Yala national park sri lanka

The Yala national park is the Srilankan largest and the second largest national park beyond Indian Ocean. Yala has 5 entrance, but only 2 are open to the visitors (Ruhuna National Park (Block 1) and Yala Estonia). This park cover 979 square kilometers. And far away with 300 kilometers from Colombo. The park is famous for their content of different species of animals etc. Srilankan elephants, Srilankan leopards, and also aquatic birds are there. There are six national parks and also three wildlife sanctuaries in the vicinity of Yala. The largest one is Lunugamwehere national park. This park is surrounded in dry, semi-arid climatic region and rain is received mainly during the northeast monsoon. The wet monsoon area gives the shelters to more than 70 specific species of birds. Plus 215 of the species and migrated birds. The number of mammals that has been recorded from the park is 44, and it has one of the highest leopard densities in the world. Yala National Park is the most visited park in Sri Lanka. In 2002 there were more than 156867 foreigners and it is 30% of the European visitors. This is the most amazing and wonderful park that you must visit and the experience that you are going to get will be unforgettable.