mines.
After leaving the Orphanage we crossed the road and went down the street to the river. On the way we stopped in a place in which a lady showed us how they make paper out of the elephant dung. They also make different kind of souvenirs, but I did not decide to buy anything.
At 10 a.m. the elephants are brought by their trainers to the river and finally they can enjoy bathing being watched by tourists.
I liked the Orphanage and it is definitely worth visiting. I am sure that people who work there do a great job and take care of animals, but seeing sad eyes of elephants made me kind of sad, too.
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