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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage, Sri Lanka
The Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage was started in 1975 by Department of Wildlife to house abandoned and wounded elephants. In most cases the mother had either died or been killed. In some instances the baby had fallen into a pit or stepped onto a landmine. Currently the total number of elephants has increased to 85 in this orphanage. There's a shop here thats sells paper using elephants dung. There are only a few elephant orphanages in the world. Pinnawela has now become one of the bigger orphanages and is quite well known world wide.  The best time to visit is the feeding time from 0930-1000hrs and 1330-1400hrs and the bathing time is from 1000-1030hrs and 1400-1430hrs when all the elephants are taken to the river Maha Oya thats close by. Here in Pinnawela there's an elephant named Sama who stepped on a landmine and blew her right frotfoot away. Since then she is walking on three legs.
++ quoth nessie at 1:06 AM
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