| Description: | The Udawalawe National park is the best place to see wild elephant roaming around in a natural habitat, not to mention Udawalawe National park is the most beautiful national park in Sri Lanka because of the soaring highlands and its majestic Udawalawwe reservoir surrounded by marshes, greenish grasslands and forests, that makes a habitat not only for wild elephants but birds and many other animals including Reptiles and Mamals. Before the park is declared as a protected habitat, the Land area is used by local farmers to grow their crops by the method called shifting cultivation (China farming) now the park is a strict nature reserve. Park came to be mainly because, construction of the Udawalawe Reservoir, to provide sanctuary for wild animals displaced by the construction of the reservoir. You can sill see the remnant of human intervention, dead, expired trees standing still in the depth of the reservoir, visually reminding once this is an extent of forest. |
