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.

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.

We start our journey from Sigiriya & our next destination was Matale. On that way we went to see “Nalanda Gedige” & Matale “Alu Viharaya”

We left from Anuradhapura around 8.00 a.m & reached to Jathika Namal Uyana around 9.00 a.m. We spent couple of hours there & came back to entrance around 11.30 a.m. From there we went to Ibbankatuwa Wewa. We had good bath there & we left to see Ibbankatuwa Megalith Cemetery. Now this place developed & maintain nicely.

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.

Kalubowitiyana is a mountain situated between Kalubowitiyana and Dewalegama Villages. When I and my friend travel around Neluwa area we saw this mountain on the way and it was looks like SripadayaSoon after I saw a photo of this mountain in a FB group. After few weeks we planned this hike since friend of my friend is in Dellawa and he was able to have a well-known guide for this mountain.

මාතලේ, මහනුවර සහ නුවරඑළිය දිස්්ත්‍රික්කවල පිහිටි රටේ උස් කඳුකර භූමිය දකුණින් ඌව පළාතින් අවසන් වේ. එය වචනයේ අර්ථයෙන්ම දැක බලා ගත හැකි කදිම ඉසව්ව වනුයේ බෙලිහුල්ඔය සිට හපුතලේට යන විට මාර්ගයේ දකුණු පස පිහිටි විශාල​ හෙල ඔස්සේ විහිදුණු පහත් බිම්ය. බෙරගලින් එහාට බදුල්ල දක්වා දිවෙන ඌව පළාත් මායිම ආසන්නයේ සුන්දර ඉසව් රාශියක් පිහිටා ඇත. විශේෂයෙන් මෙම පළාතේ තිබෙන කඳු මතට පහත් බිම් හරහා ගමන් කරන වලාකුළු හා මීදුම හරි අපූරුවට දැක ගත හැකිය. ඌව පළාතේ පවතින කඳු අතරින් උසින් සය වෙනි තැන ගන්නා නාරංගල කන්ද ද එවැනි කදිම ඉසව්වකි.

We arrived to Anuradhapura around 4.00 p.m on 16th evening. First we had little rest & then we visit to “Mirisawetiya Viharaya”. Next we went to “Isrumuniya Viharaya” & “Ran Masu Uyana”.

The Shaheen Mountain is located near the hotel. It’s a 2 Km Hike from the Hotel and provides an Ella rock hike like experience and view from the peak. On the way we can visit the Upper Hunnas waterfall too. The mountain was named as Shaheen mountain by the hotel as it is one of the nesting site of the Shaheen Falcon.

On 15th morning we left from Kalankuttiya & first we visit Awkana Viharaya. After that we had little rest at “Kala Wewa”. After visiting “Vijithapura Viharaya” we came to Galkulama via Maradankadawala.