FIRST VISIT TO YALA FOR THE YEAR 2019.....

Surprisingly  my first visit to Yala for  2019 was in the 3rd week of June when I joined a group  constituting  wild life photographers which was organised by Rajiv Welikala who is a well known personality and a wild life enthusiast, working for Classic Travels  . It was a very well organised   and a comfortable trip as we stayed in a boutique hotel called KELE for 2 nights and the accommodation set up was quite good and the food was awesome.To top it off  the photography experience was also  pretty good as Rajiv arranged the safari trips quite well.

KELE

The bed room

Each Chalet has 3 rooms

 The restaurant lit up for the evening

Painted stock nesting

A crested Hawk Eagle finishing the remains of a bird

Sunbathing ...

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Being the month of June though expected it was very dry inside  the park ...

Quenching the thirst

These 2 Elephants were embroiled in a friendly tussle.

This Bear entertained us for some time eating the delicious PALU fruits which had fallen on to the main road..

Grey Headed Fish Eagle

Indian Paradise Flycatcher

Pied Kingfisher

 Common Kingfisher

Initially when we stopped we only saw the dead Rabbit and were wondering for about 20 seconds as to how it could have died and then only we saw the slight movement of the Python.

The daily team building exercises

According to GIMAL who is known as Leopard Gimal and has a good data base about the Leopards in Yala, this is EMMA one of the 2 cubs born in 2014 near Warahana area and we saw her drinking water near Warahana Bungalow around 5.45pm.