Sinharaja Rainforest
Sri Lanka’s most precious ecological asset – the island’s last viable tract of primary tropical rainforest, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and one of the most biodiverse patches of forest on the planet, where over 60 percent of tree species are endemic and guided treks reveal a world of extraordinary complexity that includes the Sri […]
Wasgamuwa National Park
One of Sri Lanka’s least-visited but most rewarding national parks – a remote, forested sanctuary in the central province that supports a significant elephant population, healthy numbers of leopards, and an extraordinary diversity of resident and migratory birdlife in a landscape of great natural beauty and very low tourist traffic. Wasgamuwa’s remoteness is its greatest […]
Minneriya National Park
Home to one of the greatest wildlife spectacles on earth – the Elephant Gathering, when hundreds of wild Asian elephants converge on the ancient Minneriya Tank during the dry season in a display of scale, social behaviour, and raw natural energy that has been ranked among the top wildlife events on the planet. Even outside […]
Wilpattu National Park
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. […]
Yala National Park
Sri Lanka’s most celebrated national park and one of the world’s premier leopard destinations – a vast landscape of scrub jungle, rocky outcrops, coastal lagoons, and open grassland that supports the world’s highest density of leopards per square kilometre alongside elephants, sloth bears, crocodiles, and over 200 bird species. A morning safari in Yala is […]