Luxury hotels
Best 5-star hotels
in Udawalawe.
Our 2026 edit of the best luxury and five-star hotels in Udawalawe, Sri Lanka — independently reviewed, with rates and alternatives.
Udawalawe is the country's best park for elephants — open scrubland and the great Udawalawe Reservoir, where herds of fifty to a hundred wild elephants gather. There are no leopards, but the chance of long elephant encounters is the best in Asia.
Best time: April to September. How many nights: 2 nights.
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