Sinharaja Rainforest
Sinharaja is designated as both a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a Biosphere Reserve. Its dense interior shelters endemic wildlife, including over 50% of Sri Lanka’s endemic bird species, making it one of Asia’s premier birdwatching destinations, as well as rare amphibians, reptiles, purple-faced langurs and leopards. A guided walk through Sinharaja forest, alive with […]
Yala National Park
Yala National Park is one of the best places to observe wild leopards in their natural habitat. Block 1, the most accessible section of the park, encompasses a varied landscape of open scrub jungle, coastal lagoons, rock outcrops and freshwater pools that support wildlife, including elephants, sloth bears, crocodiles and over 200 bird species. A […]
Minneriya
Minneriya National Park is famous for hosting one of nature’s most spectacular wildlife events, “The Gathering”, an annual congregation of wild elephants around the ancient Minneriya reservoir as water levels recede during the dry season between July and October. The park’s open, grassy tank margins offer exceptional wildlife viewing conditions, and sightings of large elephant […]
Udawalawe
Udawalawe National Park is Sri Lanka’s most reliably productive elephant-watching destination, home to several hundred wild elephants that roam the park’s open grasslands and reservoir shores in large, easily observed herds. The park also hosts the well-known Elephant Transit Home nearby. Unlike other parks where elephant sightings can be seasonal, Udawalawe offers outstanding elephant encounters […]
Wilpattu
Wilpattu is Sri Lanka’s largest national park and one of its most hauntingly beautiful, a wilderness of natural lake basins known as villus, dry deciduous forest, and open plains that create one of the finest leopard habitats on the island, near where the legend of Prince Vijaya first set foot long ago. Its remoteness and […]