Kitulgala
Sri Lanka’s undisputed white water rafting capital – the Kelani Ganga runs Grade 3 – 4 rapids through a rainforest gorge that scholars of cinema history will recognise as the principal setting for David Lean’s 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai (the original railway bridge supports are still visible in the river). Approximately […]
Knuckles Mountain Range
A UNESCO-recognised Biosphere Reserve unlike anywhere else in Sri Lanka, the Knuckles Mountain Range is a landscape of cloud forests, hidden waterfalls, mountain streams and dramatic escarpments stretching across the island’s central highlands. Trails wind through remote villages, tea plantations and endemic rainforest where purple-faced langurs, giant squirrels and countless bird species thrive. Whether it’s […]
Minneriya National Park
As the dry season reduces the Minneriya reservoir, hundreds of wild Asian elephants converge on the exposed lake bed and reservoir shores in a wildlife spectacle that is widely described as the largest single wild elephant congregation on earth. At its peak between July and October, herds can number several hundred animals in a single […]
Udawalawe National Park
The most reliably productive wildlife park in Sri Lanka for elephant encounters – large wild herds move through open grassland and along the reservoir edges in plain sight throughout the day, with none of the dense scrub that makes Yala’s encounters a game of patience and tracking. The morning golden hour at the reservoir is […]
Yala National Park
Block 1 has the world’s highest recorded density of wild leopards per square kilometre, a fact that transforms the safari experience entirely when combined with a private jeep and a dedicated naturalist who knows individual leopard territories by name. The coastal scrub, lagoons and rock formations create a layered ecosystem supporting wild elephants, sloth bears, […]