Private Half Day Tour: Udawalawe National Park with Elephant Transit Home Visit
Description
Take a tour of Udawalawe National Park with Elephant transit home visit, one of Sri Lanka's largest animal sanctuaries. Because this is a private tour, you’ll have plenty of time to hear commentary about the wildlife you’ll see and ask questions. Keep an eye out for elephants, water buffalo, fox, leopards, and other animals from the comfort of a rugged 4x4 vehicle. Morning, Afternoon, or full-day options are available to suit your schedule.
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Itinerary
Framed by soaring highlands on its northern boundary, the Uda Walawe National Park is one of the world's best places to see wild elephants. Largely comprised of grasslands and bush forest, it's also one of the best national parks in Sri Lanka for game spotting.
Supported by the Born Free Foundation, this 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. Although you can’t get up close and personal with the elephants, seeing them at feeding time (from a viewing platform) is still a lot of fun.
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Hotel Pick up is included from Tissa, Yodakandiya, Weerawila, Lunugamwehera, Udawalawe, Thanamalwila Area.
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Important Information
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(9)
We had a fantastic afternoon with a very knowledgeable tour guide who spotted lots of animals on our safari, in addition to the lovely elephants. Our driver was punctual and friendly and stopped to let us feed an elephant we saw on the side of the road, which was a real highlight! Thank you for a very memorable afternoon.
What an absolutely amazing day. Our tour guide, Pathum, was polite, extremely knowledgeable about all the animals and park, friendly, and provided such a wonderful experience. He got us to see things that no one else did off the beaten path. We were able to take amazing photos and capture a truly once in a lifetime experience. I would recommend this safari tour and tour guide to anyone looking to explore Udawalawe National Park. Thank you again for an incredible experience.
My friend and I had a great time in this tour. Our guide Yashara is very reliable and gets the job done. We requested to see a leopard and that was the first thing saw in just an hour! He really knows what he’s doing and lucky to have him as our guide/driver. He takes pride in his job and makes sure that you are having a good time. Lastly, has a lot of interesting information about the animals. I would definitely recommend him.
Baby feeding wasn't necessary. (Too touristy). Otherwise beautiful landscapes, lots of animals to see. Definitely enough elephants there.
Very well organized safari tour including easy and punctual pick-up from the hotel by our guide Sasanka (very good guide!). Good car with lots of space and good seats - important because the roads are not paved. Sasanka made sure that we could see all the animals - even leopards - and explained everything we needed to know about the animals.
Your service is very good. We appreciate your service from elle to the safari destination. We appreciate the pleasant company of the driver of the vehicle.
Transfer and tour on time, good and interesting explanations from the guide. Saw a lot of elephants. Unfortunately, apart from various birds, water buffalo and peacocks, the rest of the animals were limited.
We had a fantastic day with our tour guide at Yala. Once we got past the wacky race beginning amongst the other jeeps our driver took us on a quieter route thankfully. He was very experienced and knowledgeable about the park and the animals habits meaning we very clearly seen a Leopard, elephants , some bears, crocodiles, a range of birds, water buffalo to name a few animals. Our driver knew to wait 10 minutes when other went on when we spotted a female elephant and along came some more, including baby elephants. Definitely the highlight! We were treated to plenty water, soft drinks and a lovely lunch. We then went on to the elephant transit centre. If possible skip that, not due to the tour guide but the centre itself…do your own research. Unfortunately the rain came in so we didn’t make the second park but we didn’t mind as we had such a good trip in the morning.
Great experience. We saw a lot of elephants, jungle cat, buffaloes, deers, wild boars, many types of birds and 3 foxes. The jeeps are good and the service is very kind. We were very lucky and, as you can see in the photos, we saw a baby elephant.
