Sinharaja Rainforest
Sinharaja is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a Reserve of ecological importance and immense natural beauty. The forest shelters an incomprehensible density of endemic species: 95% of Sri Lanka’s endemic birds can be found here, along with hundreds of endemic plants, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians and mammals, many of which exist nowhere else on earth. […]
Yala National Park
Yala National Park is a rugged, dramatic landscape of ancient rocky outcrops, dense scrub jungle, open lagoons and coastal wilderness that shelters an extraordinary concentration of wildlife within its protected boundaries. Block 1, the most visited section of the park, regularly rewards patient safari-goers with sightings of leopards resting on boulders, elephants at waterholes, sloth […]
Minneriya
Minneriya National Park is famous throughout the wildlife world for an annual spectacle known as ‘The Gathering’, believed to be the largest congregation of Asian elephants on earth, where several hundred elephants converge on the shores of the Minneriya Tank between June and October as the surrounding jungle dries and the reservoir becomes the primary […]
Udawalawe
Udawalawe National Park is the single best place on the island to observe Asian elephants in large numbers and close proximity in their natural habitat, with herds of sometimes sixty or more animals gathering at the park’s vast reservoir in the dry season. The park’s open savannah landscape offers exceptional wildlife visibility, with elephants, water […]
Wilpattu
Wilpattu is Sri Lanka’s largest national park and arguably its most atmospheric, a vast wilderness of dense dry-zone jungle, scrubland, and the distinctive natural lakes called ‘villus’ that define its landscape and reliably attract wildlife to its shores. The park is regarded as one of the finest places in Sri Lanka to spot the elusive […]