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Elephant Transit Home, Udawalawe National Park

Visit to the Elephant Transit Home
Elephant Transit Home, Udawalawe National Park

Twenty minutes' drive away from the Udawalawe National Park is the ‘Elephant Transit Home’, associated with the Born Free Foundation (UK). Here, orphaned or sick elephants are fed and cared for until they are strong enough to be returned to the wild.

The center allows you to visit at the feeding times of 10.30am, 2.30pm, and 6.30pm. From behind a barrier you can watch the elephants ambling along behind a keeper, into the compound where they will be fed milk through plastic hoses with funnels attached, some stamping and trumpeting with impatience.

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Photos of Visit to the Elephant Transit Home

  • Mother and baby elephants in the wild
    Mother and baby elephants in the wild
  • Elephant Transit Home, Uda Walawe
    Elephant Transit Home, Uda Walawe
  • Elephant Transit Home, Uda Walawe
    Elephant Transit Home, Uda Walawe
  • Feeding time at the Elephant Transit Home, Uda Walawe
    Feeding time at the Elephant Transit Home, Uda Walawe

Experience it for yourself

You can enjoy this activity as part of the suggested tours below, or we can weave it into a trip shaped entirely around you.