Full day / Half Day WildlifeAdventure in Yala-National-Park
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Southern Province, Sri Lanka
- 1 day (approx.)
- Pickup offered
- Group discounts
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Scout the forests and lagoons of Yala, Sri Lanka’s second-biggest national park, on a private safari tour, with local hotel transfers and admission included. Choose your preferred safari, join a driver-tracker in a luxe 4WD, and watch for leopards—Yala has one of the world’s highest densities of them—plus elephants, crocodiles, sloth bears, birds, and more. Upgrade for a full-day leopard-spotting or standard full-day safari, both with refreshments.
- Scour Yala National Park for Sri Lanka’s wildlife on private safari tour
- Hassle-free: luxe 4WD safari, park entry, and local hotel transfers included
- Explore forests, scrub, and wetlands to spot leopards, crocs, deer, and more
- Choose from full-day leopard or standard full-day or half-day safari options
What's Included
- Private transportation
- Free hotel pickup and Drop off. (Around the yala area)
- Experienced Safari Driver (Also your tracker).
- Those prices include Luxury Safari Jeep Fees only. This is the cheapest way to book a safari Tour
- Not Include Entrance Fees
- Not Include Entrance Fees. You have to buy entrance tickets yourself.
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
Pickup details
Hotel pick up included form Tissamaharama,Kirinda or Yala area.We will pick you at the correct time as follows.Tissamaharama area – 4.30am / 2.00pm and Yala area – 5.00am/ 2.30pm We are the front in Line Every Day.as we pick you up early to get front tokens for the ticketing. Some Customers select the hotel out of our pick up area customers have to pay additional fees.
What To Expect
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Yala National Park
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Infants must sit on laps
- Infant seats available
- Not recommended for travelers with back problems
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Most travelers can participate
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Featured review
Jitesh_K
The tour was amazing and well worth the drive from Weligama! The guide was super nice and made all effort for us to spot a leopard! It was wonderful. He was extremely courteous as well. Would definitely recommend this to everyone!!!
Reviews
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Carrie_M, Apr 2026
Our guide Udayanga was the best. We had several amazing experiences with the elephants and also observed a leopard and a sloth bear and avoided the crowds. It felt like we had the park to ourselves . He was friendly and knowledgeable and ensured we had a terrific safari.
Response from Host, Apr 2026
Greetings from Leopard Eye Safari, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We’re delighted to hear that you had a wonderful and memorable safari experience. It was our pleasure to have you on our game drive. We look forward to welcoming you again for another unforgettable adventure in the wild! Warm regards, Leopard Eye Safari Team
Carrie_M, Apr 2026
Amila was amazing. A very skilled safari guide. He knew where the leopard was going. We sat for a bit and sure enough the leopard came out of the woods. We had a wonderful view of the leopard
Response from Host, Apr 2026
Greetings from Leopard Eye Safari, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We’re delighted to hear that you had a wonderful and memorable safari experience. It was our pleasure to have you on our game drive. We look forward to welcoming you again for another unforgettable adventure in the wild! Warm regards, Leopard Eye Safari Team
Joey_U, Mar 2026
We were picked up on time at our hotel and drove to Yala park for the afternoon safari. We saw a lot of elephants (with baby!), deers, buffalo’s, birds and a crocodile. Unfortunately no leopard
The driver was very good at spotting the animals and he asked what we wanted to see.
Response from Host, Mar 2026
Greetings from Leopard Eye Safari, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We’re delighted to hear that you had a wonderful and memorable safari experience. It was our pleasure to have you on our game drive. We look forward to welcoming you again for another unforgettable adventure in the wild! Warm regards, Leopard Eye Safari Team
Tom_B, Jul 2025
Didn’t spot a leopard unfortunately on our 7 hour safari trip, but saw lots of other wildlife which was just as impressive!
Our guide Nissanaka was great!
Response from Host, Jul 2025
Greetings from Leopard Eye Safari,
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We’re delighted to hear that you had a wonderful and memorable safari experience. It was our pleasure to have you on our game drive.
We look forward to welcoming you again for another unforgettable adventure in the wild!
Warm regards,
Leopard Eye Safari Team
AlexandraK_V, Jun 2025
Amazing while day Safari! Our guide was friendly, fun, knowledgeable and went above and beyond to take us around the park. He even worked one hour over time to show us 2 leopards at the end of the day. He showed respect for the wildlife and we got to come up close with several elephants. We had a 2 hour lunch break from 12-2pm when the park is closed where he served delicious home cooked srilankan curry. Memories of a lifetime.
