Get up at 4:30 today and prepare to leave at 5:00 a.m. to Yala (Yala) National Park, located on the southeast coast of the island nation, with an area of 979 square kilometers slightly smaller than Hong Kong. There is an all-wild ecosystem here, which is completely different from the so-called safari parks that are stocked in the country. Perhaps, Africa's wildlife is also spectacular, but the animals in one place are relatively single, and here, it is the world's most spectacular and abundant animal paradise.
Yesterday, the safari jeep that the driver contacted was the same as the price of the minimum 6500 rupees / car written in the homestay, which is the same price as the vehicle, 6 seater car, sitting 1 person and sitting 6 people the same price. The car is a modified big jeep or the like, the car is very cool and wild.
Before 5:00, the jeep was already waiting in the homestay, and the owner of the homestay had prepared for us the breakfast ordered last night, a delicate straw basket, and an early breakfast for three people. Three large bottles of mineral water; three sticks/pack of 3 bananas; 4 triangular toasts with omelettes/packs, which are actually 2 toasts with omelettes, and the cut is 4, which is also three servings. The price of breakfast is 600 rupees / person, counting 23 yuan / person, it is not cheap, but the surrounding area is wilderness, and it can only be so. There is also a family staying in the homestay to go to the safari park, which is also a car, and it is dark when it leaves.
When you get to the outer area of the safari park, the ticket office is already full of people, the ticket is 4,000 rupees per person (153 yuan), usually give the money to the jeep driver, who will help you buy it.
Yala National Park (Safari Park) is the only primitive wild jungle park in All of Asia, not the kind of artificial free-range wildlife park in China, such as Shanghai Wildlife Park, which is to move animals together, divide areas, and regularly feed at fixed points. Yala National Wildlife Park, or Yala National Park, is completely wild. There is a relatively complete biological chain in the park, from the large Ceylon leopard at the top to the small animals, from herbivores to carnivores, etc., each biological level has a fixed number of groups to maintain a higher level of biota.
After buying a ticket, you have to drive a long way to really get inside the safari park. The so-called jeeps, in fact, are all modified by pickup trucks, the cab has only two seats, the back is modified into three rows of 6 seats, the step arrangement, the rear row is the highest, the park is crushed into a very deep rut of the loess road, bumps up to be shaken up feeling, and, as soon as the car passes, it is rolling red dust.
Yala National Park is the second largest national nature reserve in Sri Lanka, after Villepotu National Park. The jeep will usually take you to the park for 3 hours (in and out of the park), excluding the road after leaving the park.
Can find to see, how many animals, both depend on your luck; but also depend on the driver's conscience, for example, our driver is better, will deliberately turn into a fork in the road, tell us, that there are often leopards on the mountain rock out of the sun, I see that other cars basically did not turn in at that time; and when it was found that there were leopards chasing sika deer on the other side of the pond, he turned around and took us to drive past, waiting at a small intersection, so, here, the character of the driver encountered should also be tight, and the driver who carried us was very dedicated and happy. Sincerely provided us with good service.
The car enters the park, it is the driver who takes the tourists to look for animals on both sides of the left and right, because the ruts on both sides, the roadbed is low, and in order to find the animals in the forest as much as possible, the car is driven on the side of the road, sitting on the car, the car is completely tilted sideways to the side, and later got used to it. The first thing found were the birds on the branches of the roadside, and the driver said "Green bird", the green bird, while pointing at it.
There are the most wild buffalo in the jungle.
The long-legged heron specializes in eating parasitic insects and other insects on cattle, which is also the biological chain of nature!
The wild survival ability of cattle is very strong, remember, the East Island of the Paracel Islands is only 1.55 square kilometers, and there are nearly 500 bison that have been scattered by a family of cattle. Because there is no complete biological chain of natural elimination, there is no natural enemy, the bison over-breeds, the population expands, the woodland grass is robbed of everything, the bark and branches of the trees are eaten, and the in the trees are alarmed, causing the birds to fall to their deaths, and the garrison has to slaughter the bison and control the number, which not only improves the food but also protects the ecology of the island. In this wildlife park, there are wild buffalo activities almost where there are ponds, and the bison here is completely a link in the entire biological chain, and the number of populations and the physique of the bison are completely the result of natural elimination selection.
