Your wildlife tour in Sri Lanka

If you are interested in wildlife you will be in good company with Sri Lanka Tailored Tours! Although this is not a huge island, wildlife is plentiful. You will be able to see everything from Elephants and Leopards to Turtles a diverse range of birds. (All of the photographs on the right of this page were taken by our customers).

 

 

There are many National Parks such as:

Yala National Park: Yala National Park covers nearly 500 sq miles is the biggest National Park in Srilanka. The Park is located in the southeast of the island about 200 miles from Colombo . The park is divided into Yala West and Yala East. Apart from elephants, sloth bear, many deer (mouse, barking, spotted etc.), monkeys, mongoose and crocodiles, and a wide range of birds, Yala West National Park is probably one of the best places in the world to see and photograph leopards (there are about 35 leopards in the park).

Uda Walawe National Park: is about 105 miles southeast of Colombo and covers about 118 sq miles. The Uda Walawe National Park is near Ratnapura (famous for its Gems!) In this National Park you will see elephants (probaly one of the best places to see them in the wild), water buffalo, crocodile, spotted deer, mongoose, foxes,water monitor lizards, bandicoots, wild boar, monkeys, and even leopards.



Horton Plains National Park: Covering about 12 sq miles, The Horton Plains National Park is situated some 100 milesy from Colombo, in the Nuwara Eliya district. The park , and is a mixture of highland forest and wet grasslandand (you can visit 'World's End' where the southern part of the plains comes to a sudden end and drops almost straight down for 700 m!). Here, can see Leopard, Deer and many birds.

You will, of course, see wildlife on any tour you may book but we would be more than happy to arrange a specific wildlife tour for you.