Tissamaharama and Yala N.P.

Leaving Tangalle bus station	Colourful bus	Inside the bus to Tissamaharama	We arrive at Tissamaharama
Sri Lanka Transit Board red buses	A welcome pool at our hotel	Our hotel - Blue Turtle	Great to cool down in the pool
False bird of paradise	Peacocks everywhere	Relaxing on our balcony	Breadfruit tree
Spider	Veggie curry	Tissa Dagoba	Tissa Dagoba
Wee litter of puppies came out from under the tree, to say hello	Canals by the rice paddies	First game drive into Yala NP - line of jeeps waiting to get in	Jeeps heading into the park
Crested Serpent Eagle	Blue-tailed bee-eater	Green bee-eater	Spotted deer
Lots of jeeps, radioing for leopard or elephant sightings	Pete in the jeep	Herons	Painted heron (?)
Looking towards elephant rock	Elephant rock	Parakeets	Green bee-eater
Water buffalo	Water buffalo	Crocodile	Lovely water
Heron	Grey langur	Grey langur	Grey langur
Grey langur	Yala Block 5 - fewer jeeps - Spotted deer	Spotted deer	Elephant
Big tusks	Doesn't hang around too long	Cheerio	Lots of peacocks
Sea eagle	Another elephant	Elephant	Elephant
Weheragala Reservoir	Weheragala Reservoir	Lizard up in the tree	Lizard
Lizard	Water buffalo	Water buffalo	Brown Fish Owl
Brown Fish Owl	Brown Fish Owl	Weheragala Reservoir	Sea Eagle
Looking out for animals	Grey langur	Grey langur	Grey langur
Blue-tailed bee-eater	Green bee-eater	Pied Kingfishers	Pied Kingfisher
Green bee-eaters	Herons	Herons	Spotted deer
Spotted deer	Crowned Hawk Eagle	Lizard	Mongoose- saw lots but they're too quick to photograph
Elephants by the road	This elephant has got someone's rice	It stamped on the metal container to get at the rice	It wasn't concernd by us
Just enjoying it's food	Yum	Checking out the rest of it's haul	Another elephant was eating the foliage
A different day, a different elephant in the road	It was almost sleeping...	...and didn't bother when our jeep driver backed up	Beautiful animal
Peacock showing off	Kingfisher	Crested Serpent Eagle	Parakeets
Below the dam	Green bee-eater	Weheragala Dam Sluice Gates	Muddy paths
Elephants	Elephants	Dead civet cat	Elephants on the road again
Scratching himself with a stick	Itch under his chin	He wasn't bothered about us	You can never have too many photos of elephants
Then another one comes along...	...and walks stright passed us	Cheerio then