Thoranakotha is a mountain situated at back drop of Ayagama town. It is about 860 m in height and can be climbed from Thoranagoda village.

ගල්පොත්තැන්න ග්රාම නිලධාරී වසමට අයත් නන්පේරියල් ප්රදේශයට ආසන්නතම නගරය බෙලිහුල් ඔය වේලනන්පේරියල් වතු යායේ කොටස් හතරක ගම්මාන හතරක ජනයා ජීවත්වන අතර ඔවුන්ගෙන් කොටස් 3ක් පමණ සිටින්නේ හතරවටින් කඳු වලින් වටවූ මහා පාතාලයකය. ඊට අමතරව පිහිටි නැග්රැක් ගම්මානය ඇත්තේ එම ගම්මානවලටත් වඩා අඩි දහස්ගණනකින් උසැති ලෝකාන්ත බෑවුමේ ඉහළ කෙළවරකය.

We decided to take rest after long & tired 1st day journey. On next day morning after having our breakfast we went to Kalankuttiya Wewa , it is near by our relative’s house. It is very big & good place for bath. We have a good time there until we came home for our lunch. In the evening we went to Kalakuttiya village temple.

We started our journey around 7.30 a.m & first visit to Sri Maha Bodhi & Ruwanweliseya. After that we went to other important places until 11.30 a.m. After that we went to Thisa Wewa & having good time in water. After having our lunch we had a little nap under the roadside tree. Around 3.00 p.m we started our journey again.

Year and Month 23-24 Jan 2016 Number of Days 2 Crew Hasitha, Gayan and Me + Wildlife Tracker and Our Jeep Driver Senevi Accommodation Manawila Wildlife Bungalow Transport By Car and Jeep Activities Wildlife, Photography, Relaxing, etc… Weather Excellent but some showers in the afternoon on the first day. Route Colombo->Puttalam->Saliyawewa->Wilpattu National Park and back […]

Our son in Grade 1 & he getting long vacation in August. That means we were free from normal routine work. Then we decided to arrange a trip. We thought arrange a long trip. It will easy for us to visit many places & visit all relatives’ houses in one trip. On 30th June morning we went to Anuradhapura. But on that moment also we don’t have any fix plan. But one thing , I knew that this will be more than 10 days trip.

Galboda is not a famous railway station for many of Sri Lankans. There are some more waterfalls around this area such as Kadiyanlena fall etc. The most suitable vehicle is the Train, because the road after the RS is very bad and worst. We went to the Galboda by bikes and found the small village after having rough rides among the unknown forest patch. A man told us a shortcut from the forest but it is actually a shortcut for hiking.

Year and Month 2014 August Number of Days One Crew 2 Accommodation N/A Transport Motor Bicycle Activities Hiking, Photography and nature exploring Weather Rainy Route Colombo -> Kegalle -> Aranayaka road up to Gevilapitiya Returned on the same route Tips, Notes and Special remark There are 2km long concreted road from the aranayake main road. […]

Every year there is something on top of my to-do list and this year also was no exception. It was something mysterious and well researched by me. Been a very dry year I decided to ride my luck. Thunhisgala / Kalupahana is one of the center most peaks of Knuckles conservation area providing the best view of the forest reserve. My attempts on searching for a guide was the most troublesome thing and hearing that the path to KMP wadiya was overgrown brought up some concerns.

Gala Pita Gala (ගලපිටගල) is an unusual rock formation found at Kalupahana area. There are three rocks and largest one on the smaller one is balanced on flat rock surface with small contact.

Hello everyone! Hope you’re all well and getting geared up for the up-coming festive season. Well, all the glamour of the festive season would’ve been over by the time you read this article. However, after our previous hike based at Kande Ela, there was a transitional period, very much like the “Nonagathaya” aka inauspicious time during April New Year. I was going mad with nowhere to go and was ready to walk up a wall when finally Hasi came into my rescue and we managed to do a small Waterfall Hunt in Colombo.

If it wasn’t for that, I’d’ve had to be admitted to a sanatorium. Even after that, there was a long wait before our scheduled journey to the Koslanda, Bandarawela and Demodara. The constant rains made me think of those gorgeous cascades falling majestically having been fed by the increased volume of water but I was stuck at home with no means to go see them. However, we planned to visit a few of them during our journey, most notably the Upper Diyaluma Falls or according to Dr. Eberhard Kautzsch who wrote the book “A Guide to the Waterfalls of Sri Lanka”, this could even be the Kudalu Ella.

Most of the Sri Lankan’s are connected to the names derived from “Sinha” The race Sinhalies, Areas like Bulathsinhala etc . Surnames such as Jayasinha, Ranasinghe 🙂 etc and of course we have a forest called by that name. “SINHARAJA” origin of this sinha term is not from the carnivorous animal “Lion “or lion centered fictions concluding half humans. Those were myths put in to our minds forcefully. It’s truly because of the four superior races who lived in sri lanka commonly known as SIV HELA who gave birth to one nation .Those were called Yakkaha, Naga, Deva & Gandharwa.