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Wildlife Tour Covering Birds and Mammals (7 Days)

Operated by Lakpura® 4.7 1,642 reviews Duration 7 days

A private 7-day wildlife tour of Sri Lanka with a chauffeur guide, covering national parks rich in elephants, leopards, sloth bears, and endemic birds.

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About this experience

Spend seven days exploring Sri Lanka's finest wildlife habitats on a private tour organised by Lakpura. Your English-speaking chauffeur guide collects you and drives you through the island's national parks and reserves in a dedicated private vehicle — fuel, parking, and highway tolls all covered. Alongside Sri Lanka's estimated 7,500 wild elephants, you watch for leopards, sloth bears, sambar, buffalo, deer, and a remarkable range of endemic bird species as you move between parks at a comfortable pace.

All prevailing taxes and service charges are included. Hotel accommodation, airfare, site entrance fees, and personal expenses are arranged and paid separately. With a private vehicle and a single guide throughout, the itinerary runs on your schedule — no shared coaches, no fixed group departures.

Duration7 days
LanguagesEnglish
Group typePrivate — your party only
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What’s included

Included

  • Transport in a Private Vehicle, inclusive of, cost of fuel, parking & highway tolls.
  • Service of an English-Speaking Chauffer Guide throughout the tour.
  • All prevailing taxes and service charges (Except for Credit Card Charges).

Not included

  • Hotel Accommodation.
  • International / Domestic Airfare.
  • Any expenses of personal nature.
  • Entrance fees to the respective sites.

Tour route

Day-by-day waypoints across Sri Lanka. Each marker is where you spend the night; lines trace the daily drive.

Day-by-day itinerary

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Day 1 — Colombo > Sinharaja

Morning arrival and proceed to the Sinharaja rainforest. Afternoon visits the Sinharaja rainforest overnight stay at a forest lodge in Sinharaja. Possible highlights of birds: Ceylon Spurfowl, Serendib Scops Owl, Ceylon Junglefowl, Chestnut-backed Owlet, Ceylon Frogmouth, Green-billed Coucal, Red-faced Malkoha, Layard’s Parakeet, Ceylon Hanging- Parrot, Malabar Trogon, Crimson-backed Flameback, Yellow-fronted Barbet, Black-capped Bulbul, Spot-winged Thrush, Ceylon Scaly Thrush, Rufous (Orange-billed) Babbler, Ashy-headed Laughing-thrush, Legge’s Flowerpecker, White-faced Starling, Ceylon Crested Drongo, Ceylon Hill Myna, Ceylon Blue Magpie Possible highlights of mammals: Toque Macaque E (wet zone race), Purple-faced Leaf Monkey E (wet zone race), Sri Lanka Giant Squirrel e (wet zone race), Sri Lanka Red Slender Loris E, Sri Lanka Flameback squirrel E, Dusky-striped Jungle Squirrel E, Sri Lanka Yellow Spotted Chevrotain E, Sambar, Wholly Horseshoe Bat, False Vampire Bat, Rainbow Bat.

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Day 2 — Sinharaja

Full day at Sinharaja rainforest. Overnight stay at the forest lodge in Sinharaja. Possible highlights of birds: Ceylon Spurfowl, Serendib Scops Owl, Ceylon Junglefowl, Chestnut-backed Owlet, Ceylon Frogmouth, Green-billed Coucal, Red-faced Malkoha, Layard’s Parakeet, Ceylon Hanging- Parrot, Malabar Trogon, Crimson-backed Flameback, Yellow-fronted Barbet, Black-capped Bulbul, Spot-winged Thrush, Ceylon Scally Thrush, Rufous (Orange-billed) Babbler, Ashy-headed Laughing-thrush, Legge’s Flowerpecker, White-faced Starling, Ceylon Crested Drongo, Ceylon Hill Myna, Ceylon Blue Magpie 

Possible highlights of mammals: Toque Macaque E (wet zone race), Purple-faced Leaf Monkey E (wet zone race), Sri Lanka Giant Squirrel e (wet zone race), Sri Lanka Red Slender Loris E, Sri Lanka Flameback squirrel E, Dusky-striped Jungle Squirrel E, Sri Lanka Yellow Spotted Chevrotain E, Sambar, Wholly Horseshoe Bat, False Vampire Bat, Rainbow Bat.

