Sri Lanka: Bathing an elephant in the Kalu Ganga river with the Gangatilaka Vihara (temple) in the background, Kalutara

The Asian or Asiatic Elephant (Elephas maximus) is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed throughout the Subcontinent and Southeast Asia from India in the west to Borneo in the east. Asian elephants are the largest living land animal in Asia.

The Sri Lankan Elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian Elephant, and native to Sri Lanka. There are around 6,000 wild elephants living in Sri Lanka.

The Gangatilaka Vihara, built in the 1960s, is a huge hollow dagoba next to the Kalu Ganga river.

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Rainer Krack

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