Wilpattu National Park is famous in Sri Lanka for many reasons. Scenic attraction, wildlife and walking trails seek the attention of large chunk of visitors. Its location of approximately 188 kilometers away from the capital city Colombo makes it easily accessible to tourists. This park is home to beasts like Leopards, Elephants, Bears, Deer, Crocodiles, Reptiles and also ample verities of birds. The unique feature of this park is that the existence of "Willus"—a natural, sand-rimmed water lake and basins or depressions filling in with rainwater make it distinct. After rainy seasons, they are dried up. Declared as a National Park in 1938, its lake contains water for the resident and migratory water-birds.

If you are planning to visit Kalpitiya then explore best of Sri Lankan Kalpitiya Tours options. Being a popular tourist attraction, it always remains filled in with tourists. The rush is witnessed throughout the year. You involve yourself in various types of activities here including Dolphin Watching, KiteSurfing, Scuba Diving and Wilpattu Safari to name a few. In case you are running short of time, then plan at least a day trip to this region for great adventure. Safari tours are available easily and at the cost effective rates. They offer you excellent Sri Lankan exploration avenues.

Munneswaram Hindu Temple is an important regional Hindu Temple Complex in Sri Lanka. This religious site welcomes the tourists who are the followers of different faiths yet they visit here for exploration. The visitors are from across the worldwide locations. Believed to be in existence at least since 1000 CE, this temple is known for the myths associated with the popular Indian epic of Ramayana and to its legendary hero-king Rama. Each Hindu festival is celebrated here with pomp and show. Being one of the five ancient temples dedicated to Shiva in this region, it is popular all over the world. If you are planning for a religious tour, a visit would change your life forever.

Kalpitiya Diving Center is a popular name amongst the tourists as well as locals. As Kalpitiya is a lagoon with the total area of 16.73km, it remains a must-visit site in Sri Lanka. This lagoon comprises of 14 islands which make it a perfect destination for the visitors. They are allowed to involve in numerous activities besides the usual one of sightseeing. It offers great scope for adventure watersports activities as well. Enriched with the variety of fish species, this place has indeed become one of the leading dry-fish production areas in Sri Lanka. Famous for the pearls in the history, it receives the tourists who are willing to explore the marine ecosystem with the diversity of habitats. They usually range from the bar reefs to flat coastal plains to saltpans amongst others.

There is a huge lion staircase which leads to the temple of Buddha with a sacred tooth relic. These stairs are half-way up to the hillside and they are considered to be a masterpiece of the citadel of Yapahuwa but unfortunately, now they are in ruins. The granite rock which emerges from thick vegetation against which the fortress of Bhuvanekabahu I has been built was earlier a lower town and a palace. Now it has become a striking site which provides an excellent view of the countryside which surrounds it.

The temple got its name as the silver temple because it has been built on a rocky outcrop over a mine which is of silver. There are two shrines which are superimposed and partly carved out of the rocks. They make up the Silver Temple which is also known as Ridi Viharaya and it was first built by King Duttu Gemunu in the 2C BCE. There are many caves in here and in one cave there is a long reclining idol of Buddha which has an approximate height of about 9 m. The walls of the temple are covered with paintings which depict divinities. A person could enjoy the spectacular view of the mountain range of Knuckles from dagoba at the top of the hill.

This place is usually out of the sight of tourists as it is very far from the track of tourists. There are a royal palace, two monasteries and a dagoba ramparts which is all in the countryside and is hidden. These places are all that has remains of Panduwasnuwara which was the capital of Land of the South in Sri Lanka. It has been built by Parakrama the Great in 12C. The temple of sacred tooth relic has been restored and maintained outside the ramparts. There is a small museum here in which the artefacts from the site are preserved and displayed.