Exploring Yala National Park - Sri Lanka

This video is brought to you in part by the Sri Lanka Tourism Board. All right, so now we're entering the national park. That was the beginning of the national park. All right, so we have a land monitor right here. Nah, he's not an iguana, he's a land monitor. This thing can kill you. Look at him, he's coming, he's coming. Okay, so here's our first big crocodile. He's right there, you can see his head. Literally right there. What type of crocodile is it? It's a max, max crocodile. Max crocodile, okay. Whoa, no, no, no, look at this guy, look at this guy. Beautiful bird. What's the name of this bird? Plantaristoc. Plantaristoc. And what he's doing right now is he's looking for frogs. That's what he eats. All right, there's an elephant over here. I hardly can see it. Where is it? Where is it? I barely see it. Okay, so the elephant is literally right in front of us. See him? Yeah, I see him moving. He's eating but he doesn't want to come out. There's like a hundred cars here parked to see. Waiting for him. Budapest, so this is a fruit here in Sri Lanka. It's very hard like a coconut. You break it, you open it, and then you eat it. All right, so right here on this tree we have two monkeys. We have two monkeys on this tree. A family. A family, okay, so look. Whoa, whoa, whoa, look at him run, look at him run. What type of monkey is it? Grayling. Black-faced grayling. The elephant is right there, obviously. Wow, and then right back there is elephant rock, right there, that big rock. Whoa. All right, so this is the end of our day, our first day in right now. Today we saw everything from crocs to wild boar. What else did we see? We saw birds, we saw deer, and we saw a variety of different animals, but the only thing that we're missing right now is a leopard. We have not seen one leopard, and the reason is because if they hear a car, they run. So it's very difficult to see a leopard. It shouldn't be so difficult because this is the most, the densest place in the world for leopards, so the most leopards in the world are here, and we also got a chance to see some elephants, mainly in distance. They're very far, so the shots in the video weren't so good because they were extremely far. The one that was close, it was like, I'd say 10 feet away, but it was in the shrubs, so you couldn't really see it, like there was too many branches in the way. I just saw his trunk waving around, and yeah, so tomorrow we're going on another safari. Hello everyone, so it's August 7th right now. It's 5.20 in the morning. We're going on a morning safari. This is the first safari of the day, so they have one in the morning at 5.30 and then one in the afternoon at 2.30, so just get ready to get up early. Hopefully we see the leopards, and hopefully we get up close with elephants. That's really what I want to see. I want to get right up into their jaw. All right, so our jeep pretty much broke down. Oh my god. We had to jump in another jeep, and now we're off to find some leopards. We're trying to get some leopards, to see some leopards, but it's very difficult. What time do the leopards usually come out? Maybe morning or so, evening or so, come back. So what time is it? 8 o'clock. So we still have about half an hour to see if we see some leopards. I mean hopefully we see some leopards. I came across the world for a leopard. All right, so here's a family of deer right here. We've seen too many deers. There's about a few thousand deer here, and that's what the leopards eat. So he was saying that if you see deers, you won't see leopards. They're going to be at least 500 meters away, which is, I don't know how many meters. Times three, so 1,500 feet away. All right, so here's another land monitor. What is this, an Indian roller? Indian roller. All right, so we're leaving Yalo National Park right now. We're done with this morning safari. We didn't see any leopards. It was extremely difficult. There was one point where everybody was parked in the middle of the street because they saw the leopards in the distance, but they didn't actually cross the road, and the old man couldn't get to anything. I didn't see a leopard. We also didn't see any elephants. This is a bumpy ride, by the way. We didn't see any elephants, but definitely try to make it out here when you come. Try to do the morning and after this safari. It's the best way to do both. So far, we saw more animals. In the morning, we didn't see that many, but it's a great experience. All right, now we're going back to the hotel.