Free cancellation
Yala National Park Private Safari
- 4 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Experience an adventure in Yala National Park, located in the southeast of Sri Lanka. Ride in a soft-top Jeep and view the natural wonder of the park with the roof open. Watch the sky bloom at dawn or fade to dusk, depending on your preference, and search for wild animals. Hotel pick-up and drop off is included during this full-day, morning, or evening adventure.
Inclusions
What's included
- Experienced Driver (Also your tracker).
- Park entrance tickets are included when "Jeep With Tickets" selected.
- Free Pickup/Drop off from/to any location within the radius of 5 KM from the Palatupana Park Gate.
- Private Safari Jeep (Maximum of 6 Passengers per jeep).
What's not
- Hotel pickup and drop-off if outside of 5km of park entrance gate
- Park entrance tickets are excluded when "Jeep With No Tickets" selected.
- Food And Drinks
- Gratuities
Itinerary
Meet at the gate of Yala National Park at 5:30 am or 2:30 pm to begin your safari adventure. Yala National Park is one of the preeminent spots in Sri Lanka to view a broad variety of wildlife. Admire fan-tailed peacocks in the woods where monkeys leap and chatter. There are 32 species of mammals in the park, including threatened species such as sloth bears, leopards, elephants, water buffalos, wild boars, spotted deers, sambars, and golden jackals. Yala National Park’s Block 1 has recorded the highest density of leopards among the populations scattered in the wildlife parks of Sri Lanka. View the large population of elephants that wander the park. Yala National Park is also rich in birdlife, with around 130 species. After a thorough exploration of all the wildlife, the park has to offer, end your tour at the departure point. • Please Advise which safari would you like to go on when you making the booking for Half Day Safari. SKU: LK50030100
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Ratings come from 56 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
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5Amazing tour!
Amazing. Recommend highly. Our guide was a legend.
5Yala national park safari
We did the afternoon safari from 2-6pm and it was a great experience. We saw a leopard, elephants, water buffalo, deer, peacocks all in their natural environment. Whilst there were quite a few tours operating at the same time, the safari did not feel intrusive. Four of us including 19 and 21 yr old went and this exceeded all our expectations
5Yala full day safari
The booking was easy with Lakpura and changing the pickup point was no problem.Thej 2jeeps were modern with experienced driver/trackers.Because of heavy rain during the drive did not see many animals.The whole visit was well organized and the wait at the entrance was only 15 minutes due to online booking. Thank you Mewan Maduranga
5Money well spent
Well worth the the $, our guide/driver knew all the spots where we could catch a glimpse of Elephants and Leopards etc.
5Super experience.
Excellent !! Loved it. Would recommend to all to try and use it. Loved seeing elephants and deers and peacocks ...wonderful experience
2Great expectations
I booked this Safari trip online via Viator which was confusing because I thought it included the travel from our hotel to the Safari Park but it didn’t the 12 hours that I booked was just for being in the Safai park. I asked the operator to reduce the time to 4 hours. Luckily they refunded me part of my expenses. The Safari itself was a little disappointing. The animals were so far away there were far too many Safari jeeps. I had to tell the driver to slow down because of the rough tracks and to speak to the driver I had to knock on his window for him to wind it down and I could talk to him. The marketing of the experience and the national park is excellent but in reality it’s a money pit but I guess that money pit goes to keeping out the developers. I would recommend it to keep the environment from development.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Palatupana is the entrance for BLOCK 01 and 02. And, it's a main entrance for Yala National Park.
- Pickup
- Pickup is offered, or you can meet at the starting point.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Lakpura LLC
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- A maximum of 6 people per booking
- Not recommended for child aged 5 years or under
- Please Advise which safari would you like to go on when you making the booking for Half Day Safari.
How it compares in Yala National Park
- Its from-price is 43% below the median of the 236 experiences we list in Yala National Park.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 25 of 236.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Yala National Park
Yala is Sri Lanka's most visited wildlife park, a dry-zone reserve of scrub, lagoons and rock on the south-east coast, famous for leopards and elephants.
Yala National Park covers a large area of the south-east coast of Sri Lanka, a mix of dry scrub forest, grassland, lagoons, rocky outcrops and sand dunes beside the Indian Ocean. It was set aside as a wildlife sanctuary in 1900 and became a national park in 1938, and it is divided into blocks, of which Block 1 is the most visited. Tissamaharama, a town on a large lake, is the usual base.
