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  Close and easy to visit Bundala National Park- Hambantota, Sri Lanka

  Bundala National Park is just as close and easy to visit from the town of Tissamaharama as Yala National Park. The difference? Well, at Yala there was a gridlock of jeeps to watch the leopard sleep on the rock. At Bundala we did not see half a dozen other jeeps our entire visit. We did the afternoon to sunset safari at Yala and the early morning safari at Bundala and I was very happy with both experiences. Bundala will thrill birders but you do not have to be a birder to enjoy it. The first thing we did on entering Read more »

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  Journey to Yala National Park-Tissamaharama -Orange Coconuts, and People Talking

  We left the island’s south-south-west coast a little before one o’clock with our only goal to make it to any hotel in Tissamaharama (Tissa, for short) outside Yala National Park before five the next morning. It was the one real event we had planned (read: paid out the nose for, in advance) — a hired Jeep to take us into Sri Lanka’s most famous nature preserve where elephants and monkeys and buffalo and leopards roamed free. We had only 200 kilometers to go and easy directions: keep ocean on right. Heading out of Midigama, we passed thefishermen perched in their traditional Read more »