An Island Worth Considering For Your Holidays

Sri Lanka is Asia’s leading wildlife destination and possibly the best outside Africa for safari. In fact the country has been documented as one of the ten global bio diverse hotspots in the world. Stunning Sri Lanka, located in the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean is a comparatively small island yet blessed with selected of the world’s greatest natural treasures that are past compare. Many have by now spent their holidays in Sri Lanka.

Why Sri Lanka is Different for Safari Holidays?

Travel in any road North, South, East or West and you are in for some thrilling moments, take our word, every corner of Sri Lanka echoes with the sounds of the natural world! The biological mixture in this little island has an incredible proportion of endemism for both flora and wildlife; to be more precise 23% of flora and 16% of animals are endemic to the country.

There are near to sixty National Parks and Reserves located all over the country, several of them UNESCO World Heritage Sites as of their great biodiversity, each one exclusive and special for specific species of fauna and flora. Still additional the Sinharaja Rain Forest, a Man and Environment Forest Reserve believed to be one of the premium tropical ecosystems in the whole of Asia is swarming with endemism; close to 140 endemic trees, 20 endemic kinds of birds, with over 50 percentage endemism among butterflies, fish, amphibians, and reptiles; it’s a gem trove that’s waiting to be revealed.

Adding significance to the this incredible wildlife endpoint is the Sri Lanka safari; the Sri Lankan Elephant listed by IUCN as threatened can be seen in large herds occasionally as large as 400 at the Annual spectacle called the “Gathering”, Leopard recorded as endangered by IUCN makes entitlement to the world’s largest leopard masses in the world, the unbelievable Sloth Bear listed as extremely endangered by IUCN and the biggest animal on earth the Blue Whale.

This tiny island is a birders heaven too! It is home to 439 kinds of birds of which 33 are endemic with 68 endemic sub species, 236 are upbringing residents, 203 are wanderers and the rest vagrants along with hundreds of birding locations that makes it easy to witness these feathered splendors in their natural habitats, no matter in which part of the island you are. After reading all of this, you may think for sure of spending your holidays in Sri Lanka.