This marker in the lighthouse compound is for the southern most tip of the island.
Cool and inviting waters next the lighthouse.
Visitors to Block 1 of Yala National Park will be brought here for their pee break and loosening up. As it happened a little after 0900 hrs on 26 Dec 2004, the first wave of the Tsunami lashed up here. The building housing a rest area for the rangers and visitors was washed away, the foundation of which is still visible. A total of 46 people died or were washed away. They were of Japanese, German and Sri Lankan origins. The G has erected a memorial here to remember those who perished that day.
This rock, which is well photographed, lies next to the site where the Yala National Park Tsunami Memorial is.
One of the ten tusked elephants in the park of a total population of about 200. This chap is about 15 years old. Elephants here are smaller than their cousins in S Africa.
A buffalo and a crocodile doing their own thing. The colour of the croc is due to the muddy waters!
"Elephant Rock" in Block 1, Yala National Park.
The entrance to Yala.
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