Five elephants were released from the custody of the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage temporarily to get them to participate in the Annual Kandy Esala Perahera. The Court had ordered the Pinnawala Orphanage management to release five elephants temporarily for the use of the forthcoming Kandy Esala Perahera on a bond worth Rs. 10 million . Picture shows the elephants being taken to Kandy. Picture by Oswald Godakumbura