Volunteer at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage
An Amazing Elephant Experience at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage Sri Lanka! Our elephant volunteer project at Pinnawala elephant orphanage offers you truly, unique, cheap, hands-on elephant experience.
Your main duties will be help mahouts(elephant handlers) to clean the sheds, Mucking out the elephant enclosures, Help to prepare milk for bottle feeding. We assure that you won't be overloaded with work. You will have plenty of time to sightsee and explore.
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About Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage
An Amazing Elephant Experience at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage Sri Lanka! Our elephant volunteer project at Pinnawala elephant orphanage offers you truly, unique, cheap, hands-on elephant experience. It is amazing to work as a volunteer at this wonderful Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage Which has given home for over 80 (including baby elephants who have been born here) rescued,injured or abused wild elephants.
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage is an orphanage and breeding sanctuary for rescued,injured or abused wild elephants which is situated northwest of the town of Kegalle, Sri Lanka. It was established in 1975 by the Department of Wildlife Conservation on a 25-acre (10 ha) coconut plantation on the Maha Oya river. The orphanage was originally founded in order to afford care and protection to the many orphaned elephants found in the jungle. As of 2011, there are 84 elephants.The orphanage is very popular among local and foreign tourists. The main attraction is the opportunity to observe the bathing elephants from the broad river bank as the herd interacts socially, bathing and playing. The orphanage is open to the public daily, and all admission fees are used to look after the elephants. Visitors to the park can view many different aspects of the care and daily routine of the elephants, such as bottle feeding of elephant calves, feeding of all other elephants, and bathing.
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I spent 4 weeks at the Elephant Orphanage, and it was incredible! The people there were so friendly and welcoming.
The first week there I was very nervous. After a few days I got to know all the other volunteers and felt so much better. The staff who were helping us out went out of their way to make us feel at home. The home we stayed in was lovely, and we felt very safe there.
The orphanage itself was amazing! Being that close to them was such an honour (although the poo was smelly, you got used to it after a few days!).
We began early in the morning, cleaning out the sheds which took about 2 hours. Then we headed back to the house for a shower (believe me, a cold shower is just what the doctor orders after 2 hours of poo shovelling). Then we had lunch, and we had about an hour of free time (some of us napped, played a board game or read books). Then we went back to the orphanage just in time to see the elephants go down to the river. You had a choice of what to do while you were there. There was a small cafe you could get a beer or soft drink from, or if you wanted you could get into the river and help out washing the elephants. There were also loads of shops you could look at in the area. Then we headed into town for shopping or to use the internet cafe, then headed back to the house at your own leisure. We had dinner, then had more free time.
At the weekends, we organised trips to different sites around sri lanka (eg the beach, cultural triange, white water rafting) which was a really fantastic way to see more of the country.