All blocks of Yala to be opened! For tourism...

All five blocks at Yala to be opened – Minister Chandrasena

by Franklin R. Satyapalan

With the increase in the number of local and foreign tourists visiting Sri Lanka’s wild life parks, the government has decided to open all five blocks of the Yala National park for visitors so that they could spend several days within the park and go bird watching to Kumana and Lahugala in the East, said Minister of Agrarian Services and Wild Life S. M. Chandrasena on Monday (27).

The Minister who toured the Yala National Park from the Palapatuna entrance in the south, accompanied by Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to the Maldives Dixon Dela, last week said that the new entrance from the Galge side of the Ruhunu (Yala) National Park had been opened for visitors by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in February this year.

The other new entry point to the Ruhunu (Yala) National Park would be opened from the Katagamuwa side shortly, the Minister said.

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