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Itinerary Bird Watching Holidays - Option I - Winter
Duration Info DAY - 4 (Sinharaja - Udawalawe)
Accommodation Info
Location UDAWALAWE
Meals Info half board
Hotel Grand Udawalawe Safari Resort
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Id 664
Created 5/25/20, 5:34 PM

Description

<ul><li>Breakfast at the hotel<br></li><li>Transfer you to Udawalawe. Approximately 2 and a half hours’ drive.</li><li>Enroute visit Waulpane cave to explore the kingdom of bats</li><li>Afternoon bird watching and wildlife safari in Udawalawe national park</li><li>Dinner and overnight stay at Grand Udawalawe Safari Resort</li></ul>

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43 22 1 Wildlife safari, Udawalawe national park Wildlife safari, Udawalawe national park <ul>Udawalawe national park is famous for its large herd of the Asian elephant and water buffaloes, situated 165 km from Colombo in the southeastern part of the country. The park is covered with open grassland and thorny – shrub jungle which remembering the Game Parks in Africa. Due to this landscape, Udawalawe is the best park to watch and photograph a large herd of wild Asian elephants.<br> <br>The large scattered areas of grasslands and thorny-shrubs while tall trees close to Walawe River most favours for birdlife where Large prinia, White-browed prinia, Ashy prinia, Franklins prinia, Yellow-eyed babbler, White-throated babbler, White-rumped shama, Brown-capped babbler, Black-fronted babbler, Common &amp; Marshall’s Iora, Ceylon grey hornbill, Blue-faced malkoha, White-necked Stork, Lesser Adjutant Stork, Blyth’s Pipit, Ceylon Jungle Fowl, etc. are common. </ul> 1 B.jpg 2/10/19, 3:02 AM View Edit
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46 22 27 Waulpane cave Waulpane cave <ul>Waulpane limestone cave located 41 km northwest of Udawalawe contains a large number of stalactites and stalagmites estimated to be more than a million years old. Waulpane cave in accordance with its’ Sinhala literally meaning Cave of Bats, is home to approximately 500,000 bats of 6 varieties. It is possible to walk through this cave and able to explore the building process of fossils which is still continuing and exit from the other side. </ul> 1 B.jpg 2/10/19, 3:10 AM View Edit
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