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 Home to elephants

Full day tour to Udawalawe National Park. We visited the Elephant Transit Home set up to rehabilitate orphaned elephants for release back into the wild. See the feeding of the elephants (there are about 50 in the Transit Home). Lunch at the Grand Udawalawe Hotel. Udawalawe National Park, a 30,821 hectare dry zone, is home to around 400 elephants as well as water buffalo, sambar deer, langur and macaque monkeys, crocodiles, water monitor lizards, and the occasional leopard, as well as a multitude of colourful birds including many aquatic birds such as the lesser adjutant, Sri Lanka’s largest bird at over a metre tall. See the birds here