Yala National Park in Sri Lanka

Tissamaharama is the entrance to Yala National Park. Visitors can reach the Palatupana after a 20-kilometer drive through Kirinda. The well-designed visitor center at Palatupana provides tourists with information and assigns a tracker to all incoming vehicles. The park provides soft–top jeeps for viewing wildlife. The best times for Yala Safari tours in Yala National Park are at dawn and dusk. Ruhuna National Park has a hot and dry climate due to its location in one of Sri Lanka's arid regions. The average annual temperature is 27 degrees Celsius, but during the dry season, the temperature can reach 37 degrees Celsius

Yala National Park provides the best opportunity to see Sri Lanka's diverse wildlife: colorfully painted storks in troops are seen perched at the shores of the lagoon where the crocodiles have chosen to doze off; lovely fan-tailed peacocks in their resplendent blues and greens parade about amidst the woods where monkeys hang, leap, and chatter; elephants are seen in the bush jungle; crossing the tracks and wandering off into the

A total of 32 mammal species have been identified. The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya), elephant (Elephas maximus), water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), and wild boar (Sus scrofa) are among the threatened species.