Collection: Butterfly Watching from Matale

The Riverstone Gap and the Pitawala Pathana Plains in the Matale District offers the perfect setting for butterfly watching. With a well paved path that leads to a mountain top with beautiful 360 degree views of the surrounding highlands, Riverstone in Matale is a haven for butterflies. You can see them fluttering along the road and sunbathing under the morning sun. You can see Dark Ceruleans in large numbers while other species that you will encounter here include Red Helens, swifts and Club Beaks, Pitawala Pathana Plains also is a butterfly watching paradise with Common and Blue Mormons, Common Sailor and Blue Gassy Tiger etcetera roaming around along the roads that wind through the mountains.