Sri Lanka is one of Asia’s most extraordinary wildlife destinations. Packed into a compact island are ancient rainforests harbouring endemic species found nowhere else on Earth, misty highland plateaus and national parks brimming with elephants and leopards. This quest takes the passionate naturalist – or the simply curious – on a trail from the lowland birding forests of Kitulgala to the cool cloud forests of Horton Plains, through Sinharaja’s UNESCO-listed wilderness and Udawalawe’s open grassland savannah. Every dawn brings a new ecosystem. Every trail, a discovery.