Where to do the best bird-watching boat safari in Sri Lanka?

Gal Oya National Park feels like it has the best birdwatching boat safari in Sri Lanka. You go out across the huge Senanayake Samudraya reservoir, and you try to spot uncommon birds there.

Since it runs on the island’s biggest inland water basin, the boat safaris give a quiet and unobtrusive way to reach wetland areas that a jeep cannot really reach. For birders, this means calm viewing of white-bellied sea eagles, grey-headed fish eagles, plus big groups of nesting cormorants along the still shorelines.