Udawalawe Safari: Jeep Tour and Elephant Transit Home

Embark on a private safari during the golden hours at Udawalawe National Park in Sri Lanka. Explore the diverse wildlife sanctuary and spot elephants, leopards, and more from a 4x4 vehicle.

Duration: 14 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

Udawalawe National Park - Udawalawe National Park is situated on the border of Sabaragamuwa and Uva Provinces in Sri Lanka. This park was established to create a refuge for wildlife displaced by the construction of the Udawalawe Reservoir on the Walawe River and to safeguard the reservoir’s catchment area. Spanning 30,821 hectares (119.00 sq mi),…

What's Included
  • Elephant Transit Home Entry Fees
  • Pick-up & Drop off
  • Bottled water
  • National Park Entry Fees
  • Safari Jeep
  • Packed Breakfast or Lunch
Additional Information

Join Ceylon Nature Tours for an unforgettable Udawalawe Safari Day Trip, perfect for tourists staying in various Sri Lankan locations. Experience the wonders of Udawalawe National Park with an exciting 3-hour Jeep Safari, where you can see magnificent elephants and a wide range of wildlife. Also, enjoy a visit to the Elephant Transit Home (ETH)….

Location
Hotel Niwahana
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Predeepn2025
Apr 11, 2025
Udawalawa excellent tour - Excellent day wonderful excursion. Pathum our guide well experienced and know the best area in the park to find elephants.
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Ranuk
Mar 25, 2025
On time pick up, Great safari and Wonderful guides - Prasad, was great the whole tour. Making sure we managed to see as many animals as possible in the time we had. Such a great experience seeing all the park had to offer and would really recommend his services to anyone wanting to do a safari in Sri Lanka. Thank you very much !
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Nsnmadu
Mar 25, 2025
Wonderful Tour - We saw a lot of different animals and heaps of elefants. Our guide gave us interesting informations about the animals and took us places the other safaris didn’t go to. We had an amazing time and would dearly recommend this safari.
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Happiness00033262893
Dec 5, 2024
Memories 🐘 - A really nice experience, never get to and forget this trip so incredible and get so close to the animals, the elephants are absolutely magical Was comfortable and sitting in the jeep car even if the roads are dumped If I should say one thing that could be different then it is about lunch, we thought we should stop a place and eat but there was no arrangement for it so we did not get the opportunity and eat lunch, fortunately we had with us fruit that we got eaten in the safari car, for is difficult and eat the type of lunch we got served in the car while it runs pg of the roads are as they are. But otherwise recommend this trip
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Pioneer299635
Oct 28, 2024
Elephants galore! - Prasad our driver was amazing. We saw many elephants and he was very knowledgeable !!!!! Ask for Prasad as your driver you will not be disappointed.
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Lalith_s
Aug 22, 2023
Prasad and the driver was... - Prasad and the driver was very helpful Unfortunately ,due to drought we couldnt see many animals. We will use Viator next time too
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Shntrvl
Aug 20, 2020
Must visit!! - Our guide was an amazing tour guide and driver. He was early to pick us up in the afternoon for our tour and very friendly. He had extensive knowledge of the park and all its wildlife, stopping wherever he saw something that to the untrained eye would be impossible!
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Joy-anissa
Apr 22, 2025
Beautiful nature with smears - people made ! - Beautiful extensive safari with jeep (also possible with private guide ) The approach to the national park is like a car race - every driver wants to get his tickets bought as soon as possible - a daring race early at 5:30 ! The jeeps are partly occupied by only one person and unfortunately stink everything full ! Must join the other negative reviews unfortunately - as far as the environment and the animals are concerned it is absolutely deviant how it goes with the riders who offer themselves races also in the park to get to the places where an animal can be seen as quickly as possible ... The elephants we could see were unfortunately not impressed by the humans at all and thus fully used to it... With children under 10 I would never recommend it - far too uncomfortable on the jeep, too long on the road and the risk of having seen without animals is too great ....
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Omar1984
Jan 3, 2025
Few Animals… Mainly Elephants! - Nice experience but it’s limited to elephants and birds watching. We’re expecting to see more animals like Leopards or crocodiles!
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Andrew
Sep 28, 2024
A disappointing non trip - Got up at 3am for 4am pick up. Waited at reception till 5am using hotel reception to try to contact the tour people. Eventually the tour people rang the reception guy and told us the vehicle had broken down in the way. Not sure why they couldn’t ring me or reception at the hotel we were being picked up from as they had both numbers. Never mind, this happens but would have been nice to be able to go back to bed. I am now waiting for Trip Advisor to decide if I can have the £340 refunded and hope it’s in time to book another safari with the money while we are in country on this trip off a lifetime
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From $110
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).