Our top picks for wildlife day trips from Anuradhapura to nearby national parks for elephant sightings, leopard safaris, and birdwatching.

Wildlife Safaris in Anuradhapura: The Best Day Trips for Elephants, Leopards & Birds

Wildlife Safaris in Anuradhapura

Sri Lanka's largest national park, and the least-known. Famous for leopards and birdlife

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Wilpattu National Park

Our handpicked Wilpattu National Park experiences for leopard spotting and birdwatching in Sri Lanka's largest, lesser-known national park.

Wilpattu National Park Experiences: Our Top Picks for Leopards & Birdlife

Wilpattu National Park Experiences

Pick up time might vary based on your hotel location. 
You will begin the activity at 6 am, hop on a jeep safari adventure with meals and rest in between. 

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Today you'll get to embark on an exciting safari game drive!

Hotel - Wilpattu National Park Safari

This is perfect for wildlife lovers! You'll get a full-day game drive to allow you the best chance to spot the big game, with an experienced safari guide. You will begin the full-day adventure at 6 am. If you're lucky you may spot an elephant or a leopard!

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Wildlife Safaris

Take a full-day game drive in Wilpattu for your best shot at spotting big game, with an experienced safari guide. Early 6am start for leopards and elephants.

Wilpattu Full-Day Game Drive with Experienced Guide

This is perfect for wildlife lovers! You'll get a full-day game drive to allow you the best chance to spot the big game, with an experienced safari guide. You will begin the full-day adventure at 6 am. If you're lucky you may spot an elephant or a leopard!

Megha safari tour is the best in the park! Nuwan is very knowledgeable about the wildlife in the park. He made it a priority that we saw everything there was to see in the park. His driver was excellent, took his time and didn’t harass the wildlife. I wouldn’t go with any other company.

Megha safari tour is the best in the park! Nuwan is very knowledgeable about the wildlife in the park. He made it a priority that we saw everything there was to see in the park. His driver was excellent, took his time and didn’t harass the wildlife. I wouldn’t go with any other company.

Best guide you can wish for!
 First of all we were extremely lucky and saw all of the Sri Lankan Big Five in a single full day safari with our guide Nuwan! This can of course never be guaranteed. We chose to go to Wilpattu NP rather than the more popular and touristic ones because we felt that those are overvisitted and to much exploited. We decided we rather go to a NP where there is more respect for the animal's well being and rest. This opinion was in full harmony with the personality of our guide Nuwan. He knows every species living in the park and is fully aware of their behaviour and needs. He has a deep respect and admiration for all animals, which is reflected in fact that he likes to take some pictures himself with his telelens and that he explains the guests everything they would like to know. I had the feeling we had the best guide out there so I 100% recommend to go for Megha Safari!

Best guide you can wish for!
First of all we were extremely lucky and saw all of the Sri Lankan Big Five in a single full day safari with our guide Nuwan! This can of course never be guaranteed. We chose to go to Wilpattu NP rather than the more popular and touristic ones because we felt that those are overvisitted and to much exploited. We decided we rather go to a NP where there is more respect for the animal's well being and rest. This opinion was in full harmony with the personality of our guide Nuwan. He knows every species living in the park and is fully aware of their behaviour and needs. He has a deep respect and admiration for all animals, which is reflected in fact that he likes to take some pictures himself with his telelens and that he explains the guests everything they would like to know. I had the feeling we had the best guide out there so I 100% recommend to go for Megha Safari!


Nuwan and his small team of drivers have been guiding in Wilpattu National Park since 2011. They'll try their best to accommodate your travel needs, not to mention the guides are good spotter! Their knowledge of the animals and command of English is also no less impressive.

Megha Safari

Nuwan and his small team of drivers have been guiding in Wilpattu National Park since 2011. They'll try their best to accommodate your travel needs, not to mention the guides are good spotter! Their knowledge of the animals and command of English is also no less impressive.

Wilpattu Full-Day Game Drive with Experienced Guide

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