Wilpattu National Park is Sri Lanka’s largest national park, covering over 130,000 hectares of dryland forest, open grassy plains and a series of natural lakes known as ‘villus’. The park is renowned as one of the best places in the world to observe the Sri Lankan leopard in its natural habitat, with the animals sighted along the shores of the villus at dawn and dusk. Elephants, sloth bears, spotted deer, water buffalo and a variety of water birds are regular sightings across the park.