Green peacock
If you look closely, you will find that the wild peacock has no captive peacock fat body at all, and this peacock has the feeling of a flying pheasant.
Peacocks that flew up the trees
Peacock opened the screen.
The male peacock that can open the screen naturally, any species in the animal world, has its own twelve points of reason. For example, the bridge of the human nose, the original white people originally lived in high latitudes, cold and dry environment, the need for a slender and towering nose to increase the nasal volume, so that the cold air and the nasal mucosa full contact after warming and humidification, thousands of generations, naturally evolved into a long and high nose bridge; if they live in the tropics, millions of years later, the evolution of the nose, may become a flat short black nose appearance, wide nose wings and nasal roots can be more, faster inhalation of tropical air with little difference from body temperature, Lamarck's" There is a reason for the use of "in and out of retreat"!
Peacock open screen is definitely not full of food and nothing to do and tease you to play, you are not qualified to play with him yet! Peacock opening the screen naturally has its "grand sounding" reason.
Between April and May, the peacock feathers in the breeding season will be renewed, the male bird opens its beautiful wings and tail screen, follows the female bird around, in order to win the female bird's favor, just like you see your girlfriend go, you need to dress up handsome; also, the peacock open screen is a defensive response, when the peacock encounters an animal that violates it, it will open the screen to warn the enemy, just like the hedgehog opens the thorn is a defense, open the huge tail screen, that is to scare you! In the zoo, the loud laughter of tourists and bright costumes may stimulate the peacock to open the screen, which is a vigilant and defensive action. Do you think that if you wrap a beautiful turban in front of your peacock brother, he will be more beautiful than you and open the beautiful tail screen? That's because you think too much, he ignores your self-indulgence! The peacock opening the screen is actually a demonstration of the animal world or the law of the male world, just like the male show muscles, in front of the female to show the strong arm, is to show the male charm; in front of the opponent to show the strong arm, is to deter the opponent. Peacocks simply maintain the inherent laws of the animal world in their own unique way.
I don't know what kind of animal this is. The jeep driver's vernacular, a little but completely colored English, communication difficulties, did not ask too much. After returning to China, I asked the Sri Lankan driver through WeChat, and he Googled out to tell me that this is Mongoose (mongoose), but I Baidu came out to call the gray badger (Indian gray badger), from the picture comparison, it should be the gray badger, this animal has the ability to kill poisonous snakes, it is said that it can subdue cobras.
The driver threw the banana we gave him to eat, and the animal came and took it. There is a rule in the garden that people are not allowed to feed food.
The park is full of laterite dirt roads, and there will be a lot of gray soil on the way, so before you leave from China, you must bring a hat, mask, turban or something in your suitcase, remember!
The sika deer on the opposite side of the pond should be under the Ceylon leopard in its food chain, of course, it has become the target of the leopard hunting.
The driver said that this was the sika deer family, and then a leopard appeared to chase the deer herd, which was swift and too far away, the mobile phone could not be photographed, and the SLR camera was captured.
Drilling into the thorny bushes, the leopard can not leap to chase, bite and kill, which is a good way for sika deer to avoid predators.
The branches perched, and only two long feathered tails were seen, which were said to be the national bird of Sri Lanka, the black-tailed proto-chicken. Pairs of pairs are not only the black-tailed original chickens in front of you, but also told people in "Shu Dao Difficulty" that birds are monogamous relationships in which "males fly females from around the forest". I think that in the cognition of bird specificity, Li Bai Youmu knew it earlier than ornithologists? Scientists later learned from research that about 90% of birds follow monogamy, and Li Bai has long known the honey of "male flying female from" to stay together, then, here is still a move, for Li Bai to praise it, hehe!
Perhaps because of the by-product of the invasion of the great powers, the Yala National Park area was recognized as a protected area as early as 1900, and in 1938, together with the largest Vila patu National Park, it has been recognized as a national park for more than a hundred years.
