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Local bird tour guide Sri Lanka (1 Viewer)
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dwatsonbirder
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I'd recommend just turning up at the HQ at Sinharaja and using a local guide - I hired Wasante who was excellent, though I suspect that all/most of the NP guides are very decent.
It's great birding there, just don't forget your leech socks!
It's great birding there, just don't forget your leech socks!
Andy Adcock
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I did a low cost tour with Baurs some years ago. The driver guide had all the tapes and knew all the sites though he wasn't a full on birder but I got everything apart from the two Owls which I didn't really try to hard for.
Snap. "Driver guides" are good. Ours found the leopard and 2 cubs which 2 other tours had driven straight past...
Y, nicotine and/or deet (iirc). Leeches are a good reason for sticking to the Neotropics...
Jungle
Active member
Hey,
We went with 'Walk With Jith' back in '13 and had a great week with his Driver/Guide Nandana. Did a few sites incl Yala, Bundala and Sinharaja. The latter being absolutely magical.
This is a small Sri Lankan company.
I would echo the need for leech socks, the little creatures are absolutely everywhere and will hang off all the vegetation at the edge of the forest trails trying to snag you. I was bloodied a few times.
We stayed in Martin's Lodge, which is pretty basic but has everything you would need and we loved it.
Another trick was to put a line of salt under the door to stop the leeches coming in at night, and you had mozzy nets to sleep under too.
Good luck.
We went with 'Walk With Jith' back in '13 and had a great week with his Driver/Guide Nandana. Did a few sites incl Yala, Bundala and Sinharaja. The latter being absolutely magical.
This is a small Sri Lankan company.
I would echo the need for leech socks, the little creatures are absolutely everywhere and will hang off all the vegetation at the edge of the forest trails trying to snag you. I was bloodied a few times.
We stayed in Martin's Lodge, which is pretty basic but has everything you would need and we loved it.
Another trick was to put a line of salt under the door to stop the leeches coming in at night, and you had mozzy nets to sleep under too.
Good luck.
