Pinnawala...the Elephant Orphanage

At Pinnawala we stopped to see the elephants. When we were on our way in we saw a guy that had porcupines along the side of the road. He made money by allowing people to take pictures of them.


When we got to the Orphanage we were just in time to see the feeding of the elephants. The baby elephant was so cute. He was missing an ear though. This was the first time that I had seen an elephant close up. I was amazed at how fleshy they are. When you see pictures of them they seem so tough and hard but they aren't.




The elephants that are feeding are young and they still get bottles of milk to drink.




This is me with the elephants. Their ears are really soft. They reminded me of birds when they were all together in a group because their ears are constantly flapping like birds wings. They flap to cool themselves and to keep the bugs off.

This is Jackie with a couple elephants.


This was the biggest elephant that I saw that day. It was old and blind. The guys guided it by yelling commands to it.

After seeing the elephants being fed we went to feed ourselves. We went for lunch at a restaurant along the river where we could watch the elephants bath.

Rebecca and Micah at the entrance to the restaurant.

The elephants were walked from the orphanage down the road to the river were they bathed.





This was the view from our table where we had lunch. It was an excellent view of the elephants. It was fun to watch them play in the water. And incase you are wondering ...
elephant poop floats...wouldn't want to be down stream from this place!!!