Response from Host, Jun 2025
Hello AlexandraK_V , Greetings from Leopard Eye Safari, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We hope that you have had a wonderful and memorable experience on your safari. We look forward to an opportunity to welcome you again to our game drive. We look forward to it. Regards!!
Hanne_D, Jun 2025
Great experience for a safari in Yala park. The driver was very experienced and we saw elephants (even a baby elephant), a leopard and a bear!! I can only recommend.
Response from Host, Jun 2025
Hello Hanne , Greetings from Leopard Eye Safari, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We hope that you have had a wonderful and memorable experience on your safari. We look forward to an opportunity to welcome you again to our game drive. We look forward to it. Regards!!
Kenneth_G, Apr 2025
Such an amazing experience! We had a leopard come right up to our jeep and lay down right in front of us. I didn't expect to get up so close. Truely amazing. We also saw a sloth bear, an elephant, buffalo, deer, mongoose, dung beetle, and a huge amount of different birds.
Response from Host, Jun 2025
Hello Kenneth , Greetings from Leopard Eye Safari, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We hope that you have had a wonderful and memorable experience on your safari. We look forward to an opportunity to welcome you again to our game drive. We look forward to it. Regards!!
Alessia_L, Feb 2025
Unforgettable experience.
We saw so many animals and our guide was the best, he made sure we were first at the entrance and that we had enough time with every animal we encountered.
He provided us with a delicious lunch and we had plenty of snacks and cool water during the whole safari.
Thank you so much for the amazing experience!
Response from Host, Feb 2025
Hello Alessia, Greetings from Leopard Eye Safari, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We hope that you have had a wonderful and memorable experience on your safari. We look forward to an opportunity to welcome you again to our game drive. We look forward to it. Regards!!
Jitesh_K, Nov 2024
The tour was amazing and well worth the drive from Weligama! The guide was super nice and made all effort for us to spot a leopard! It was wonderful. He was extremely courteous as well. Would definitely recommend this to everyone!!!
Response from Host, Nov 2024
Hello Jitesh, Greetings from Leopard Eye Safari, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We hope that you have had a wonderful and memorable experience on your safari. We look forward to an opportunity to welcome you again to our game drive. We look forward to it. Regards!!
Mark_S, Sep 2024
What an amazing day! We were picked up at 5 AM at our hotel by Udayanga, and taken to the entrance of the park. We waited until the park opened at 6, and went right in. We immediately came across a young elephant right by the side of the road! Through the rest of the morning, Udayanga took us around to a bunch of his “hot spots”, and we came across multiple families of elephants, wild boars, water buffalos, etc. For lunch, he grabbed a table for us and laid out a nice spread of rice, curry, chicken, green beans, and fresh cut watermelon. After lunch, he was on a mission to find a leopard, but despite his efforts, we were not successful. He felt extremely bad that he wasn’t able to find one, and apologized multiple times (obviously not his fault!). He brought us back to the hotel by ~6:30. What a great day!
Response from Host, Sep 2024
Hello Mark, Greetings from Leopard Eye Safari, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We hope that you have had a wonderful and memorable experience on your safari. We look forward to an opportunity to welcome you again to our game drive. We look forward to it. Regards!!
Hannah_C, May 2024
Absolutely amazing experience with our guide Udayanga. We saw a really wide range of wildlife, including a large leopard, many elephants (and some with tusks), deer, water buffalo and lots of bird life. Udayanga was very knowledgeable and had a knack for getting us in the right place at the right time. We were the 5th car into the park that morning and I expect the car with the best viewing spots all morning. A must do on your visit to Sri Lanka’s south!
Response from Host, May 2024
Hello Hannah, Greetings from Leopard Eye Safari, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We hope that you have had a wonderful and memorable experience on your safari. We look forward to an opportunity to welcome you again to our game drive. We look forward to it. Regards!!
Munirah_A, Feb 2024
very nice experience and we where the first safari jeep to enter the park. i highly recommend this. and the ranger was very kind and friendly and showed us everything around. and we saw the leopard after just 30 minutes from entering the park.
Response from Host, Feb 2024
Hello Munirah , Greetings from Leopard Eye Safari, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We hope that you have had a wonderful and memorable experience with your safari. We look forward an opportunity of welcoming you again to our game drive.We look gorward for an.. Regards!!
Kihulane, Dec 2023
The driver was friendly and shared information about the animals that we saw. Everything went well and we're glad that we took it.
Response from Host, Dec 2023
Hi Kihul, Greetings from Leopard Eye Safari, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We hope that you have had a wonderful and memorable experience with your safari. We look forward an opportunity of welcoming you again to our game drive. We look forward to.. Regards!!
