Wild Nature – MoonStone

Adams Peak

The peak of Adam is a mountain 2,243 m high, located in central Sri Lanka. The mountain is sacred to the Buddhists. The area along the mountain is a nature reserve, a habitat for many animal: from elephants to leopards, including their…

Little Adam`s Peak

Picturesque landscapes of Ella.
The way up to the Small Peak of Adam takes 45-60 minutes, from where beautiful mountain views are open.
Nearby is the nine-arched railway bridge, one of the great buildings of the English époque in Sri Lanka.

Horton Plains

30 km from NuwaraEliya is the national reserve Horton Plains. This plateau is located at an altitude of 2100 meters above the sea level. From here you can see the whole Sri Lanka with its lakes, mountains, Adam’s Peak. In good weather even the ocean is…

Waterfalls, Nuwara Eliya

Waterfalls and mountains, countless tea plantations and real English architecture, all that is NuwaraEliya, or “City of Light”.
This resort is located at the foot of the highest mountain of Sri Lanka, Pidurutalagala at an altitude of 1884 m above sea level. It was…

Tea plantations

All the secrets of making tea, from gathering leaves to packing, will be revealed on tea plantations near NuwaraEliya and Ella.
The production of tea is one of the main sources of income for Sri Lanka (formerly called Ceylon) and is 2% of GDP. Sri Lanka is the fourth largest producer of tea in the world. Humidity, cool temperatures and downpours in the central …

Sinharadzha Rainforest

The last unique virgin forests can be found only in several natural areas of our planet. This tropical rain forest of Sinharaja is one of the few places on Earth where primeval moist forests have not yet been destroyed by humans. In a wonderful …

Safari Parks

Safari Parks are located in different parts of the island. Each of them is very interesting. The most known is Safari Park Yalla, where you can find leopards, crocodiles, wild elephants, spotted deer, wild boars, buffaloes, jackals, varans, monkeys…

River Safari

In Sri Lanka, during your holiday at a hotel on the coast, you can take part in a short two or three hour boat excursions along the river, in the so-called boat-safari. The Bentota River is the most interesting in this aspect (although other …

Blue Whales Watching

Another unforgettable experience in Sri Lanka is blue whales watching.
To see blue whales is an event in itself. Those giants weighing up to 150 tons and up to 30 meters long swim near the shore of Mirissaand Trincomalee, where the migration …

Tortoise Farms

For millennia, sea turtles were part of the ecosystem of the reef zone of the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka. Annually, more than a million newly hatched babies have replenished the populations of five species of sea turtles living along the coast of Sri Lanka (Green Turtle, Loggerhead sea Turtle, Leatherback Turtle, Hawksbill Turtle, Olive Ridley Turtles) from eggs laid off along the coast. As a result of rampant …

Pinawella elephant nursery

The Pinnawala Elephant Haven is located in the southwestern part of Sri Lanka, 13 km from the town of Kegalle. In 1975, the shelter was opened by the Department of Wildlife Conservation of Sri Lanka in order to save the elephant calves abandoned by parents…

Spice gardens

Since the Middle Ages Sri Lanka has been famous for its variety of aromatic spices. In numerous places of the island with a favorable climate for spice cultivation, spice gardens were opened. Such gardens are especially numerous in the area from …