Yala National Park

Yala National Park (also called Ruhuna National Park) is found within the southeastern region of land and extends over 2 provinces of Hambantota district of the southern province and Monaragala district in Uva province. the doorway to the park is at Palatupana, 12km from Kirinda.

 The entranceway to Yala National Park  is Tissamaharama. A twenty-kilometer drive via Kirinda takes the guests to the Palatupana. At Palatupana, the well-designed traveler center provides the data to the tourists and assigns a huntsman to any or all incoming vehicles. The park provides jeeps with soft–tops which provide the opportunity to look at wildlife. Dawn and dusk evoke the most effective temporal order for Yala hunting expedition tours within Yala National Park . Being settled in one of the arid regions of Sri Lanka, the Climate of Ruhuna national park is sometimes hot and dry. The mean annual temperature is twenty-seven uranologist, though within the season the temperature might go as high as thirty-seven uranologist.

Of all the National Parks on land, Yala National Park  offers the most effective chance to witness Sri Lanka`s broad kind of wildlife: stork-painted wader-in troops are seen alert at the shores of lagune wherever the crocodiles have chosen to doze off; pretty fan-tailed peacocks in their bright blues and greens parade concerning amidst the woods wherever monkeys suspend, leap and chatter; within the bush jungle are the Elephants; crossing the tracks and wandering off into the thorny scrub jungle is that the star attraction of the park: the leopard. A total of thirty-two species of mammals are recorded. The vulnerable species embrace sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), Leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya), elephant (Elephas maximus), water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), boar (Sus scrofa), spotted deer (Axis axis ceylonessis), sambar (Cervus unicolor) and golden jackal (Canis aureus).