Udawalawe, Sri Lanka: travel guide
A small A18 roadside town at the edge of Udawalawe National Park, base for the year-round elephant safari and the Department of Wildlife Conservation's Elephant Transit Home.
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Currency
- LKR
- Time zone
- Asia/Colombo
Top places to visit in Udawalawe
Udawalawe National Park
Wildlife · 4.5 rating · about 3.5 h
A 308 km2 park of open grassland around the Udawalawe reservoir with roughly 250 resident elephants. Sightings are near-certain and the terrain is open, which makes it the reliable elephant park — and, unlike Yala, it stays open all year.
Elephant Transit Home
Wildlife · 4.5 rating · about 1 h
The Department of Wildlife Conservation's orphan-elephant facility on the edge of Udawalawe. Calves are reared for release rather than kept, so there is no riding or bathing — visitors watch the milk feeding from a viewing platform at set…
Things to do
- Udawalawe Jeep Safari Wildlife · 3.5 h
Getting around
- Car With Driver main way to get around
Seeded from the curated primary_local_modes array; per-city parameters not yet researched.
- Tuktuk main way to get around
Seeded from the curated primary_local_modes array; per-city parameters not yet researched.
- Walking
Every city has walking. 2.5 km ceiling is a placeholder default, not a researched per-city figure -- Singapore is sheltered and air-conditioned, Bangkok often has no pavement.