day Tours

Highlights

  • Leopard Tracking  A naturalist whose knowledge of individual animal territories consistently improves both sighting probability and encounter quality.
  • Coastal Lagoon Elephant Herds  Large elephant families gathering at the park’s coastal lagoon margins throughout the morning, in a frequency unusual in any safari context.
  • Dawn Sloth Bear Encounter  The rocky scrub terrain of Block 1 supports one of the country’s strongest sloth bear populations – dawn arrivals give the best probability of a sighting.
  • Exceptional Birdwatching  Over 200 recorded species in the intersection of dry forest, coastal scrub, and saltwater lagoon that defines Yala’s character.
  • Yala Coastal Edge and Lagoon Zone  The section of Block 1 where the dry thorn forest opens to the Indian Ocean coastline and the saltwater lagoon margins – a visually dramatic landscape that concentrates wildlife in ways the inland forest sections cannot match, and that produces some of the finest wildlife photography conditions on the island.

Yala National Park Safari Tour

A full-day private safari in Yala National Park’s Block 1 beginning at gate opening, when leopard activity is at its daily peak and the quality of observation has not yet been diluted by the afternoon vehicle volumes. Conducted in a private open-roof jeep with a specialist naturalist guide who knows the individual territory patterns and positioning that significantly improves the quality and duration of every sighting.

Inclusions

  • Private vehicle and driver to Yala
  • Private open-roof jeep within the park
  • Specialist naturalist guide
  • All national park entry and jeep fees
  • Bottled water.

Exclusions

  • Meals
  • Gratuities
  • Accommodation if overnight extension is added.

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