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From the Sunday Times 27 Dec 2020 Out of Africa in our wilds By Yomal Senerath-Yapa Continuing our series on the Bawa award shortlist, we feature a five star safari camp in Yala View(s): 335 The architect: Olav Bruin Palatupana used to be one of the ‘climaxes’ of Yala. After the long safari drive through dry jungle, the landscape broke into haunting sand dunes and a wild boulder-strewn beach where you got down at dimming dusk for a ‘stretch’ and to read the sands for the roll-call of creatures from leopard and elephant to pangolin.  Cradled near the national park in the same beach today like a mixed herd of elephant and heron from the sky is the Wild Coast tented lodge – the first of its kind in Sri Lanka. The elegant menagerie of structures forms a five star safari camp in the wild Ruhunu country. When Olav Bruin and ...