Uduwalawe National Park

About 3 hours from Galle is this National Park which was created in the 70s to house all the animals displaced when a big dam was built. Its mostly reclaimed farmland and is semi dry (1500mm rain/year – its all relative). The main reason to visit is for its elephants  – its one of the worlds best places to see them –  and we had no trouble seeing lots on our dawn safari in a jeep. 

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Eating breakfast

Painted storks and egrets

Every dead tree had a peacock proudly perched – this guy had a veritable harem of hens

Cute monkey, big tree

As close as we came to seeing a leopard – hopefully we’ll see some at Yala

Water buffalo doing their thing

Delighted to be elephant spotting in the open jeep

Hornbill

Lone bull with heavy skies

Awwww

Family group

The southern small green and brown curvy beaked finch like bird

Eagle  – hunting for the swift moving srilankan mud grub..or something

Banyan tree