Day 5: Wilpattu National Park

Day 5: After an extremely hot and sweaty nights sleep thanks to the lack of AC, we were up early to meet for tea and coffee at 5:30am, before we departed for our safari 🐆 We shared a Jeep with 4 others from Israel. Sitting was still not ideal for my back so the next few hours were extremely wriggly and not the most comfortable, but we saw lots of animals including:

-Green Bee Eater
- White Turtle King Fisher
- Spotted Deer
- Crocodile
- Grey Headed Fish Eagle
- The Sri Lankan National Bird - The Chicken
- Mongoose
- Bucking Deer
- Warthog (Pumba)
- Water Buffalo
- Land Monitor Lizard
- And the highlight…a leopard!!

We stopped off at a picnic area where we were given breakfast - fruit, roti, boiled eggs and some hella spicy onion thing 🥵 The guts were officially awake after that! Sadly we didn’t see any elephants, but to see the leopard was extremely rare so we got lucky there 🐘🐆.

Back at the tent, we recovered from the early start with a quick nap and spent the rest of the day chilling in the camp playing snakes and ladders (with no dice). Feeling slightly bored after not being allowed out for a walk due to the risk of wild elephants (we wish!!), we got chatting to a couple traveling a similar route to us from Amsterdam, who gave us lots of helpful tips for our next location. We finished the day with another average dinner served at the camp, albeit in a pleasant atmosphere around the bonfire. As it was our last evening, we joined the ‘nature walk’ where a guide took us around the camp looking at wildlife (mainly spiders, frogs and a single scorpion) in the pitch black. This certainly made for an entertaining experience when I was attacked by many creatures which later turned out to be a tree 😅Read more