Thank you for arranging such a memorable tour for us. All of the arrangements worked perfectly from the moment we were met by Lasantha to the time we were dropped off at the airport to come home. We enjoyed all of the hotels, the food was mouth watering and a real experience for us to sample the local dish ....  Read More »

My name is Peter Smith and I live with my family live near Leicester in the UK. For some time my wife, Cheryl, and I had wanted to visit Sri Lanka. The big question was how to go about such a trip. I am a birder and have a love of all wildlife. Whilst Cheryl also likes wildlife, she is definitely not a bir ....  Read More »

The success of any specialist wild life holiday depends hugely on the expertise of the guide. We were therefore extremely fortunate to spend two weeks in the company of Upali Nissanka who has both long experience and detailed knowledge of not only the birds and their habitats and calls, but also the plants ....  Read More »

My trip to Yala and Bundala was basically meant for the photography of Sri Lanka birds, but after a short time  you are bound to get photographs of many special animals as well.

I had read about Jetwing Eco Holidays in a wildlife ....  Read More »

We had decided at short notice to celebrate my retirement by taking a fortnight break in Sri Lanka. We received a recommendation from a friend to use Jetwing to arrange some birding and animal viewing for part of the visit. Wicky was particularly recommended as a bird guide and driver, and we were fortunat ....  Read More »

I had attended a wildlife lecture a week back where I met Spencer Maneuelpillai,  who showed some photographs of leopards he had taken the week before at Wilpattu on a day outing. I had been to Wilpattu three times before (had done four game drives), twice this year and was yet ....  Read More »

"The first thing I can say about Sri Lanka is that it's perfectly obvious we're not going to be here long enough!  I would have guessed that about sort of two or three weeks at least you need to see Sri Lanka's wildlife.  To see Sri Lanka completely you'd need two or three ye ....  Read More »

Mike along with eight other Butterfly enthusiasts from the UK, visited Sri Lanka in late February 2010 for a twevle day quest in search of Sri Lanka's Butterflies. The group were led by Wicky, one of Jetwing Eco Holiday's most experienced naturalist guides and managed to ....  Read More »

Lesley and Gill’s Sri Lankan wildlife adventure began with a 3 day Whale watching tour from the 17-20 January off the coast of Mirissa in the South of Sri Lanka. On the first day, there were sightings of 6 Blue Whales and 15 Bottle-nosed Dolphins. ....  Read More »

The first wildlife tour of Jetwing Eco Holidays came to me as a result of meeting Mr.Gehan De Silva Wijeratne at Sinharaja in last December. Mr. James Naylor a British who works in Singapore at the moment with his wife Alison a biology teacher and his twelve years old son Jimmy ....  Read More »

After sorting out our daughters wedding arrangements in Colombo, my wife and I spend a few days relaxing in the Sinharaja rainforest and Yala.  The rainforest is a must for bird fanatics; in a short stroll we saw 11 of the 30’odd endemic species, and a var ....  Read More »

Vil Uyana, or rather the Jetwing Vil Uyana is one of my favourite places in the world. Note I don't say 'hotel'! That is because Vil Uyana located in Sigiriya, though built as a 5 star luxury hotel, is designed so that it feels as if one is in the middl ....  Read More »

Sunday 27 September 2009

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On leopard Safari in Yala with the family of Dr Peter Hayes, the British High Commissioner, three weeks after the FCO relaxed the travel advisory on Yala.

http://www.thesundayleader.lk/20090802/onthespot.HTM ....  Read More »

This is a report from a press trip run by Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, Wicky Wickremsekera, Jetwing St Andrews Naturalist Nadeera Weerasinghe with Ifham Nizam (Island) and Faye Ruck-Nightingale (writer and photographer).

Tuesday ....  Read More »

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What do we commonly wish for from a safari trip?  Wildlife, birds, scenery, sounds, smells, open spaces, remoteness, and often something unique to the particular park that we are visiting?  On a safari trip to Yala surely everyone’s ultimate ....  Read More »

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The list below assigns a unique number to each on the very first occasion a species of dragonfly was encountered on this dragonfly watching tour with client Lol Carman.

