“Once past the typical city experiences (malls, roadside restaurants and handicraft shops) in Colombo, an untamed tropical landscape of flowering acacias and mangrove swamps embraced me,” the writer explains.

The Times of India writer advises travelers the animal safari at the Yala National Park was a better opportunity to see the wild. The 6 am safari was a meeting place for not just untamed elephants but also leopards. As we drove around the 100,000 hectares of the park, a lounging leopard sunning it up was a privileged view, the writer further said.

A precious freezeframe. Peacocks crossed our paths. Around 130 bird species -- lesser flamingos, paradise flycatchers, crested hawk eagles and the green-billed Caucal surrounded the cosmos, he adds.

The writer says during his stay in Sri Lanka he has explored the raw aspects of the Isle of Serendipity. “Not only did it touch all World Heritage sites, but it cut through the length and breadth of the small south-Asian island,” the writer adds.

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