Udawalawe to Yala

A leisurely start for a change but still up early. After breakfast a car met us and drove us to the Yala Safari Camping Meeting Point aka, a spot at the side of the road. It was raining fairly heavily and there was no one to meet us. We sat a while in the car with the driver, feeling a little awkward and the next thing we knew our bag was being loaded into a jeep and we were climbing on board.

The jeep set off down a wet, muddy path into the jungle. The journey took about 20 minutes and we arrived at our destination.
We climbed out and into a restaurant pavilion. We were given welcome drinks and then sat for 2 hours. After 2 hours I asked if we could go to our room and we were escorted through the rain and mud, down a steep staircase, to our tent.

We quickly sorted ourselves out and then headed back up the steps to find lunch was finally ready. It was tasty. After lunch we got back in the jeep and went on our first safari to Yala Block 5.

We saw some birds and got back to camp at 7.15pm to be told dinner was in 30 minutes. After a quick change we sat down to dinner to be served fish. We reminded them, again, we were vegetarian and a few minutes later we were presented with over cooked French fries, a pile of rice and potatoes. We ate what we could and went to bed.Read more