Yala National
Park safari tours offers wildlife viewing amidst
ancientrock temples.
Magnificent scenery along
the rugged Sri
Lanka South East
Coast. Ruhunu Yala National Park
in south east Sri Lanka, 300 kms from Colombo, was established as a wildlife game
sanctuary. Hence our
Site Map
name Yala Safari Park. Not all the huge 1000 sq kms
area, divided into blocks, is open to visitors.
A range of jungle, beaches or
scrubland Yala habitats punctuated with enormous rocky outcrops
shelterdiverse wildlife. Yala
boasts high
leopard
concentrations,
although seeing leopards requires luck.Where to stay whilst touringYalaSafari Parkin the deep south?
Our UK directors
stayed overnight at all 5 hotels reviewed.
Select luxury
hotel accommodation by the sea at theYalaSafariVillageHotel
,
Peacock Beach.
Or in interior five star
Rosen Renaissance Hotel.
or Elephant Reach .
The cheap
TissamaharamaRest
House offers suite accommodation but is poorly maintained.
Use travelogues to visit ancient temples at Kirinda,
Situlpawwa
and
Tissa.
End your armchair tour of our picture galleries
of
Yala Safari Village,
Rosen Renaissance,
Tissa Rest,
Kirinda Temple,,
Kataragama and
Tsunami Legacy.
CALL US ON 020 7193 1432
This site was originally published in early 2006,
after the Dec 2004 Tsunami and is being updated in
January
2010. Please bear with us.
Startyour Yala safari
tour stay at the aptly named
Yala
Safari Village. View the picture
gallery of Yala Safari Hotelwith its unique suite in the tree and beach houses on
stilts to get the feel of Yala Park and Beach.
Every hotel featured on this site has been visited in accordance with
our "Visit and stay before recommending" policy. For hotel rates complete the
Yala tour form
below:
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PICTURE GALLERYS
TSUNAMI LEGACY: Yala
Ruhuna
Park astride the low lying coastline was badly damaged by the tsunami of 26th December 2004.The wildlife center and
Jetwings tourist lodge were destroyed. Many tourists,
including a party of 22 Japanese, died in the disaster, as did several park and lodge employees.
Our Tsunami
picture gallery is a historic
monument to that disaster. Now Yala is again open to the public.In 2009 we are redoing Yala Safari Com as a
Sri Lanka travel site
ranks alongsideCULTURAL TRIANGLE .COM ,
GALLE
DUTCH FORT COM and
UNDISCOVERED SRI LANKA.