Eco Tourism in Sri Lanka

Improve you travel experience with eco tourism - Sri Lanka is the Best Place

Sri Lanka is a premier global destination for eco-tourism, defined by its commitment to responsible travel that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local communities. As one of the world's 25 biodiversity hotspots, the island offers an unparalleled concentration of natural wonders within a compact geographical area.

Eco-Parks

Yala National Park

Yala National Park is Sri Lanka's most famous wildlife sanctuary, renowned for having one of the highest leopard densities in the world and a diverse landscape of dry monsoon forests, coastal lagoons, and golden beaches.

Udawalawe National Park

Udawalawe National Park is Sri Lanka’s premier destination for observing wild Asian elephants, offering nearly guaranteed sightings of large herds across its expansive, African-style savannas and open grasslands. Centred around the Udawalawe Reservoir, the park’s light vegetation provides exceptional visibility for photography and game watching.

Minneriya National Park

Minneriya National Park is a biodiversity hotspot in Sri Lanka's North Central Province, famously home to "The Gathering," the largest seasonal meeting of wild Asian elephants in the world. The park is centered around the ancient Minneriya Tank, a massive reservoir built by King Mahasen in the 3rd century AD that serves as a critical water source for wildlife during the dry season.

Bundala National Park

Bundala National Park is a coastal wonderland and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in southern Sri Lanka, celebrated as the country’s first Ramsar wetland and a premier wintering ground for thousands of migratory birds, including Greater Flamingos.

Ussangoda National Park

Ussangoda National Park is a unique coastal plateau in southern Sri Lanka known for its otherworldly red soil and stunted vegetation, features that are locally steeped in Ramayana legends and scientific theories of a prehistoric meteorite impact.

Horton Plains National Park

Horton Plains National Park is a windswept UNESCO World Heritage Site in Sri Lanka's central highlands, featuring a rare ecosystem of montane grasslands and cloud forests that culminate in the dramatic 880-meter vertical drop of World's End.

Forests and Botanical Gardens

Sinharaja Rain Forest

Sinharaja Forest Reserve is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the last viable remnant of Sri Lanka's primary tropical lowland rainforest, sheltering a vast majority of the island's endemic trees, birds, and mammals within its dense, mist-shrouded canopy.

Udawalawe National Park

Minneriya National Park

Bundala National Park

Ussangoda National Park

Horton Plains National Park