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Day 3 — Sinharaja > Udawalawe

Morning visit Sinharaja Rain forest. After lunch drive to Udawalawe. Overnight stay at the hotel in Udawalawe. 

Possible highlights of birds: Crested Hawk-Eagle, Crested Serpent Eagle, Indian Peafowl, Yellow-crowned Woodpecker, Sirkeer Malkoha, Blue-faced Malkoha, Indian Scops Owl, Alexandrine Parakeet, Plum-headed Parakeet, Orange-breasted Green Pigeon, Marshall’s Iora, Crested Treeswift, Coppersmith Barbet, Malabar Pied Hornbill, Jerdon’s Bushlark, Blyth’s Pipit, Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark, Lesser Adjutant, Ceylon Woodshrike, Indian Black Robin, White-browed Bulbul, Jungle Prinia, Ashy Prinia, Plain Prinia, Grey-breasted Prinia, Yellow-eyed Babbler, Black-headed Munia, Rosy Starling. Possible highlights of mammals: Ruddy Mongoose, Asian Elephant, Golden Jackal, Jungle Cat, Indian Flying Fox, Lesser Tube-nosed Bat.

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Day 4 — Udawalawe > Yala

Morning visit to Udawalawe National Park and leave for Thissamaharama.Check-in at the hotel at lunchtime. After lunch visit Yala National Park (Dry grassland, scrub, and forest). 

Overnight stay at Hotel in Thissamaharama. 

Possible highlights of birds: Great Thick-knee, Black and Yellow Bitterns, Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Small Pratincole, Watercock, Brown Fish Owl, Indian Scops Owl, Blue-faced Malkoha, Ceylon Woodshrike, Marshall’s Iora, Tawny-bellied Babbler, Yellow-eyed Babbler, Jungle Prinia, Rosy starling. 

Possible highlights of mammals: Chital, Samber, Asian Elephant, Sloth Bear e, Leopard, Tufted Grey Langur e, Eurasian Wild Boar, Golden Jackal, Striped-necked Mongoose e, Ruddy Mongoose e, Indian Grey Mongoose, Indian Gerbil, Wild Water Buffalo, Indian Hare e.

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Day 5 — Yala > Nuwara Eliya

Morning leave for Nuwara Eliya in the high hills. 

Check in at a hotel in Nuwara Eliya by lunch time, for two nights. 

Evening visit Victoria Park in town looking for Indian Pitta, Pied Thrush, Kashmir Flycatcher and some highland endemic birds. 

Overnight stay at Hotel in Nuwara Eliya 

Possible highlights of birds: Yellow-eared Bulbul, Ceylon Whistling Thrush, Ceylon Wood Pigeon, Dusky (Dull) Blue Flycatcher, Kashmir Flycatcher, Indian Blackbird (endemic race kinnissi a possible future split from the Indian Blackbird), Ceylon Hill white-eye, Ceylon Bush Warbler, Black-throated Munia (endemic nominate race, the Ceylon Hill Munia, a possible future split from the Indian races), Himalayan Buzzard, Pied Bush Chat. 

Possible highlights of mammals: Purple-faced Leaf Monkey E (highland race), Sambar, Toque Macaque E (highland race), Dusky-striped Jungle Squirrel E, Striped-necked Mongoose e, Sri Lanka Giant Squirrel e (highland race), Golden Palm Civet E.

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Day 6 — Nuwara Eliya

Early morning proceed to Horton Plains National Park (Hotel to park entrance - onehour drive) on further higher up in the hills, the park consists of grasslands and cloud forest in higher cool climatic conditions, looking for highland open country and forest birds including endemics, and also butterflies, highland forest mammals and other wildlife. 

After lunch drive to hotel near Airport

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Day 7 — Nuwara Eliya > BIA

After Breakfast check-out from Hotel & proceed to Airport for Departure

Please note

  • Infant seats available
  • Public transportation nearby
  • Infants must not sit on laps
  • Not recommended for people with heart conditions
  • Not suitable for pets
  • Not stroller accessible
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Bandaranaike International Airport OR Your Hotel in Colombo or Negombo

Cancellation policy

  • More than 24 hours notice: full refund
  • Less than 24 hours notice: no refund

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