Wildlife of Sri Lanka: Whales to Leopards
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Overview
Highlights
- Experience Leopard Trails in Wilpattu
- Visit Pakrama Samudraya
- Visit to Minneriya Natonal Park
- Enjoy game drive in Horton Plains
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- Accommodations as listed, including all service charges and taxes
- Mineral water and soft drinks during drives and group meals
- Transfers and sightseeing in airLconditioned coaches
- All excursions with expert EnglishLspeaking guides.
- Entrance fees to museums, temples, etc.
- All meals as indicated with B-breakfast, L-lunch, D-dinner
- Additional luxury services
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Itinerary
Meals: Dinner
Accommodation: Horathapola Bungalow – Standard Room
Upon arrival at the Bandaranaike International Airport you will be greeted with ”Ayubowan,” and assisted by our Airport Representative through passport control, customs, baggage collection...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Leopard Trails – Classic Tent
After breakfast, you have a short 2 ½Lhour drive to Leopard Trails, located in the buffer zone of Wilpattu National Park.
Wilpattu is Sri Lanka’s largest national park...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Leopard Trails – Classic Tent
This morning we have a very early start. Tea, coffee and biscuits can be found in the Rendezvous at the common area of the camp at 5 AM. Then you head off to explore the Wil...
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Jetwing Vil Uyana – Paddy Dwelling
Rising early again, you have final game drive, and then enjoy and a leisurely breakfast, before driving to the North Central province of Sri Lanka.Your destination is Vil Uyana, an ecoLb...
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Jetwing Vil Uyana – Paddy Dwelling
With a packed breakfast in tow, you head out about 7AM for Polonnaruwa. Passing the ancient citadel and quadrangle of Polonnaruwa, you find yourself on the shores of the Parakrama Samud...
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Jetwing Vil Uyana – Paddy Dwelling
This morning, you experience another specialty of the area and set off for about 1 ½ hours on a bird trail with a naturalist of the hotel. Your path leads outside the hotel along a trail...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Jetwing Warwick Gardens – Deluxe Room
When you are finished breakfast, packed lunch in tow, you drive down to the Buddhist capital of Sri Lanka, Kandym to take a train ride to Ambewela (1110/1515). Your d...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Jet wing Warwick Gardens – Deluxe Room
Today is filled with adventure and exploration. We drive towards Ohiya and enter the Horton Plains National Park to do a full day game drive with your guide and a tr...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Rainforest Ecolodge B Chalet
Your route heads south this morning to Sinharaja, Sri Lanka’s infamous rainforest, where, in a land before time, lions roamed the vast jungle. Although long extinct, rhinos and hippos...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Rainforest Ecolodge B Chalet
Leaving the hotel about 8AM with a picnic lunch, you will spend a full day exploring the rainforest. The physical walk is not long, about 3 hours, but there is much to see and discu...
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Sri Sharavi Villa – Palm Double
Today you journey on to the Southern coastal belt of Sri Lanka and check in at the Sri Sharavi Villas. Sri Sharavi Beach Villas & Spa is the brainchild of Sharlyn Stafford and Ravini Pe...
Accommodation: Si Sharavi Villa – Palm Double
Meals: Breakfast
Today you have an early breakfast and drive to Weligama where you board your boat and set off on a private whale watching excursion. Just off the coast of Sri Lanka swims the majestic blue wh...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodation: Villa Bentota – Executive Suite
We spent the morning at leisure at Sri Sharavi and the before lunch drive to Bentota to check in at your final pit stop, the charismatic Villa Bentota. At around 4.30 PM we drive ...
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Villa Bentota – Executive Suite
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- Meals where not indicated with a B,L,D
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