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This is undoubtedly Sri Lankas most visited national park. It is a wonderful place with a diversity of habitats including scrub jungle, tanks, brackish lagoons and riverine habitat. It is simply the best park the country for viewing animals. The park is divided into five blocks. Block West), which is what visitors mean when they refer to Yala, is the only one open to the public. It comprises an area of 14,100ha and was declared a national park in 1938. The park is closed from 1 September to 16 October every year, which is the driest season. Entry is by vehicles only.
Attached to the ticket office is an interesting museum showing the development of the national park as well as models and skeletons of animals found there. In the park itself, the flora is typical of dry-season monsoon forest in much of the southern belt. Plains are interspersed with pockets of forest containing species such as palu, satin, weera, mayila, malithan, kohomba and divul The scrub vegetation comprises andara, kukuruman, eraminya and karamba. Two endemic birds are the Sri Lanka junglefowl and the brown-capped babbler Very occasionally, third endemic, the red-faced malkoha, is seen in the tall forest on the Sella Kataragama-Galge road. The park is also good for a number of dry- zone specialities like Eurasian thick-knee, great thick-knee, sirkeer and blue-faced malkohas, and Malabar pied hornbill. The park is probably the best place to see the rare black-necked stork, of which there are fewer than ten individuals in Sri Lanka. The endangered lesser adjutant is another stork to be seen in the park. Birds seen fairly easily while on safari include painted stork, green bee-eater. pompadour green pigeon, imperial green pigeon and orange-breasted green pigeon. The park has a fine complement of wintering shorebirds as well as other attractive migrants like the common blue-tailed bee-eater and less common migrants like he Brahminy myna and rosy starling. The biggest draws are elephant, leopard and bear. The park is one of the be places to see a variety of mammals in a single day. A game drive could show black-snaped hare, spotted deer, barking deer, mouse deer, sambhur, hanuman langur, toque monkey,wild boar , land monitor, water monitor, marsh and estuarine crocodiles.
The afternoon safari starts from 3 pm to 06 pm and morning one from 06 am to 09 am.
You be at the park entrance to buy tickets 30 minutes prior. Your wild life naturalist will help you to get tickets and get clearance through the entrance.
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