YALA SAFARIS
Both drives run inside Block 1, in one jeep with one small group. Which one suits you depends on your route, your timing, and how long you want to sit with a sighting rather than move on from it.
20+
YEARS GUIDING YALA
06
GUESTS MAX PER JEEP
01
PARK, DONE PROPERLY
DRIVES
Morning, afternoon and full-day drives, timed to when the animals are moving. Your guide reads the park by season and hour, so the day is built around the wildlife rather than a fixed circuit.
MORNING OR AFTERNOON4–5 HOURS
Half-day drive
The standard safari. A dawn or late-afternoon drive timed to when the animals are moving, inside Block 1.
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GATE TO GATE≈10 HOURS
Full-day drive
One jeep for the whole day, with time to wait at waterholes and follow the park’s quieter roads.
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The park sets the pace, and we follow. Engines off at a sighting, distance kept, and no crowding another jeep’s view. We cap the number of jeeps we send in each day, which is why a sighting here is something you watch rather than something you queue for.
HOW A DRIVE RUNS
Fewer jeeps. More room for the wild.
Your driver-guide reads the park by season and hour: which waterholes are holding, which roads the leopards have been using, when to wait and when to move.
Up to six guests share the jeep, and it is always your group only. Pickups run from Tissamaharama, Ella, the south coast and Hambantota port — send us your stay and we confirm the timing.
Based in Mahasenpura, Tissamaharama. DWC-licensed and operating since 2004.
A half-day drive is 4–5 hours inside the park, morning or afternoon. A full-day drive runs gate to gate, roughly 10 hours.