This beautiful plain called Padupola is situated beyond spiky Hegasulla and closer to Randenigala rock. This our journey to Padupola plain.

NWP has been giving us ample opportunities to experience the beauty of the dry zone and few giants were providing the foundation for our dreams.

Dehigahalanda (620m) can be considered as the eastern edge of Sabaragamuwa mountain range. This is belong to ” I saw, I conquered” type of mountains in my list.

කතා කරගත්ත විදියටම අපි හවස 6.45 ට කොලඹින් මහ ඔය හරහා අම්පාර බස් එකට නගින්න ගමනට කතා උන මම ( කාවින්ද ) ,රෝශන සහ චිරාන් මල්ලි ලෑස්ති උනා.උදේ එනකොටම ගෙනියන්න ඕන බඩු මුට්ටු ඔක්කොම බෑග් එකටත් දාගෙන මම ආව වගේම රෝශනත් ඒ විදියටම කරල තිබුන ගමනේ අනිත් සගය වෙච්ච ලක්මාල් මහියංගණයෙන් අපි එන බස් එකට නගින්න කතා වෙලා හිටපු නිසා එයත් බදුල්ලෙන් ටයිම් බලල මහියංගණය ට එන්න කතා උනා.

Waduwawa was one of my friends home village. Ever since I had heard about the lovely area from him I always wanted to pay a visit. Early morning after finishing a quick hike to Yogamu kanda we started to explore along the Polgahawela – Narammala road which ran through Waduwawa.

Karagahathenna mini world’s end is a hidden paradise situated at the edge of an abounded tea estate. It provides a superb view towards North central province of Sri Lanka.

Hegasulla (1205m) is a pointed mountain situated in VRR (Victoria- Randenigala-Rantambe) reserve closer to Randenigala reservoir.People say the Lord Buddha has come to place his sacred foot print on top of this mountain but villagers at Theripaha were working at paddy fields on the poya day. Then he has changed his mind and placed the sacred foot print on Sri Pada.

In 2017 I went passing Dambulla many times and on all of those occasions I was wondering if I could get a birds eye view of Dambulla from Dambulla rock.

It was a gloomy day but we wanted to go somewhere and decided to head towards Polgahawela and climb the highest peak of the region which was Yogamukanda.

I discussed this with my friend at Nuwaraeliya and we planned to visit this on June 2017. As he got information we used Hewenakumbura road near to Keppettipola junction at Badulla-Nuwaraeliya road. Then we came near to the mountain by asking the information from the villagers. Then at a point we met the useful person who has been there a month ago. He showed us the footpath where it started. Hence we parked our bicycles and started the hike.

We were able to explore some hidden waterfalls in between Knuckles 5 peaks foot path and Kandasamigala. Our journey started from Gomaraya town and proceed along the road goes to Knuckles View Holiday Bungalow and Knuckles Plantation Bungalow. Then we go to the end of the road and entered to the forest along a water stream. Then we climbed the Kandasamigala and got down to the upper part of the stream which we followed at the beginning.

First I visit to “Kadiragala Raja Maha Viharaya”. This temple built by “King Walagamba”. Ancient stupaya situated on the rock. From there you can get the nice view of surrounding area. I spent nearly one hour there & came back to Wariyapola town. From there I went to “Kebella Len Raja Maha Viharaya”. This temple also built by “King Walagamba” & situated on the rock.
Climbing was very difficult due to very hot weather.