This is the ultimate wildlife day tour from Colombo, a pre-dawn departure that puts you on the ground in Yala National Park at first light, when the park’s wildlife is at its most active and the chances of leopard sightings are at their highest. Yala’s Block 1 is one of the most wildlife-rich patches of land in South Asia, and your open jeep safari is guided by an expert naturalist who knows the terrain, the animals and their behaviours intimately. In addition to leopards, for which Yala holds one of the highest density records in the world, you may encounter herds of elephants, sloth bears, crocodiles at the water’s edge, spotted deer, wild boar and hundreds of bird species across the park’s diverse mosaic of scrub jungle, grassland and coastal lagoon.