About this experience
Kaudulla is built around a broad reservoir, and that water is the reason you are here. Your private jeep moves through evergreen forest along narrow trails before breaking into the open grassland at the water's edge, where elephants wade the shallows and graze unhurried along the bank. Your driver doubles as your tracker — cutting the engine when the bush goes quiet, reading prints and broken branches to find what is moving ahead. The park also holds sambar deer, axis deer, chevrotain and wild boar, while the reservoir shore attracts Asian spoonbill, grey-headed fish eagle, painted stork and openbill stork. Leopard and sloth bear are present in the park, though sightings are rare and never guaranteed.
Your booking secures the whole jeep — private to your party — for one to six guests on a three-hour drive covering 15 kilometres inside the park. Pickup and drop-off is included from any location within 5 km of the park gate. At booking you choose your ticket arrangement: jeep only, with park entrance fees paid by you in cash at the gate, or jeep with entrance tickets bundled into your Lakpura booking. On top of either option you can add a guide — a practical choice if you want species identified and animal behaviour explained as you go. Food, beverages and gratuities are not included.
