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Is Sri Lanka the best all-round wildlife destination in the         world? Can Sri Lanka make the bold claim that it is the  best all-round wildlife destination in the world? The evidence at present is that it certainly has a strong claim if the criteria are based on seeing highly desired charismatic animals, especially large ones, as well as high bio-diversity, with very good encounter rates, in a long-haul holiday time frame, at an affordable cost, for both land and marine wildlife. However, it is only recently that enough building blocks to make such a claim have been sufficiently established. The views in the article on what makes a good all-round wildlife destination are based on the needs of wildlife film crews, wildlife writers and photographers and specialist wildlife travellers who wish to pack in a lot of story-worthy wildlife viewing, filming and photography into short time frames. Sri Lanka's claim to be the best all-round wildlife desti...