Silent Bungalow

Top choice in Uda Walawe National Park


A welcoming place offering good budget accommodation in simple, quite spacious fan-cooled rooms with cold-water private bathrooms. Breakfasts, indeed all meals, are excellent. Sudath, the owner, organises very good safaris from here at fair rates and you've a good chance to share costs with others as it's a popular base for independent travellers. Book ahead.

It's behind the army camp in Uda Walawe town.


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