Lakes, leopards and bears
Quiet leopards
Cats around the villus, watched without the queues of the south.
Sloth bear
Among the best places in Asia to see them, especially in fruiting season.
The villus
Dozens of forest lakes drawing elephant, deer and waterbirds.
The quieter big-cat park
A long, uncrowded dry season.
Big, wild and uncrowded
Wilpattu's size and lighter visitor numbers give it a genuine wilderness feel that Yala has largely lost.
Paired with Yala it makes a complete leopard-and-bear circuit, with one busy park and one wild one.
We lead with Wilpattu for the wilderness, and add Yala for the density — the best of both.
More to Wilpattu National Park.
Villu drives
Working the forest lakes for leopard and bear.
Sloth bear search
The palu groves in fruiting season.
Wilderness days
Long, quiet drives through the largest park.
We put the right tracker in your jeep.
Handpicked camps
We choose the lodge and guiding that fit your dates and pace, not whatever is left.
We time it right
We build your visit around the season that delivers — cranes, whales, fruiting-season bears or breeding birds.
Trips through Wilpattu
Where you’ll stay in Wilpattu
Plan your Wilpattu National Park journey.
Game-drive the villu lakes for leopard and sloth bear. Tell us your dates and we will build the route around it.
Plan a Wilpattu National Park trip