Visits to animal and bird sanctuaries

            Visitors can view wayamba’s abundant wild life and its beautiful and distinctive natural vegetation in three excellent sanctuaries.

               Part of wilpattu, one of Sri Lanka’S major national parks, lies in wayamba, awilpattu,a beautiful lake-dotted wilderness is famed for its leopards; other animals to be seen in this exciting sanctuary include sloth bear, deer, elephant, sambhur, many varieties of monkeys, wild boar, porcupine and many varieties of rare birds. The possibilities of opening an entrance at the southern end of the wilpattu national park for the convenience of visitors entering directly from wayamba are being investigated.

            The recently declared wild life sanctuary at kahalla pallekele is an ideal spot to view herds of wild elephants, sambhur, deer, monkey and mongoose. Mundel, a large, picturesque, forested lagoon in the puttalama peninsula offers sanctuary to numerous aquatic birds such as stork, duck, water-fowl, spoonbill, flamingo, egret, heron, ibis, pelican, kingfisher,hornbill, teal and many varieties of highland march, large flocks of winter migrants can be seen.