15th of March 2008
Talangama Wetland

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This trip was organized by Jetwing Eco Holidays, ‘Wicky’ Wickramasekera was the official naturalist tour guide and I was asked to attend the session as a guest dragonfly expert. The booking of hotels and logistics coordinations were arranged ....  Read More »

The whole family thoroughly enjoyed an absolutely amazing trip to Sri Lanka.  The  trip exceeded our expectations,and the whole experience was so much more than just a holiday. We all learned so much about the country and the wildlife, as  well as enjoying the stunning and ....  Read More »

I just wanted to say thanks for your help with our tour, which turned out very well indeed.  Jaya was a great guide, and showed us so much more than we would ever have seen otherwise - including 27 endemics (not bad for casual birders!) and a bay owl, as well as marvellous v ....  Read More »

It would be true to say that all of the tour was memorable but the highlights would be:

Villa Talamanga -  Fantastic start to the holiday.  We booked an extra day but would ask for at least two extra days in future.

Sinharaja and Martin's Lodge - B ....  Read More »

Just to say what a wonderful birdwatching holiday that I enjoyed in Sri Lanka, and thanks to you and the Jetwing Eco team for organising an excellent tour for me, and a big thanks to Suminda for his knowledge and great company, which made the tour go so well. It was nice to m ....  Read More »

Please accept our thanks and congratulations on a wonderful country and a superb eco- company. We will not hesitate to use you again ( hopefully, in the very near future) and also to recommend you to anyone thinking of booking a holiday - anywhere. The organisation on your behalf w ....  Read More »

Ian and I would like to express our thanks to you and Jetwing Eco Holidays for organising an excellent tour for us.

It was good to meet both you and Gehan at Talangama (a very special place and heavenly food) and we were particularly impressed with our guide, Wic ....  Read More »

We had a great time in Sri Lanka . Thank you to all at Jetwing ! The admin prior to our trip was very well handled by Ajanthan and he kept us updated on the trip and gave us loads of information. Our guide Jayaweera  was great company for the tour and an absolute mine of inf ....  Read More »

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 I thank you and especially Hetti for an excellent tour Anne and I had some three months ago. I will give you short descriptions of our feelings. I want to underline that these are just our personal feelings.

1) Villa Talangama: Ex ....  Read More »

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A truly wonderful trip where we felt well taken cares of.  Our thanks first to Ajanthan for the organising and for his patience with my questions prior to departure. Next thanks to Jayaweera for his guiding skills, excellent driving and willing ....  Read More »

In answer to your request for our recent experience in Sri Lanka, we can answer that our visit to your country was very pleasant.  We enjoyed the accommodations very much.  The food was quite good, the scenery beautiful, and our guide knowledgeable.  We never felt threaten ....  Read More »

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Quest for Nature Tour handled by Jetwing Eco Holidays. Sri Lanka Tour leader ‘Wicky’ Wickramasekera, Guest Dragonfly Expert  Karen Conniff, Quest for Nature Tour Leader Dave Smallshire.

Day 1. The first Dragonfly T ....  Read More »

As this was our third visit to Sri Lanka and as we had seen Sigiriya Rock and Kandy on our previous trips, Jetwing Eco Holidays made us a tailor-made tour to meet our specific requirements and guided us in our decisions by their in depth knowledge of their fantastic, diverse countr ....  Read More »

Even as I try to summarize the most memorable parts of our trip in the course of this trip report I would like to start off by saying that our whole trip to Sri Lanka was a highlight! Sri Lanka is a amazingly exciting birdwatching and nature-lovers destination. Moreover, it is  na ....  Read More »

We want to thank Jetwing Eco Holidays for the wonderful trip we had in Sri Lanka recently. Our accommodations were great (Martins Simple Lodge being our favorite) and we had the opportunity of seeing wildlife in its natural habitat. This included ....  Read More »

Bob and I would like to thank Hetti for his companionship over the last several days. We appreciated his broad, thoughtful knowledge on so many subjects, his ability to judge just how much information we could absorb, his unhurried driving (in the countryside), his flexibility and ability to handle unexpected situ ....  Read More »

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We had a great time in Sri Lanka. Mano the driver was excellent. He was a very nice person, informative, knowledgeable and quick to pick up on the type of tourists that we were. Ie: happy to do our own thing without too much handholding. His dri ....  Read More »

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Ajanthan of Jetwing Eco Holidays was enthusiastic and helpful in organizing our tour (although there were times when email contact broke down between us). We had a great holiday, which exceeded all our expectations. Upon ou ....  Read More »

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The first thing to say is that we had an excellent time and thoroughly enjoyed our stay in your beautiful country.  Our guide Jayaweera (Jaya) looked after us very well, particularly when the chips were down and it looked ....  Read More »

