United Kingdom

Val and Mike-Walk With Jith tour 2017

You understood our requirements and made helpful suggestion to our proposed itinerary. All our queries were answered promptly and efficiently

If you receive enquiries about photo tours, advise them that the forest areas are only good for watching. For good photos there needs to be open views and more light, so Bundala, Yala & Udawlawa are better. More reports/ photos from clients to show what can be taken.

15/3/2017

Val & Mike Walker

UK

Val and Mike-Walk With Jith tour 2017

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Hi

Just to say thank you for organising our tour in Sri Lanka. We really enjoyed our trip and were very impressed with the organisation. Saman, our driver, was very knowledgeable about everything and even changed the itinerary to fit in with our individual needs. Dumb was also good for the trip to the beach.

Just a few comments about the hotels:-

Don and Chris Gunn with Hetti

Hetti is an asset to the company. A very good birder and a careful driver! He is also friendly with a ready smile and speaks good English.

Don & Chris Gunn

UK

Ranskill, Notts

Mark Alliban and Leila with Senarath-Walk With Jith 2017

Very pleased with our experienced guide and his tenacity to find us the specialties. Very welcoming people.

9/3/17

Mark Alliban

UK, Peterborough

Tim Grove and Kaye

Hi Jith,

As promised, here is some feedback from our recent tour.

We found the itinerary and pace of the tour to be just right for our needs with everything running smoothly and  to plan.

 The accommodation, on the whole, was excellent with several of the hotels having great views and a good variety of birdlife in and around the grounds to ensure that I never relaxed completely! The staff at all the hotels were very friendly and attentive, and the food was good, (neither of us had any tummy problems). The weakest was perhaps the Leisure Village Hotel at Nuwara Eliya due to its restricted menu. Our room at the Rock View Motel also suffered from a smelly shower drain, but this was soon solved by opening the patio doors and taking in the view of the mountains.

Jacky and Martin Bottrill with guide Saman

Hi

Just to say thank you for organising our tour in Sri Lanka. We really enjoyed our trip and were very impressed with the organisation. Samam, our driver, was very knowledgable about everything and even changed the itinerary to fit in with our individual needs. Dumb was also good for the trip to the beach.

Just a few comments about the hotels:-

Tamarind Tree - Room and food good.

Kitulgala Rest House - Rooms definitely needs updating and the food was quite poor as very little choice especially in the evening.

Sorowwa Resort - Lovely room and food

River Side Villas - Rooms OK, food reasonable good but position rather out of the way so never saw Kandy

Grand - Our room was OK but at the back of the hotel, food was good.

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Hi

Just to say thank you for organising our tour in Sri Lanka. We really enjoyed our trip and were very impressed with the organisation. Samam, our driver, was very knowledgable about everything and even changed the itinerary to fit in with our individual needs. Dumb was also good for the trip to the beach.

Just a few comments about the hotels:-

Tamarind Tree - Room and food good.

Kitulgala Rest House - Rooms definitely needs updating and the food was quite poor as very little choice especially in the evening.

Sorowwa Resort - Lovely room and food

River Side Villas - Rooms OK, food reasonable good but position rather out of the way so never saw Kandy

Grand - Our room was OK but at the back of the hotel, food was good.

Rock View Motel - Rooms and food OK.

Paradise Beach - Room good  - lovely view but rather noisy with the sea rolling in, food disappointing

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• Excellent dinner in Yala
• Lake View Hotel. Respectable food. No beer.
• Nice and peaceful at Martin’s Lodge. Very attractive. Friendly.
• Kitulgala Lodge. Nice rooms, location & food. Great choice.
• Lake Side was a good alternative to first choice hotel
• Sinharaja guides were excellent. For owl & last 2 endemics.
• Nice to see links which benefit the local community.
  i.e. with naped Woodpecker in garden.
• Our tour guide Upali was brilliant & worked hard to ensure we saw all the endemics. 
• Brilliant experience.

Dave Horton (group 4)

5th / 16th Feb 2017

UK

Doughlas and Brian at Walk With Jith tour 2017

This tour was one of the best tours I’ve been fortunate enough to go on. I’ve been on over twenty, so I do have some experience. We came to get the birds and we got all 34 endemics and I personally got a total of 243 and my UK friend got a total of 253!

The tour manger (owner Jith) picked us at the airport and took us to the hotel. In the morning Thilina (Thilley) Kaurnanayaka was our guide and we were so happy to have him as our guide. He is an outstanding guide and a wonderful person (pleasant, timely, great ears and eyes) can’t say enough!

The accommodations were good as well as the food. The birds? You’ve got to go the SRI LANKA to get their special endemics (34 species).

Dong Nail

March 7, 2017

Gary and Jane James

Thank you for a very enjoyable week birding in Sri Lanka. We were pleased to be able to have a focused & tailor-made tour around 3 sites – Kitulgala, Nuwara Eliya & Sinharaja. Our guide, Thilina, was superb. He was very knowledgeable about the location of target birds, very quick to spot them and very good at call identification. He ws also patient, Flexible and always in a good mood, additionally he drove well & safely. As well as birds he told us about local culture, politics, flora and fauna. We had too many highlights at each of the 3 main sites to pick anywhere out ass more special than the other places – including important stops and detours. We enjoyed it all & would highly recommend using this company.

Thank you so much Thili!

Gary and Jane James

14 – 20 | Feb 2017