It's not easy to end the journey of Yala. Because there are so many things to see. But looks like forests were reduced because of human actions.
But still, it's a shade for many animals. Especially elephants, tigers, and bears. We traveled more hours in the forest to see a tiger. We were not that much lucky. They hiding somewhere in the deep forest.
"Look at there. It's thunpath rana.."
our driver said near buthawa tank. Two elephants and a calf ate grass at the end of the tank. When people saw these three they called it as 'thunpath rana"
"Do you know Who's thunpath rana exactly?"
Driver asked again when we looked at elephants.
"As my knowledge, It should be two 'cows' and a calf,''
I answered.
"Exactly.. some people think It's a bull, cow, and calf as a family. But it's wrong. calf, Calf mother and another female family member.."
The driver explained further..
We left from the buthawa tank and go towards. A couple of foxes cross the road slowly in front of us. They looking for something like food or someone to cheat.
"This place called pattiyawala.."
Our guide said near the small tank. It's full of aquatic birds. Different types of herons tried to catch a fish. All of them were migratory birds. So they must be shared their travel story with each other.
After a few minutes, we said goodbye to migratory birds and left.
We arrived 'Uraneeya kalapuwa' after fifteen minutes later. On the way, I saw a tree looks like covered up by snow.
''That's a tree called 'kukul katu tree'.'' our guide explained. It's a thorn tree (katu). It's covered with small white color nuts. I saw those nuts as snow flakes.
''Look at the kalapuwa... There is a number of elks''.
Guide finger point far away corner at the kalapuwa. We saw a few animals resting there and we thought it's bulls. But guide words explained that we were wrong. I never thought elks live there.
''Looks like three elks sat there.''
We enjoyed the view with pleasure.
We lost our faith to see t bear and tiger. But able to see a different kind of animals. We must protect the Yala not only for the animals but for our future generation too. When you visit there keep that in your mind.
Goodbye Yala. Hope to come again.
