Wildlife · Pinnawala · Western

A Herd Walks to the River

Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage — On the edge of Pinnawala village

BATH AT MAHA OYAPhoto by Mahesh Herath on Unsplash7.3009° N, 80.3884° E

The twice-daily river bath is one of the few places where you can watch a large group of elephants behaving as a herd at close range.

A government-run facility established in 1975 to care for orphaned and injured wild elephants, on a 25-acre coconut estate inland from Colombo. The herd is walked from the enclosure to the Maha Oya river twice daily for bathing, around 10 am and 2 pm.

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