OPTIONAL ADD-ON: 1-WEEK PINNAWALA ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE TASTER

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OPTIONAL ADD-ON: 1-WEEK PINNAWALA ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE TASTER	SRI LANKA
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A CHANCE TO FULFIL A DREAM AND SPEND SOME TIME IN SRI LANKA'S MOST FAMOUS ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE TO SOAK UP THE MAGIC!

Add an unforgettable 1-Week Optional Extra to your main project. If you can't manage to do Pinnawala as a full project, you don't have to miss out altogether. We can arrange for you to spend 1 week working with these gentle giants - the daily highlight is the walk from the Orphanage down to the river to bathe the elephants. To see the herd frolicking and splashing in front of you is fantastic!

►SUMMARY FACTFILE
Start Dates	All year round - you choose your start and finish dates!
Duration	1 week
Requirements	No qualifications needed, just a love of elephants!
Price	£475 / US $760 Full Price List and other Currencies
What's included	►Accommodation ►Food ►Meeting you at the Airport ►Transfer to your accommodation ►Full pre-departure support ►Local in-country team support and backup ►24-hr emergency support.
What's not included	Flights, Insurance, Cost of Visas (if a visa is required, but we'll provide necessary documents and assistance).
Who can do this Project?	All our projects are open to all nationalities. Unless otherwise stated, you need to be aged between 17 and 70+

PROJECT OVERVIEW
The Elephant Orphanage is a sanctuary for rescued, injured or abused elephants and attracts visitors from all over the world to view these magnificent animals. Around 70 elephants have found homes at Pinnawala, including some small babies who have been born into the herd.

The Orphanage is reputedly one of the largest, if not the largest, centres of its kind in the world, with one of the most successful captive breeding programmes for Asian elephants.

Work Responsibilities:
Working hours are quite short and you certainly won't be overloaded with work, so you'll have plenty of time to sightsee and explore. Some elephants are overly large or have not been tamed or trained to a satisfactory level, whereby it is possible to safely have full hands-on contact.

The majority of volunteer work deals more with the day-to-day aspects of running the orphanage, rather than more specialised research or veterinary based work, although you will have the opportunity to do some hands-on work

Your main duties will be:

Mucking out the elephant enclosures in the morning (this is hard, muddy work!)
Participating in bathing some of the smaller elephants.
While the mahouts are bathing the larger elephants, you will be able to relax by the river, chat to the mahouts and watch the elephants play and interact with humans and each other. This is an absolutely beautiful sight and being around these serene animals in such a beautiful setting can have a very calming effect!

There may also be the opportunity to do other things around the orphanage, however this is subject the amount of work available at the orphanage at the time of your project. See the feedback page for more information about the kind of work you are likely to be taking part in!

Please click here to go to the main Pinawala project page for more information on the project, accommodation and travel.

‘I have been on the Pinawala placement twice now, once in 2004 for 1 month and in August this year for 18 days (both trips were with Travellers Worldwide). Both trips were fantastic and in fact myself and another 2 volunteers who were there this year are about to rebook for next July/August.’

Got any questions? Please email us:
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