Full Day Excursion to Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage

General information

Destination	Duration
,	5 hours

Program details

Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage: Set amongst the verdant hills of Kegalle is a unique orphanage, where the tiny tots weigh 60 kg or more. This is the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage, the world's first and only elephant orphanage established to feed, nurse and house young elephants lost or abandoned by their mothers. Other occupants are elephants displaced from their natural environs by development projects or those found wounded. Visitors could see the baby elephants being fed milk from gigantic feeding bottles or bathed in the river which flows nearby - an unforgettable sight! Established in 1975, by the Wildlife Department and National Zoological gardens which subsequently led to a breeding programme through which more than twenty five elephants have been born since 1984.

0930 hrs Depart Colombo for Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage

1200 hrs
Arrive at Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage

1200 - 1330 hrs
Observe feeding of baby elephants at the Orphanage

1330 hrs
Proceed to Pinnalanda Restaurant / Elephant Bay Restaurant (Walking: 50 metres)

1345 - 1600 hrs
Lunch at Pinnalanda Restaurant / Elephant Bay Restaurant and observe bathing of elephants at the river. (We will reserve tables with a view to watch the elephant bathing)

1615 hrs
Departure to Colombo

1900 hrs
Arrival at Colombo Port