Sri Lanka’s largest and, in the opinion of many wildlife enthusiasts, most beautiful national park – an ancient landscape of dry zone forest and the natural lake basins called villus that provide exceptional wildlife habitat and support a healthy, visible leopard population in conditions of genuine wildness that Yala’s heavier visitor traffic cannot always match. Wilpattu rewards the traveller who values depth of encounter over volume of sightings – quieter, more spacious, and offering a quality of wilderness experience that the more accessible parks cannot replicate.