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Kalpitiya
Sri Lanka · Indian Ocean
Northwestern Sri Lanka's wild coast hosts the country's largest coral reef system and some of the Indian Ocean's most reliable whale shark aggregations and spinner dolphin superpods, best experienced from January through April.
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Bar Reef
green sea turtle · napoleon wrasse · blacktip reef shark

Whale Shark Corridor
whale shark · oceanic manta ray · spinner dolphin

Spinner Dolphin Pass
spinner dolphin · indo-pacific bottlenose dolphin · indian ocean humpback dolphin

Dutch Bay Wall
pharaoh cuttlefish · chromodoris nudibranch · frogfish
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