Discover and Experience Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is one of the few places in the world where elephants, the giants of the land roam next to the whales, giants of the ocean. With no land mass to fill the void between the Southern Sri Lanka and South polar of The Earth, a large number of Cetaceans or marine mammals including whales, dolphins, and porpoises roam the ocean around the country.

Mirissa just 3 km south of Weligama is one of the places to meet the Blue Whales swimming next to pods of Sperm whales, short finned pilot whales, killer whales, fin whales, melon headed whales with spinner dolphins and bottlenose dolphins.

While melon headed whales, spinner and bottlenose dolphins can be seen quite close to the shore in relatively shallow waters, others tend to habitat more deeper waters and a six-hour cruise along the Southwest coast of Sri Lanka will take you to the heartland of marine mammals frolicking among the unfurling waves of Indian Ocean.