Yala Safari Tours
Yala National Park is the most visited and second largest national park in Sri Lanka and it is famously known for its highest concentration of leopards in the world.The park is primarily shrub jungle with rocky out crops that dot the park, along with several salt and fresh water lagoons.
Rain is received mainly during the northeast monsoon usually from May to September.
At the Yala national park visitors could spot leopards, elephants, sloth bear, Sambar and spotted deer, jackal, mongoose, wild boar, wild buffaloes, langur and macaque monkeys.
Yala is also famous for its bird life. There are around 130 species of birds that have been spotted at the premises including black necked stork, sandpipers, pelicans, egrets, hoopoes, parakeets and bulbuls. One could spot peacocks as soon as they enter the park unlike the evasive jungle fowl, the national bird of Sri Lanka.Outside of the park are several other fascinating birding locations for ornithologists.
The coastline forms a major nesting ground for marine turtles.