Sights in Udawalawe National Park

1. Uda Walawe National Park

   • Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka
   • Sights › Outdoors

   With herds of elephants, wild buffalo, sambar deer and leopards, Uda Walawe is the Sri Lankan national park that best rivals the savannah reserves of Africa. The park’s 30,821 hectares centre on the large Uda Walawe Reservoir, fed by the Walawe Ganga.

   The entrance to the park is 12km from the Ratnapura–Hambantota road turn-off and 21km from Embilipitiya. Visitors buy tickets in a new building a further 2km on. Most people take a tour organised by their guest house or hotel, but a trip with one of the 4WDs waiting outside the gate should be around Rs 3000 for a half-day for up to eight people with driver. Last tickets are usually sold at 5pm.

   Apart from stands of teak…

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2. Elephant Transit Home

   • Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka
   • Sights › Other

   The Elephant Transit Home helps to care for injured elephants from all over Sri Lanka. It's on the main road about 5km west of the Uda Walawe National Park entrance. Supported by the Born Free Foundation, the complex is a halfway house for orphaned elephants. After rehabilitation, the elephants are released back into the wild, many into the Uda Walawe National Park. At the time of research 64 elephants had been rehabilitated at the Elephant Transit Home and subsequently released. A boisterous group of around 30 juvenile and teenage pachyderms gets fed four times a day. You can’t get up close and personal with the elephants, but feeding time is still a lot of fun, and the…

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