Wildlife Belt
Udawalawe
Elephants, more reliably than anywhere.
Open grassland around a reservoir with about 600 resident elephants, and an elephant transit home next door.
Every route we run through the wildlife belt passes Udawalawe, and the question is never whether to include it but how many nights it earns. Our answer is 1 night — enough to see it at the hour it is worth seeing and still leave in daylight.
Tell a consultant which month you are coming and they will say plainly whether this is the right place for it, or whether the same days are better spent on the other coast.
Journeys that include it
Routes through Udawalawe
Each is a starting shape. Every one of them gets rewritten around the people travelling.