Yala National Park consists of five areas, but only two of them are open to the public. The first area, called Ruhuna National Park, also known as Siara, is the main area to see Ceylon leopards and elephants, and is also the most visited place, which is where we went.
Elephants in complete wild are quite different from those in elephant orphanages that have been domesticated, and the latter have become accustomed to the manipulation of humans.
Wild elephants in the natural state, in fact, are not easy to see, I have been to the Wild Elephant Valley in Banna, Yunnan, where only when I am lucky, I can occasionally see a few wild elephants, which can only be seen when managers put salt in relevant ponds or bury salt in the road section to attract wild elephants. Elephants are very sensitive to the taste of salt, and when they smell salt, they will use their noses to roll salt into their mouths as a delicacy, while the wild elephants here are really living without any means of inducement.
So many cars are gathered together to see the wild crocodiles in the pond, not the kind of domestic captive!
The driver said it was a crocodile baby.
The little crocodile that did not know the height of the sky came out to breathe
Dedicated drivers deliberately turned into this place because leopards often came out to bask in the sun on the mountain rock, and other cars rarely came in. Here, it is very important to meet a dedicated and conscientious driver. Facing the mountain rock, it is conceivable that the Ceylon leopard lying on the rock will have the momentum of the King's Landing. Among so many cars, one other car also turned in, and all the others did not come in. Although we did not meet the leopard here in the end, we felt the driver's sincere service heart. Later, I saw the scene of the leopard chasing the sika deer in a pond, but unfortunately, the leopard suddenly passed through, startling the sika deer to scatter and flee, and it was too late to shoot.
The driver took out his Huawei mobile phone and showed us a picture of the leopard he had taken.
After returning to China, the Ceylon leopard photographed by the Sri Lankan driver in Yala National Park was specially sent to us on WeChat.
The car, which has been wandering around for more than two hours, will take you to the woods by the beach, where there is a WC where you can take a break, and this arrangement seems to have become an unclear rule.
This cool look, is there such a shadow of a western cowboy?
The Indian Ocean is on the edge of the park, and the beach view is absolutely incredible!
The care of God makes the coast of this island nation full of white waves chasing beaches.
Jeeps are constantly looking for animals in the park, so drivers sometimes don't drive to grab a better observation position, and the process of other cars is the process of the driver and the tourists hi-hi, it seems that they have to catch up with others.
On the way back, I saw the bird in this tree, with long tail feathers, and I didn't know what it was called.
From the perspective of vegetation, here are mainly shrubs, fine leaf plants, almost no broad-leaved forest, geographically speaking, the tropical monsoon climate is divided into dry seasons and rainy seasons, these plants to survive the dry season, can only be shrubs, fine leaf plants mainly. The rainy season is from May to August and from November to February every year, so if you come to the island at this time, remember to bring your rain gear!
When I came back, I saw wild buffalo and a long-legged heron that was always helping the cow peck at the insects on its body, which was a harmonious link in the food chain.
Three hours into the park gate and out of the park gate, the driver can pay the errand, which should also be an unwritten contract between the driver and the tourist. Anyway, you look after the watch yourself, and you can count it in your heart.
Back at the homestay, I originally wanted to eat lunch there and then leave, but I said that I would have to wait for two hours, what is the efficiency? Then check out and leave. For online bookings, the price is 30.89 US dollars, pay 5500 rupees, or 210 yuan. On the side of the road that came out of the yellow dirt, large lizards were also found.
In the car, we told the driver that we didn't like to eat buffets and the like, and we should look for the kind of restaurants with menus. Eat the buffet, the price is not cheap (if you take the guests, the driver can eat for free), and the dishes in the buffet are all paste-like curry dishes with spicy.
Lunch on the day is served at a restaurant in Tisser, where both buffet and menu options can be served. We ordered seafood fried rice, chicken noodle soup, muffin drinks for a total of 3366 rupees, less than 130 yuan, where the buffet was 1000 rupees per person.
If you want to ask me, how much money should be brought to Sri Lanka travel, eat according to this standard, you can calculate it yourself, as for the hotel, chartered car and other fees, are booked online, credit card payment, this large amount of money naturally does not have to be carried.