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.

Kithulgala is a popular travel destination situated at Colombo-Hatton road. It is famous among genera public as people come here for a bath at rapid Kelani River. And it is the only place in Sri Lanka where white water rafting is practiced.
Apart from all these Kithulgala has another value due to some waterfalls situated around. This is my attempt to cover waterfalls and some common travel destinations around Kithulgala.

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.

We start our journey from Mawanella around 8.00 a.m. Our aim was visit important places as much we can during the day. Because now we came to last part of our journey.

We start our journey from Matale & our next destination was Kandy. On that way we went to see “Hakkinda” area. After having some time there we went to Kandy.