The Udawalawa National Park is located approximately 200km southwest of Colombo. It’s major eco-tourism destination in Sri Lanka .The 30821-hectare dry zone game park has as annual rainfall 1524 mm and an average temperature of 29.4co. It’s most famous for the many elephant that live there .In additional to this main attraction, the park is home to many water buffalo, water monitor lizard, Samba deer, elephant, monkeys and the occasional leopard, as well as being an exciting location for bird enthusiasts.
Thought watching Elephants and other wildlife animals doing their natural actions was hard? This hardship has come to an ease because of this enormous yet flawless park. From birds to Mammals, Udawalawe park has it all and in a large quantity too. All the animals are given good amount of space so that they can do whatever they want to, like they naturally do.
It obviously starts from elephants, UDAWALAWE is known for its elephants which are in a huge quantity, about 400. There are herds of them, bathing and playing and are given huge space for them to do whatever they like. There are beautiful peacocks all roaming around and dancing. It has its own safari resort and a jeep will be provided to the visitors so that they can roam around in the park with ease and can witness the animals easily as well.
It has amazing places to camp, there are a number of rivers that make it look very much appealing in terms of camping. It is a good place if one is looking for some adventure and a long lasting experience.