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Villu Country

Wilpattu National Park — 30 km from Anuradhapura

A villu lake ringed by scrub forest in Wilpattu National ParkSCRUB FOREST AND VILLUSPhoto by Rehman Abubakr on Wikimedia Commons
30 km from AnuradhapuraPhoto — Rehman Abubakr

Sri Lanka's largest national park and its original 1938 reserve — leopard sightings without Yala's jeep queues.

Sri Lanka's largest national park, declared in 1938, spreading across dry-zone scrub northwest of Anuradhapura. Its landscape is dotted with villus — shallow natural lakes that draw leopards, sloth bears, and water birds.

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8.4333° N, 80.0000° ECarto · OSM