Sri Lanka’s most celebrated wildlife experience awaits on this early-departure Yala safari: a dawn game drive through the island’s premier national park in pursuit of leopards, elephants, sloth bears, crocodiles, and a diversity of bird species. The pre-dawn departure from your accommodation ensures arrival at the park gates at opening time, the single most important factor in maximising wildlife encounters, as dawn and dusk are when Yala’s leopards are most active. The naturalist guide leads the game drive through Yala’s Block 1, the most biodiverse section of the park, providing species identification, ecological commentary and photography guidance throughout the excursion.