Royal White Elephant: Prime Minister visits Royal White Elephant Hall

A royal white elephant Rattha Nandaka, born at 6:30 am on the 23rd of July 2022 by the 33-year-old female elephant called Zar Nan Hla from the Myanma Timber Enterprise in Taungup Township of Rakhine State has turned 4 months old today.

Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and wife, together with the Secretary and members of the SAC, and senior military officers, visited the Royal White Elephant Hall in the compound of UppataSandhi Pagoda in Nay Pyi Taw on Wednesday.

The Prime Minister and wife fed the royal white elephants including Rattha Nandaka (the Country’s beloved Royal White Elephant, bringing peace and prosperity to the nation), his mother Zar Nan Hla and other companion elephants. The Prime Minister asked about the health and physical fitness conditions of Rattha Nandaka, and provided cash assistance for feeding nutrition to the royal white elephants.

Rattha Nandaka was two feet and five inches in height, three feet and one inch in girth and weighed 180 pounds at birth. He has pearl-coloured eyes, a plantain branch-shaped back, white hair, a distinctive tail, auspicious plot signs on the skin, reddish-brown or pinkish skin, five claws on the front legs, four claws on the back legs and big ears.

These features conform to seven out of eight characteristics of white elephant. He is now 2 feet and 11 inches in height, 4 feet and 5 inches in girth and weighs about 288 pounds. He is living healthy and happy with his mother at Royal White Elephant Hall in the compound of Uppata Sandhi Pagoda in Nay Pyi Taw.