Why Visit Yala National Park? 🇱🇰
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This is the story of my recent trip to Yala National Park.
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Yala has around 130,000 hectares of protected park land with the highest concentration of wild Leopards in the entire world. So based on that we should see Leopards all the time, right?
The accommodation was very close to the main park entrance and was actually very nice, the rooms were clean, tidy, food was very good and the staff very friendly and accommodating.
The drive was only around 20 minutes from the lodge to the park entrance. The car was modified for safari game drives, was comfortably and seemed quite safe. Overall I felt the visibility from within the vehicle could have been better, especially for photographers in mind.
Yala is the most visited park in Sri Lanka. Quite early on I found there to be too many vehicles to actually enjoy the safari experience. I’m not sure if there is a limit to the amount of vehicles the park can accommodate. Our guide mentioned there was around 250 vehicles in the park during our game drive.
Anyway, it wasn’t long before we came across a large elephant grazing on the main dirt road leading in to the park. It seemed quite calm and didn’t mind the vehicles passing by.
The experienced seemed a bit frenetic with the drivers constantly over taking and racing each other, probably trying to please their passengers.
A few kilometres further in the park we stumbled across another amazing elephant experience. A small herd was bathing in the lake to the right of us. There was a very small baby elephant amongst the herd.
It was very frustrating seeing cars constant passing us as we were trying to capture the moment. The drivers only really seemed to care about the experience of their own passengers and, unfortunately, showed almost zero courtesy for other vehicles. This is probably due to the large concentration of safari vehicles in such a small area of the park.
However, it was still a great moment to see these animals in their natural environment despite the lack of courtesy from the other drivers.
We waiting around for a while as the herd of elephants looked like they were about to moved out of the water and on to the land next to us.
I think elephant viewings like this are always going to be the highlight of any trip. This was certainly an amazing experience despite the amount of vehicles jostling for position for the best view. I was a little surprised the elephants didn’t mind the attention, especially with such a young baby. They just carried on grazing by the side of the road.
Only a few weeks ago the park was actually closed due to severe flooding. You can probably see from the video footage the roads are in very bad condition due to flood damage, and haven’t been repaired very well.
With hundreds of safari vehicles going through the main gates very day it’s a wonder if they will ever be repaired. This had a huge impact on the game drives, as we simply couldn’t travel very far away from the main gate, limiting the potential sightings of leopards, elephants and other animals.
Most sightings were of animals we could actually see anywhere in Sri Lanka such as various species of birds such as eagles, storks, herons, peacocks, large mammals such buffalo and even elephants and spotted deer can be found outside the national parks. So why are we paying someone to drive us around when we can see all these animals elsewhere?
Anyway, the park closes at 6pm so all vehicles have to make their way to the exit in time. This is also very frustrating as sightings of leopards is more likely during sunset.
Morning drives can sometimes be a better option as the driver doesn’t have any time constraints, he’s able to drive deeper in to the park. However, the park opens at 6am, so if you don’t see a leopard within the first 30 minutes you’re not likely to see one for the rest of the game drive.
That probably explains why so many drivers were racing each other the park gate.
The morning drive seemed slightly more relaxed than the evening drive but because some of the roads were un passable we couldn’t travel that far.
This meant we were constantly driving past and overtaking other vehicles, in some instances it felt like the drivers were actually racing against each other.
For most of the drive we didn’t really see anything we couldn’t see outside the park.
We then stopped off for a toilet break and ate the food our lodge had prepared for us. The facilities in the park are fine, just remember to pack your own tissues, hand sanitiser and wipes as there may not be any soap or running water.
It’s now around mid morning and the temperature is rising quite quickly. Around February the park can be quite hot and very humid.
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