No guarantees on what animals, or how many you will see. Having said that, I have been on 10 safaris in Yala, and have always seen a great variety of animals - and on 8 of the 10, I have seen the big attraction animals (leopards, elephants, and bears). It helps to have en experienced ranger/guide with you who knows animal behavior and can identify alarm calls by monkeys and deer (indicating leopard presence), etc. The rangers at Wild Coast are exceptionally passionate and experienced and contribute greatly to the safari experience.

Hi there! We generally recommend a minimum 2-night stay as this gives you a little more time to experience the magic of Yala, as well as the activities we offer.

Hi Jess, certainly romantic and totally geared towards couples, it was February and not in any school holiday period. I presume their policy doesn’t prohibit children but we certainly didn’t see any whilst we were there.

We stayed recently, and found that the lodge game drives arrive at the ticket lodge/gate at around the same time as everyone else. It was the weekend when we were there and very busy - maybe 30 jeeps waiting for their tickets as we were. Once inside you can quickly forget the crowds, but as soon as a ‘star’ appears (in our case leopards) all hell breaks loose and we were in a queue of 30 or more exhaust fume spewing jeeps and tourists of varying degrees of respect for the animals (smoking for example). This was not the safari experience we expected, but through no fault of Wild Coast.