We visited Sri Lanka during December 2006. Our guide Hetti was enthusiastic and knowledgeable. Out of the large number of birds we saw while on tour the ones that remain engraved in our memory are the Serendib Scops Owl, Ceylon Magpie and Malabar Trogon ....  Read More »

One of the moments that stand out from my tour of Sri Lanka was being in the Sinharaja Forest and being woken at dawn to see several Sri Lanka Bluemagpie feeding around the camp. My walk in Sinharajah was an enjoyable experience mainly because of Hetti a ....  Read More »

Overall it was a brilliant trip and lived up to all our hopes and expectations. We were particularly glad that we booked the whole holiday through you as from the very start we felt that we got personal treatment of the highest standard. Our driver/guide ....  Read More »

We had a good time traveling in Sri Lanka. One of the best moments of the tour for us was the leopard sighting. Never having managed to see a leopard before, we were rewarded on our first day at Yala with a distant sighting and then a close view (but it ....  Read More »

Being keen but novice birders, we wanted a tour of Sri Lanka that would give us the opportunity to see as many of the birds of the country as possible, but also to see other wildlife, historic and cultural sites. The aim of this report is to demonstrate that t ....  Read More »

What can I say about my trip to Sri Lanka? I could tell you about the wonderful wildlife that I encountered; leopards, bears, elephants, crocodiles, storks, etc, etc. I could tell you about the friendly and welcoming people of Sri Lanka, always with a smile. I could tell you ....  Read More »

We are enthusiastic but average birders with no experience of Asia. We had few expectations, as we didn’t know what was in store for us. When Wicky met our flight and we were en route to Villa Talangama we told him that we would be quite happy to see what we saw and had no ....  Read More »

03rd December 2005 to 21st December 2005 - Birding Tour - Tim and Carol Inskipp (Authors of "Birds of India - Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives ....  Read More »

Planning for our holiday started in March 2005 with all communications conducted by email direct to Ajanthan Shanthiratnam (eco@jetwing.lk). Before the final itinerary was agreed Ajanthan reviewed our proposed itinerar ....  Read More »

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SITTING in the back of a Land Rover in Yala National Park, we gazed upon a scene of devastation. The beach at Patanangala where tourists on game drives used to stop for morning tea looked as though it had been shredde ....  Read More »

We had a lovely holiday in Sri Lanka and we would definitely like to travel with Jetwing Eco Holidays again.   When we first got our flights to Sri Lanka, we thought that we would spend the week in just one beach hotel, we're so glad that we didn't because the tour that Eco Holidays organized for us gave us a gr ....  Read More »

Of all the places we visited while on tour the ones that stand out the most for us are Sinharaja, Yala National Park, Knuckles Wilderness and Sigiriya. Knuckles is set in spectacular picturesque country consisted of a rugged range, was home to abundant b ....  Read More »

With Eco Holidays (Jetwing) we had been planning our trip to Sri Lanka since early last year and it all came to fruition when we touched down at Colombo Airport on 5 th February. We were greeted by our Naturalist Guide and our driver, both of whom would be with us throughout our th ....  Read More »

We had a wonderful time in Sri Lanka. The hotel was amazing and the leopard sighting was even better! Definitely the icing on the cake as far as this tour was concerned. We started our safari at the crack of dawn accompanied by two guides ....  Read More »

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We visited Sri Lanka during February 2003. As a part of our trip we spent 4 days in Yala. Due to the skill of the driver and our guide Nandana we managed to find a leopard each day. One of our sightings was high up in the h ....  Read More »

The first thing I can say about Sri Lanka is that it's perfectly obvious we're not going to be here long enough!  I would have guessed that about sort of two or three weeks at least you need to see Sri Lanka's wildlife.  To see Sri Lanka completely you'd need two or three years I'd imagine!  It's my first visit ....  Read More »

We went for three weeks in January 2011. The first week unfortunately coincided with a bout of La Nina weather that had been afflicting much of the western Pacific with heavy rains and floods, especially in Queensland, the Philippines and parts of southern China. The persistent low pressure over the Bay of Bengal ....  Read More »

Thank you for arranging such a memorable tour for us. All of the arrangements worked perfectly from the moment we were met by Lasantha to the time we were dropped off at the airport to come home. We enjoyed all of the hotels, the food was mouth watering and a real experience for us to sample the local dishes, and ....  Read More »