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.

Kaluthara District is blessed with number of beautiful tiny waterfalls. This is my second experience of cascades of Kaluthara and surrounding Buddhist Hermitages.

We started build a “Kuti” in the forest near “Kukulamalapotha” village. This is one of remote villages near Ilukkumbura area. Earlier more than 50 families lived in this village , but now only 4 families live in this village. Due to many difficulties they left from this village. From village border we have to go nearly 2 km’s in the jungle to reach the “Lena”. This place situated in the middle of the hill & adjoining “Thelgamu Oya”.

We went our relative’s house in Mawanella area on month of May. We stay there 2 days of time. Dewanagala Viharaya situated near to our relatives house. Therefore we visit there on 6th morning. We spent few hours there & we came with happy memories.

This was one of our another trip which we planned to do with a zero plan. When we left Colombo all we knew was its just a 2 day trip.

On July 9th morning we started our journey around 5.00 a.m. We stopped our relative’s house in  Mawanella for breakfast.

Popularly known Saptha Kanya / Seven Virgins Hills is also called Uda Lakshapana Gala. Few years ago it’s was a hard hike now seems to be a less strenuous journey due to clear foot path.

One of our relative every year offer “Dhanaya” for  “Kudumbigala Aranya”. For this trip he is taking large number of people.

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.

After visiting at Karagahathenna Mini World’s end, I was dreaming to camp there to enjoy the sunrise. This is our story about camping at Karagahathenna Mini World’s end and trekking to another beauty called Sera Ella.