Bird Watching

James and Brenda Woolfenden with Nandana-in Sri Lanka birding tour

Guide diver – Very competent and knowledgeable guide. Friendly and extremely helpful and good fun.

Accommodation – Overall accommodation clean and friendly staff. We particularly appreciated when accommodation room included a fridge, hot drink making facilities and a safe.

The standard of decoration, locks and fittings and quality and condition of showering arrangements varied significantly.

Itinerary - We set ourselves a busy itinerary with a rest period at the resort  at the end of tour. This proved to be a good arrangement. In future we might consider a mid-tour rest break as well as one at the end of a tour.

1-Main Photo - Bob Buckler tour 2016 with guide Thilina 

1-Bob Buckler tour 2016 with guide Thilina 

1-Bob Buckler tour 2016 with guide Thilina 

1-Bob Buckler tour 2016 with guide Thilina 

Thanks for a fantastic two weeks in Sri Lanka and for your help and hospitality!!

Foto Niels Henrik: Gruppen med guider - tidlig morgen parat til Sinharaja NP

Good Communication about the details of the tour, excellent service around including the hotels and on this tour (and as told from earlier) very good guiding. The chosen route is very good for a group like ours with many without experience about Sri Lanka and the birds. DOF travel will continue to use WWJ.

17 – 31.01 2016 

Soren Sorensen - DOF Tour 2016 with guide Tharanga (1)

My son and I participated in a 2 week long both birding and cultural excursion through Sri Lanka.

The planning process went on in a smooth and flexible way where the schedule was adjusted to our specific needs and we preferences.

As tour guide and chauffeur, UPALI did a magnificent gob ensuring that every detail was considered and taking care of – local guides were ready and at place when needed, and the hotels and restaurants for lunch were always first class situated in beautiful environments. Besides the perfect planning Upali showed up to be a very competent ornithologist able to identify find and distinguish between a lot of specific species. We were indeed very satisfied. 

Good Communication about the details of the tour, excellent service

The tour guide is a bird expert with very good eye-sight. It’s very important that the guide could point out birds from far/ long distance. He’s very passionate about bird / animals.

The itinerary   is good and well organized. However, the elephant safari could be removed from the itinerary and more time should be spent in Yala National Park. It’s because there are lots of animals. including elephants in Yala National Park.

Good local restaurants should be introduced to the tourists. so that we can taste the very local food and culture.

 Karen Lee Group 2016

Liz Young and Geoff Blinks with Kaush

Dear Prasanjith,

As promised here is our trip report!

We were very disappointed not to have you with us as guide for the 10 days we were traveling around but must say that your replacement, Koush, together with Indunil the driver was excellent. In our opinion, they are both worthy of a regular role in your organization. Koush went out of his way to deliver the target bird species we mentioned before the trip but he also has a tremendous enthusiasm and knowledge of Sri Lankan wildlife in general which only added to our enjoyment. Indunil also has a pair of good eyes and a kind, courteous manner which meant he was a good traveling companion.

This was our second visit to Sri Lanka and we specifically asked for Upali to be our driver/guide, as we knew from our previous visit that he is very knowledgeable, patient and understands our photography requirements perfectly.

The tour guide is bird expect with very good eye – sight. It’s very important that the guide could point out birds from far/ long distance. He’s very passionate about bird / animals.

The itinerary is good and well organized. However the elephant safari could be removed from the itinerary and more time should be spent in Yala National Park. It’s because there are lots of animals. Including elephant in Yala National Park.

Good local restaurants should be introduce to the tourists. So that we can take the very local food and culture.

More text to be added.

Paul Trigger (center) with Guide Hetti (right, with binos) and local jeep driver at Yala

Paul Triggs

11 Sep 15

Hetti is a good guide & tried to ensure that the clients wishes are met and that the client has an enjoyable tour. He has a good knowledge of all the bird calls and is good at locating the source of the call – i.e. the bird call.

Apart from the Rest House at Kitulgala & the Kinjou Safari Village at Udawalawa the hotels were of a good standard.

Both the Rest House & Kinjou Safari Village badly need refurbishing. However the most disappointing thing was that rooms were not that clean!!