Lying within the South-Eastern dry zone, the Yala National Park is the most popular destination for game-watching in Sri Lanka. Its landscape and topography range from dense scrub jungle, to open plains and rocky outcrops which provide habitat to 45 mammalian and 215 bird species.
Bundala, a RAMSAR wetland, is renowned as one of Sri Lanka’s best bird watching locations- with migratory greater flamingoes, whistling teal, gargeny, Asian openbill, painted stork & black headed ibis