Sri Lankan Elephant Orphanage Baby Elephants. Watch The Trunks. It’s All About The Elephant’s Trunk.

Описание: We were on a 30 day cruise from Cape Town to Singapore. And we stopped in Colombo Sri Lanka to visit the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. It was so great. The Elephants play in a large open river area. They love the water. We were able to get really close and just sit and watch all the elephants.

There were so many of them. And the babies were so cute. It’s amazing what we saw. We saw them lay under water and use their trunks as snorkels. We saw them appear to talk to each other with their trunks. We saw them swing their trunks and we saw them shoot water over themselves.

Then they walked over to a dry savanna area where they munched on leaves and we saw them interact and rather than shooting water over their backs with their trunks, they shot dirt over their backs. It was quite an experience.

Oh, and we learned so much.
Did you know that an elephant’s trunk has 40,000 muscles? Trunks are used for breathing, smelling, eating, drinking, grasping objects, calls, communicating by touch and much more..

Did you know that the African elephants we saw in South Africa are different than the Asian elephants we saw in Sri Lanka?

The African elephants have bigger ears, two ‘fingers’ on its trunk, versus 1 ‘finger’, Tusks, while the Asian elephants only sometimes have tusks

Elephants are very social and live in matriarchal societies. They are really interesting.

Anyway, we got a brief chance to see life in Sri Lanka as we drove from the ship to the orphanage and back to the ship.

Sri Lanka was our last of the originally planned stops on the cruise. Up to Sri Lanka the cruise was awesome. We were on the Oceania Nautica and they took care of us wonderfully. But then they had to cancel our destination in Singapore and change it to Dubai. We missed stops in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. Not their fault. And they were wonderful. But we had more plans (After the cruise) to go diving in Lembeh, Indonesia for 10 days, (My favorite spot in the world) and then to go on to Cambodia to see Angkor Wat.
Instead our cruise stopped in Muscat, Oman and ended in Dubai where we had to fly straight home. Actually it was a good thing we flew home because things with the virus got really crazy about 5 days after we got home on March 5.
So, as much as we hated cutting our trip of a lifetime short, it was a wise, if not completely enjoyable solution. So we had a wonderful time in South Africa and a great cruise.