Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage  – Sri Lanka Wildlife  department initiated the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage in 1975 and  situated  near the Kegalla  town. It is  24 acres in extent  and  it has the   recorded maximum number of elephants in captivity in the world.  This facility  attracts both local as well as foreign visitors. Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage  has become  one of the  biggest  orphanages in the world and  at present it is well known all over the world. Your visit to this orphanage will give you the opportunity to  enjoy the sight of  elephants interacting together.  Bathing hours of elephants  are from 10.00 a.m. to  2.00 p.m. daily and they  walk around 400 meters to the  lake Maha Oya for this purpose.  Subsequent to the bathing hours  feeding hour at the main center of the orphanage. Baby elephants are bottle fed. Tourists can  have a chance of bottle feeding milk to the baby elephants.