Yala National Park is world renowned as one of the best parks to observe and photograph leopards. Although it has one of the world’s densest leopard populations.

Covering an area in excess of 126,000 ha, the park is divided into 5 blocks, of which only Block One is open to the general public. The area consists of scrub jungle and brackish lagoons with stunning rock monoliths scattered throughout the park. The many different habitats provide a unique experience to anyone visiting the park and support a great variety of animals.

The often low-density vegetation provides ideal conditions for safaris as it allows a clear and unobstructed view of the wildlife.

Yala National Park has a substantial elephant population along with many other species like spotted deer, sambur, wild buffalo, sloth bear, mongoose and crocodiles to name a few. Also more than one hundred and thirty different species of birds can be seen, ranging from the lesser flamingos to Paradise Flycatchers, Crested Hawk Eagles and the rare Black necked Stork.

YALA SAFARI

Safari to Yala park begins in the morning at 5am, will be just fine to run and jump in to jeep. You can reach the park around 6 am just as the sun would be coming up.

Of course Block One is preferred area because it has high densities of Leopards. The lack of other large carnivores means that the leopard is the top predator and cats and cubes are not threatened during day or night. 

The drivers in Yala park are connected and when one of them look out some interesting he calls other drivers, so you have pretty chances to catch Leopard.

Don't focused only to Leopards there are also other large animals you may see in park such as Elephants, Crocodiles, Wild Boars, Jackals, Mongooses and birds. The flora is typical of dry monsoon forest vegetation.