National Parks
Name Location Attractions Yala (Ruhuna) National Park 309 km. South of Colombo, Yala is approximately 1259 sq.km Yala comprises of scrubs, lagoons and rocky outcrops in the country’s south-east and is a particularly good place to see elephants. There are also leopards, bears, deer, crocodiles, wild boar, monkeys, buffalo and wild peacocks Bundala National Park 260 km from Colombo Sri Lanka’s best spot for bird watching. All species of water birds residence in the park and the migrant birds inhabit this park. Bundala is especially famous for its flocks of visiting Uda Walawe National Park Situated 170km. South east of Colombo. Large herds of Elephants and Deer species such as spotted Deer, Sambhur, Barking deer and Langur. Wild Boar, Water Buffalo and Jackals are some of the prominent wild animals found in this park along with a wide variety of other fauna. Wasgamuwa National ParK 200 km. away from Colombo The Wasgamuwa National Park lies within the polonnaruwa and Matale Districts and have the Mahaweli river and Amban river as its easern and western boundaries. Tropical intermediate dry mixed evergreen forest predominates this environment.