Yalan kansallispuiston safaripäiväretki Ellasta

Apart from the trip, what I appriciated is the communication from the local provider. The driver and guide, Mr. Kosala was great.

At first, we were disappointed that the tour operator cancel our 5am booking the night before at 9pm (via email) because of Ceylon New Years. This is the main reason it was not a 5-star experience. Our tour guide Thisaru was absolutely amazing. He organized getting an item I left at my hotel back for me and was fantastic when navigating around a giant elephant on the road. We were able to see Water Buffalo, Deer, Elephants, different species of Birds, and some small Crocs. Nothing is guaranteed so we feel lucky to have fallen on such a good day.

安排十分好，當地旅行社透過WhatsApp很友善地解答我的疑問。全程坐一架比較高的觀光吉普車，不過不要期望可以近距離觀賞動物，因為國家公園內都有行車道，並不會太接近動物出現的地方。

maybe not a good choice for us since the trip from Ella already took more than 2 hours (i thought Yala has other entrances in the northern part which would just be a little more than an hour fro. Ella). The local operator that picked us up from the hotel has other safari provider (it seems like all safari jeeps are external providers, not Yala's) that we met at the meeting point, which added another 45 minutes one way. thats why when we were at the actual safari already, we only lasted for 75 minutes and decided to cut the trip short already as we still had another 3-3.5 hour drive back from the actuaal park, to the meweting point, then to our hotel. the safari jeeps were also getting too crowded (maybe because it was Christmas holiday when we went so there were a lot of guests. i paid 100usd (33,300 srilankan rupees) for the entrance. I'm not sure if it was just for myself, wife, and 5-year-old kid, or if it also included our chauffer from local operator, and the safari jeep driver. because i saw in the ticketing office signage that adult ticket is at 20usd (as also advertised in this tour), so guests need to bring extra money for this just in case. then also bring/buy own food as the trip is too long for just the light snacks included in this tour.

とても素敵なガイドをありがとう！個人ツアーだったため、撮りたい動物がいたら親切に車を止めてくれたりしてくれました。また、ヒョウを見れる確率は低い中、見せてくれてありがとう！！お陰様ででとても楽しかったです！

Our driver picked us up from our hotel in Ella at 5am. He was very friendly and helpful. We arrived to meet our safari driver and got into Yala national Park at around 7:30. Our safari driver shared a lot of interesting information about the animals we saw. We were very lucky to see two leopards, a family of elephants bathing and lots of other interesting animals. We spent around 3.5 hours driving around Yala which was plenty of time to see lots of different things. We also paid an extra fee (60 usd) to be dropped to Galle instead of back to Ella. Overall the trip was great - just be aware you will need to pay for the entrance fee to Yala which was about 11,000 rupee. Would recommend.

導遊很厲害也非常認真找動物，遊園的時間非常足夠，很棒的體驗，回程停留的瀑布也非常美麗！

以Ella來回來說路線不太順暢，建議可以開Matara來回比較適合，至於行程本身沒什麼可挑剔的，看到什麼動物全憑運氣，可惜沒有看到獵豹，但還是有非常多動物值得一看的

was disappointed as I couldn’t see anything in the safari. I only say peacocks, deer and elephants. no leopard, no sunbear..

we couldn’t find the leopard, but the guide tried us to find them as long as they can. the driver was nice too! thanks