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 a

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 th

[ A Birding and Wildlife Trip Report: Sri Lanka] This small island has so much to offer that even after four years of living here there are so many more things to discover in terms of wildlife and beautiful scenes.  This month I thought it time to pack up

Quest for Nature Trip, 3rd October to 14th October 2009 Sri Lanka Tour leader ‘Wicky’ Wickramasekera (Jetwing Eco Holidays), Guest dragonfly expert Karen Conniff and Quest for Nature Guide Dan Powell Saturday October 3th - Ta

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 y

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 18th June 2009. We left Jetw

  Tuesday, 27th July 2010 As I stepped off the plane in Sri Lanka, I received two messages instantly as I turned on my phone.  The first, from Gehan, asked me to ‘get in touch with Riaz urgently.’  I worriedly read the next te

Saturday, 4th September 2010 Today marked the start of probably my best weekend in Sri Lanka yet.  Despite the 2am start, this weekend couldn’t have been better to round up my time in Sri Lanka.  At 3am, Riaz and Mudara (who I’d visited

Yala National Park in Sri Lanka was trying to keep quiet about a mother leopard and her three cubs, but word had leaked from one jeep driver to another, one naturalist guide to another and from one photographer to another.  By the beginning of October many kn

Sri Lanka trip report, part I - by Maggie Sheriffs from USA who travelled with Jetwing Eco Holidays Thanks to Noah for hosting this post, the first of a few on the trip my husband Tom and I took to Sri Lanka from August 24-