Yala National Park is located about 260 kilometers from Colombo. It will take you about four hours to reach it. You need to get a jeep to travel inside the forest. A guide is available only if required. The tour inside the forest is twice a day and the schedule is given below.

Morning section:- 06.00am to 10.00am
Evening section:- 02.00pm to 06.00pm

Yala combines a strict nature reserve with a national park. Divided into 5 blocks, the park has a protected area of nearly 130,000 hectares of land consisting of light forests, scrubs, grasslands, tanks and lagoons. Two blocks are currently opened to the public.

Situated in Sri Lanka’s south-east hugging the panoramic Indian Ocean, Yala was designated a wildlife sanctuary in 1900 and was designated a national park in 1938. Ironically, the park was initially used as a hunting ground for the elite under British rule. Yala is home to 44 varieties of mammal and 215 bird species. Among its more famous residents are the world’s biggest concentration of leopards, majestic elephants, sloth bears, sambars, jackals, spotted dear, peacocks, and crocodiles. The best time to visit Yala is between February and July when the water levels of the park are quite low, bringing animals into the open.
After the tour, have lunch and will depart back to Colombo