1/5/2019 - Sri
Lanka Day 6
Yala Safari
On a no planned program Saturday, a few of us decided to go to one of Sri Lanka’s safari. This is an extra program which we need to pay for our own spending. After inquiring about the price and time required, we hired a private taxi to pick us up at 10pm the night before for a 7 hour drive, wait and return. The ride in the car is like a Six Flag ride, wheeling through Sri Lankan mountain after mountain. The 7 hour ride turns out to be 4 hour and we arrived 2:30am at Yala Safari, the south east of Sri Lanka and we slept in the car til 5:00am and hop on a Jeep who take us in the safari. Oh my.... this Jeep ride is really something... this Jeep driver is very aggressive and fierce. When his phone ring, it means they got information of where the animal appeared. The thing about safari is that animals are appearing by chance. Luck is of an essence. These 30/40 some Jeep drivers race to jammed into that little route where a leopard climbed up the tree for a quick nap, most of the time he drove off road to squeeze in for a better position. We are bouncing up and down through the sand/mud road on the Jeep without any safety belt available to bucket up... talk about how dusty we are when we wipe our face and wash out clothes, mud-like!
First time safari visitor, we got to see a few elephants... walking right in front of our eyes, kicking it’s leg on the sand and his little buddy friend - a buddy, always accompanying him.
The black-face monkey family, we can easily observed the hierarchy of the family where the leader stay at the edge of the road and directly the other family members to cross the road and the females carrying the babies and the leader go last.
We also get to see the buffalos bathing in the water to ease the 30 some Celsius heat. There are quite a lot of peacocks, cranes, birds that I don’t even know the names are swirling in the air over us. 
Discovery/National Geographic channel is live in my eyes. I thank God for His creation, the harmonic of nature among animals and human achieving in this place. Leave the jungle as home for the animal.
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