Sri Lanka’s largest park is built around a series of natural lake basins called villus – flat, open water bodies fringed by dense dry zone forest that draw remarkable concentrations of wildlife to their edges in a setting of genuine natural beauty and lower visitor density than the southern parks. Wilpattu’s leopards behave with a naturalness that crowded safari environments rarely allow, and the park’s combination of visual grandeur, genuine wilderness, and quality wildlife encounters makes it a consistent highlight for Flight Ceylon Tours guests who choose it over the more famous alternatives.