Sri Lanka’s most remote major national park is accessible primarily by boat on the vast Senanayake Samudra reservoir – and the boat safari experience of watching wild elephants swim between the reservoir’s islands is simply not available anywhere else in the world. The park’s extreme remoteness keeps visitor numbers very low, the wildlife encounters feel genuinely wild, and the experience of being on open water in a wilderness setting of this scale produces a quality of natural immersion that the jeep-accessible parks cannot match.