Sri Lanka’s most celebrated national park and one of the world’s premier leopard destinations – a vast landscape of scrub jungle, rocky outcrops, coastal lagoons, and open grassland that supports the world’s highest density of leopards per square kilometre alongside elephants, sloth bears, crocodiles, and over 200 bird species. A morning safari in Yala is an experience of sustained anticipation and frequent reward – few wildlife destinations in Asia deliver encounters of this quality and frequency within the reach of a single day.