This is a short account of remain structures belong to Nanu Oya-Ragala narrow gauge railway line, called Udupussallawa Railway Track (UPR).

I had already walked from Naththandiya to Puttalam along the railways and I wanted to extend the hike northwards till the last passenger station which was Periyanaga villu.

There is an interesting mountain range close to Miyallewa and Nawagaththegama which harbors few archaeological sites. We were focused on the highest point of the range and the historical Pichchandiyawa traditional medicine school was at its base.

It was a gloomy period and we wanted to go somewhere so we decided to head towards the dry zone. The mountain we wanted to climb was never seen before and was a totally new experience to us.

Hawarimana is a peak situated at Upper border of Knuckles massif. It is bordered by Karagahathenna, Gammaduwa, Sandamadala, Karagahathenna Mini World’s end and Hinguruwatta Mountain. Hawarimana has unusual appearance. It has two peaks with saddle like a gap.

It was the last day of 2017 and we wanted to go somewhere. The dry zone mountains around Dambulla were in our priority list so we headed towards Dambulla and planned to hike Yakkuragala with the aid of maps.

‘‘සොබාසිරි’’ අපි යනු හුදෙක් විනෝදයකට ක්‍රියාදාම සංචාර යන්නවුන් පිරිසක් නොවෙයි. සෑම ගමනක්ම අපට ගවේෂණයකි. මන්ද මිනිස් පහස නොලද, කාලයේ වැලිතලාවෙන් වසං වූ අතිශය දුෂ්කර කඳු, දියඇලි, ගුහා සොයාගෙන යන අපේ සංචාරක දිවිය යනු දුෂ්කර බව, අවදානම හා උද්​ෙ‌යා්ගය සපිරි ක්‍රියාදාම චාරිකාවකි. සංචාරක ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ අතිබහුතරය පවා දැන සිටියේ ‘‘කිරිගල්පොත්ත’’ නම් වූ කන්ද හෝර්ටන් තැන්නේ ඇති ලංකාවේ දෙවන උසම කන්ද ලෙසය. ඒ හැර තවත් කිරිගල්පොත්ත නම් ලද කන්දක් නකල්ස් වනයේ සැඟව ඇති බව අති බහුතරය නොදැන සිටියේ සැබවින්ම මීට පෙර කිසිදු සංචාරකයකු දුම්බර වනයේ සිව් වැනියට උසම කිරිගල්පොත්ත (1648) තරණය නොකළ හෙයිනි. සමස්ත දුම්බර වනයේම අතිශය සංවේදී වලාකුළු වනාන්තර ඉසව්ව සොයා ගිය දුෂ්කර ගමන මෙසේ දිග හරින්නෙමි.

A Gloomy period but I wanted to get away and Keshan also wanted to go somewhere. I suggested a rocky mountain which is clearly seen to the A10 road close to Weuda which I have noted on many instances. Though we could have climbedup from Waraddana side we thought of climbing up from an easier side.

Last May when we did Duwili ella trail from Etanwala we met few of our friends who decided to get down from Ranamure side and they sent me the Kmz for my future references.

ගල් කුට්ටියක මානව මුහුණක් නෙළීමට ගත් ලාංකේය උත්සාහය මීට වසර ගණනකට පෙර දිවයයි. ගල්පිටියාය පුද්ගලික වතු සමාගමේ උඩවේරිය දෙසට එනම් උතුරු – ඊසාන මායිමේ පිහිටි ගලපිටිගල නම් ගල් කුට්ටිය වන සංරක්‍ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට අයත් වස්තුවකි. දේශීය විදේශීය සංචාරකයන්ගේ අවධානය තවමත් යොමුව නැති මෙම ස්ථානය පුරාවිද්‍යාත්මක බවින් වැදගත් ස්ථානයක් ලෙස ගවේෂණය කළේ ආචාර්ය රාජ් සෝමදේව මහතා විසිනි.

Sandamadala is a mountain situated at the northern border of knuckles massiff. We planned this hike during a dry day. We travelled to Naula via Kandy and Matale and then we turned to Elahera road and again turned to Opalgala road at Ambana junction.

Hike started from the back of the resort and we climbed the nearby small mountain through the rubber estate and reached to a summit and we could see up to the Colombo harbor over there. After that we walked along the rocky plain and met the mentioned water spring. It was covered by bricks and pipe lines attached to the nearby villages. After that we got down to another side and walked about 1 km through the dry forest. Again we reached to a rubber estate and met the stream which creates Algama waterfall. We walked 200 along the stream and stopped at Algama waterfall for a while.Again we walked to the left side rubber estate and reached to a Banana planting estate where the last house of this situated in Nilvalagala Mountain. Nilvalagala Mountain is about 150m height Mountain and we reached to the summit with in minutes. After that guide took us to the ridge of the mountain and we got down to the rocks by sitting on the rocky plain. And we reached to an open cave and walked 10m towards the opposite side where the dead end located.