Leopards - Yala National Park
Yala National Park is the second largest wild sanctuary in Sri Lanaka. Yala is situated in the southern part Sri Lanka and nearly 300km away from Colombo. This was declared as a sanctuary in year 1938. But British Government proclaimed this reserves in 1900.
Yala National Park Entrance
Peacocks
You can see many abandoned irrigation tanks in Yala. Since this park is located by the sea, other than the fresh water tanks, there are many Salt water lagoons also located in.
Deer Family
Yala is famous for leopards and this park is considered as the place where you can spot highest density of leopards in the world.
Elephant Rock
Python attempting to corss the jeep track. Seems he is not interested about this tiny bird.
Other than leopards, you can see Elephants, deer and sloth Bears in this park, You can easily spot crocodiles by the tanks and Many wild buffaloes also comes there for bath and relax. Wild boar families are commonly spotted by the tanks.
Elephants at Yala
Elephants at Yala
Leopards @ Yala National Park
