Sri Lanka is the only country providing a safe retreat for young orphaned elephants. Pinnawela elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka is one of the two such sanctuaries in Sri-Lanka tending and caring for the domestic baby elephants and this has now become quite well known worldwide.Pinnawela elephant Orphanage is the home for about 60 elephants, out of which many are baby elephants found, abandoned or orphaned in the wild. They are being taken care, fed and trained by the wild life authorities. The best time to visit is during the feeding times, when one will have the opportunity of seeing the baby elephants being bottle-fed.Pinnawela elephant orphanage is located northwest of the town Kegalla, 77 Kms from capital Colombo and about 13 Km. from Kegalle Town on the Kegalle- Rambukkana Road.. It was started in 1975 by the Sri Lanka Wildlife department. These 24 acres large elephant orphanage is also a breeding place for elephants, 68 elephants were born since 1984, and it has the greatest herd of elephants in captivity in the world.The orphanage was primarily designed to afford care and protection to the many baby elephants found in the jungle without their mothers. In most of these cases the mother had been either killed or dead. In some instances the baby had fallen into a pit and in others the mother had fallen in and died.