Sinharaja Rainforest
Sinharaja Forest Reserve is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of outstanding global importance. The forest is a biodiversity hotspot of the highest order, home to a proportion of Sri Lanka’s endemic species of mammals, reptiles, butterflies and birds, including several endemic bird species that travel in mixed-species feeding flocks through the forest understorey.
Yala National Park
Yala is Sri Lanka’s most famous and most visited wildlife reserve, a diverse ecosystem of dry zone forests, scrublands, wetlands and coastal dunes in the southeast of the island. Yala has the highest leopard density of any protected area in the world, and sightings of these magnificent cats, lounging in trees, hunting across open plains, […]
Minneriya
Minneriya National Park is home to one of the most spectacular wildlife events in Asia: The Gathering, a seasonal congregation of hundreds of Asian elephants that assemble around the Minneriya Tank as the surrounding grasslands dry out between July and October. At its peak, more than 300 elephants can be observed at once, an awe-inspiring […]
Udawalawe
Udawalawe National Park is Sri Lanka’s premier elephant destination, a wide, open landscape of grasslands and scrub forest surrounding the Udawalawe Reservoir, where large herds of elephants are sighted throughout the year. The park is also home to the Elephant Transit Home, a rehabilitation centre where orphaned baby elephants are cared for before being released […]
Wilpattu
Wilpattu is Sri Lanka’s largest national park and one of the oldest protected areas in the world, a vast, remote wilderness of ancient lake beds, known as villus, dense scrub jungle and open grasslands in the northwest of the island. The park is renowned for its population of Sri Lankan leopards, which are sighted in […]