We have planned a journey for covering 5 main giants in Nuwaraeliya in 3 days. And we were able to conquer Mahakudugala (2101m), Single Tree (2105m) and Kikiliyamana (2242) on the first day and we spend the night near the entrance of Uda Radella farm and on the second day, we conquer Uda Radella (2143m) and Great Western (2215m) successfully.

Since Madusanka lives in Nuwaraeliya, he was able to take the oral permission to enter the Uda Radella farm and we found a kind person who works there and he told us some details about this forest and the leopards. And he switched off the electric fence and we crossed it and headed to Great Western through a giant forest. We had a GPS route and we followed it always and able to reach the Great Western viewpoint without any difficulty.

Sudugala Mountain was a dream of me since we did our Duwili Falls hike. Then we planned this hike with a group of my friends and we contacted Ekanayake uncle as our guide. He promised us to take to the top of the Sudugala mountain but unfortunately, when we came to the Sudugala Bungalow he said that he was not been there in his lifetime. Then we had to climb that mountain by using GPS but since he didn’t tell us this issue I even not pre-downloaded the google maps of this range.

This the beginning of the SOBASIRI TEAM which is the combination of Me, Akila, and Malith, and later we welcomed Nirosh and Madusanka in 2014. This is not my very first adventure journey as I have started my adventure life in 2008 by visiting waterfalls around Kalutara area with my home town friend Jerom.

Kallebokka 3600 viewpoint (height: 1,175m) became a trending destination after it was promoted by a certain TV programme. The summit is located right on the border of Matale and Kandy districts and shares the same ridge that forms Hathale min-worlds end and Hunnasgiriya mountain. The said ridge extends to the north and joins with western massif of Knuckles.

On a clear day, visitors can observe Central Highlands, Kandy City, Sembuwatte lake and Knuckles Mountains.

I did my first visit to Mannakethi Falls in 2012 and later I have visited it for only 1 time up to 2016. But in 2016, I had to visit it for more than 12 times and mainly with my HSBC staff members. However, I took only one hike to publish this post as this shows the wooden staircase which is not available now.

Once you go to the top of Mannakethi Falls, just have to walk upward of the stream. There are many natural adventure activities in this place as sliding, jumping, and swimming too. But always be careful when walking on the slippery rocks and beware about flash floods during rainy days.

Dothalugala is a famous destination in Knuckles as the legal campsite also located over there. We went through the Dothalugala nature trail and few of us were going out of the trail for a few minutes to reach the summit of Dothalugala mountain which is height about 1574m. After we complete our trail we headed to Rathna falls and later on we explored Kaluwa Watunu Falls in the latter part of the evening.

Again here , it is me with another trip report . In this story again Aluva (Aluvihare) , my friend plays the major role. Aluva and me always needed to hike Thunhisgala down since we covered beautiful Kotaganga Cascades and Alugal-Lena during our last visit to knuckles mountain range.

Pallan Hela(1068ft) and Inginiyagala (1035ft) are two rocks situated closer to Senanayaka Samudraya at Ampara. This is our camping trip to Pallan Hela and day visit to Inginiyagala.

Ballabandigala (බල්ලාබැඳිගල ) / Bellanbandigala (බෙල්ලන්බැඳිගල) is a 1935m height beautiful destination in peak wilderness and it belongs to the Nallathanniya route as it’s neighbor is Yaka Andu Gala (යකා ඇඩූ ගල ) and the waterfall. I have planned this hike since March 2018 but was not able to make it realize due to some issues. Even though we planned this hike in January 2019 but due to a very urgent matter we had to postpone this hike at the last moment. Finally, I had to make this hike realize with Sajith and Migara on a weekend in October.

We had a one day tour to see the Richmond Castle and then Thudugala fall which was famous at that time.  Richmond castle is an amazing place with beautiful architecture. It is also close to the Kalu river and it owns a huge land area as this was the remains of a Sri Lankan history. After we spend 2-3 hours over there, we left for Thudugala fall and it is not so far from this destination. We reached Thudugala Ella within an hour and spent a few hours and finally had a bath and left in the evening.

පවුලක පැතුම් හිස බර දරාගෙන කරුණෙ අයියා වන බුටැවන් මැද්දෙන් කළුවරේම කන්ද බඩගාන්නේ තනිපංගලමේය. කුඩා කල සිටම තමන්ගේ පයට ගෙවුණු රළු ගල් බොරළු පාර කරුණෙ ඔහුට හොඳට හුරුය. කරුණෙ අයියා පමණක් නොව, කොහොනාවල නම් හුදෙකලා ගම්මානයේ වෙසෙන බොහෝ ගැමියන් තමතමන්ගේ කුඩා ගෙවත්තේ ඵලදාව එක්කරගනිමින් දෛනිකව මඩො හෝ කැලෑ කොළ මිටියක් රැගෙන කඳුකර මාවතේ කිලෝමීටර දොළහක දුර පාගමනින් යන මේ වැසියෝ එදා දවසේ ජීවිතය සැලසුම් කරන්නේ තම තමාට එදිනෙදා ලැබෙන මුදල මතය.කෘෂි කර්මාන්තය ප්‍රධාන ජීවන වෘත්තිය කොටගත් කොහොනාවල ගම්මානය පිහිටා ඇත්තේ බදුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ මඩොල්සිම නගරයට කිලෝමීටර දොළහක දුරිනි. ප්‍රධාන නගරයේ සිට මඩොල්සිම තේ වතුයාය හරහා වැටී ඇති දුෂ්කර පටු දිගු කඳුකර මාවතෙහි පා ගමනින් පමණක් ළඟාවිය හැකි මෙම ගම්මානය අතිශය සුන්දර ස්වයංපෝෂිත දිවියක් ගතකරන ගැමියන්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත් එකකි. අයස්කාන්ත කඳු වලල්ලකින් වටවූ මේ හුදෙකලා ගම්මානය ගැන දන්නෝ අතළොස්සකි.උදාහරණයක් කිවහොත් බදුල්ල ප්‍රදේශයේ ජීවත්වන පුද්ගලයන් පවා මේ හුදෙකලා කුඩා ගම්මානය ගැන දන්නේ නැත.

Kalpitiya is located in Puttalam district, North Western province of Sri Lanka. It is known for its natural environment. It consists of 14 islands. It has a total area of 16.73 km2. The people of Kalpitiya are mostly fishermen. It is now developing as a tourist destination.