The 2nd to the 19th
of June I went on a business trip to Sri Lanka to visit our office located in
Colombo. As I was working normal hours I had the weekend by myself. I looked
into any activities I could do during the down time, and fairly quickly I
realized that Sri Lanka had a national park down south with quite a lot of
wildlife. Apparently they have one of the highest densities of leopards in the
world.
So the choice was basically made for me,
so the two weekends of the 9th – 10th and the 16th
– 17th I got up early Saturday, drove to Yala National Park and
arrived at lunch time (I had a driver, no way I was to drive by myself in Sri
Lanka. It is said that the only place worse driving than Sri Lanka is India,
and that says quite a lot!), had lunch and a game drive, back to the camp where
dinner was served, relaxation until the next morning where we had an early game
drive, back for breakfast and ending with being brought to a pickup point where
I would then be driven back to Colombo. It was two fantastic weekends to get
away from the city’s intensity.
The first weekend I was alone in the camp
and the second a colleague joined me after seeing the photos I had taken on the
first trip and also an English couple joined us.
Apparently, while we are out on the second
weekend’s morning drive, a large male leopard came straight through our camp
between my tent and the next in the row. It could have been interesting if it
had happened when I was still present in the camp.
Young land monitor.
Tufted gray langur.
Jungle fowl.
Water buffalo and egret.
Kingfisher.
Wild boars and the park's only (known) albino boar.
Leopard in the dusk.
Sloth bear.
White-bellied sea eagle.
Toque macaque monkey.
Jackal.
Orange-breasted green pigeon.
Leopard.
Lizard
Small snake visiting camp.
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