Horton Plains National Park Once a popular colonial game plateau near Little England and named after the Governor Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, Horton Plains was declared as a national park in 1988. Situated in the Central Highland  protected area complex and being the home for vast number of unique and endemic floral ...

On the Puttalam Road approximately 100km north of Colombo (15km north of Chilaw), an unsigned left turn 300 metres beyond of the 91km post leads 1.5km down a quiet lane into the heart of another unique wetland region. Annaiwilundawa is a cluster of shallow, 12th-century, manmade, cascading freshwater reservoirs surrounded by ...

 Minneriya Elephant Gathering Built in 300AD by King Mahasena, Minneriya Wewa (reservoir) was later included in the unique irrigation network of the dry zone of ancient Sri Lanka. Minneriya, together with her rich catchment area and precious wildlife associated, was declared as a National Park in 1997. This protected ...

  Wilpattu National Park An exile from the Indian mainland sailed to the Northwest coast of Sri Lanka in 543 BC, met a local tribal queen and married her. They, King Vijaya and Princess Kuveni, founded the race Sinhala, the history says. The historical sites where Vijaya landed on and subsequently met Kuveni are still ...

Gal Oya National Park was established on the 12 February, 1954, in order to protect a portion of the 100,000 hectare catchment area of the massive Senanayake Samudra. It was created by the damming of the river called the Gal Oya with the goal of opening up 162,000 hectares of forest land for agricultural development and was ...

Since Uda Walawe was declared a national park in 1972 it has become very popular, no doubt due to its relative proximity to Colombo (200 kilometres) situated within the Ratnapura and Moneragala districts and the fact that elephants can always be found there. The ecological centrepiece of this popular park is the 3,400 ...

The first protected area declared in Colonial Ceylon was Yala sanctuary in 1900 as it was a popular game destination. Later the sanctuary was upgraded to a national park in 1938 and subsequent expansion of the park into wilderness resulted in the biggest protected area complex in the southeast Sri Lanka today. For the ...