SHIGEHIRO_N, Dec 2025
You will receive a confirmation email from the day before and a photo of your car to pick you up, so you can rest assured. It's early morning but you'll be picked up on time. The guide driver seemed very used to finding many animals. Unfortunately, we couldn't find the leopard because it was raining the night before, but the driver tried very hard to find it while keeping in touch with his fellow drivers.
The car shakes a bit because of the rough road, but I experienced a great view.
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Response from Host, Jan 2026
Greetings from Leopard Eye Safari, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We’re delighted to hear that you had a wonderful and memorable safari experience. It was our pleasure to have you on our game drive. We look forward to welcoming you again for another unforgettable adventure in the wild! Warm regards, Leopard Eye Safari Team
stephane_l, Jan 2022
J'ai fait la mauvaise expérience du parc national de Yala au Sri lanka ce jour. Et voici mon vécu : J'ai choisi la formule 4h dans l'après midi avec le groupe Viator et la société de safari Leopard Eye Safari!! Le choix du site de réservation VIATOR m'a semblé évident après une très bonne expérience en Égypte.
Cette fois la déception était au rendez-vous. Tout commence par l'accueil du chauffeur. A peine un bonjour, pas de présentation. on est parqué à l'arrière du pick up, une vitre nous sépare du chauffeur, très compliqué d'entendre ce qu'il dit, les peu de fois où il nous parle. Après 30 minutes de route, nous entrons à Yala.. Très peu d'explications ou d'anecdotes du guide/chauffeur, qui a son téléphone vissé à l'oreille. Après de longues minutes dans le parc, Nous croisons 2 éléphants. Le choc arrive quand une dizaine de jeeps se ruent sur l'emplacement. C'est une véritable bataille navale. Le moindre animal est pris d'assaut et encerclé par toutes ces voitures polluantes et brillantes.
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 La suite est digne du cauchemar des amoureux de la nature. Plus de 100 jeeps sont en file indienne arrêtées sur ce qui semble être une autoroute à 2 voies. Le bruit et la pollution dépassent celle de l'autoroute parisien.
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Nous avons passé 40 min à attendre dans cette file interminable, avançant mètre après mètre. Il y avait un local à pied au milieu qui faisait la circulation. Nous arrivons finalement à un point d'arrêt où, selon le guide, nous pouvons apercevoir un léopard. Il nous désigne un arbre touffu qui se trouve à au moins 1 kilomètre de là. Impossible d'identifier quoi que ce soit à l'œil nu. Nous utilisons nos jumelles. Après 5 minutes à chercher du regard dans les feuilles d'arbres, nous distinguons à peine une forme posée sur une branche.
Impossible de dire si il s'agit d'un léopard vivant, empaillé ou même d'un gnou ???? 😨
30 secondes d'observation, notre tour est passé, le garde au sol, nous fait signe de circuler. Le guide s'exécute.... Nous quittons '' l'autoroute ''. Le guide se retourne et nous demande si nous sommes satisfaits.... Choqués, nous sommes restés sans voix dans un premier temps, avant de clairement lui dire que nous pensions voir des animaux de plus près. Il nous a répondu que c'était très difficile et que nous avions de la chance de voir un léopard aujourd'hui.
Pour résumer, notre après midi: un défilé interminable de jeeps, de la pollution sonore et visuelle.
BILAN: ZÉRO LÉOPARDS, ZÉRO OURS.
Le guide nous a même culpabilisé en disant qu'il était impossible de voir des animaux sauvages en 4 heures, et qu'il fallait réserver la journée entière. MENSONGES : pendant nos interminables heures d'attente, nous avons croisés une autre jeep, une cliente suisse qui a commencé son Safari 10h plus tôt, le même jour, elle était dépitée et nous a avoué ne pas avoir vu le moindre léopard.
Le parc de Yala, les opérateurs et guides qui y travaillent, font de la COMMUNICATION MENSONGERE et font preuve de manque de professionnalisme et manque de respect envers la nature. ☢️☢️
Notre guide a claxonné une autre jeep en plein milieu du parc à 1 mètre d'un animal.
Nous sommes choqués et dégoutés par cette expérience. 50e/ personne jetés à la poubelle.
PIÈGE À TOURISTES : FUYEZ A TOUT PRIX .🏃🏃🏃
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Response from Host, Jan 2022
This review was reviewer misguided.we did our path best.he was wrote a terrible reviews for us.we did safari long weekend and park was very busy.after we explained station for our customers.he was understood about situation and he tried to delete Viator review and he can't delete it.
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