Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage Photo by Trixie - Text by Siri
Twice a day, morning and evening, the elephants at Pinnawela get to have a two-hour long leisurely bath at the nearby river. There is very little in the way of food that the elephants can gather from the park. Every day massive amounts of vegetable matter, jak, coconut, kitul, tamarind, and grasses, are brought to the park from nearby woodlands. Each elephant gets about 175 pounds of food per day, with unlimited amount of water from the river.

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