Randenigala mountain range is a unique and lesser-visited area due to the massive risk of wild elephants. Because all the drivers can see elephants at Raja Mawatha which go through the VRR forest reserve where no other residences or even a single resting place on that road. We had this experience along with our Hegasulla Hike done on the same day morning. After we came to the top of Hegasulla Mountain we decided to descend to the Randenigala range and climb up all three main peaks of the range.

It was a very hard hike as we were lack of water. Our water reserve was finished at Hegasulla and however, we started our trek to Randenigala range with a hope that we will meet up a stream. It was not difficult as we had to walk through Maana bushes and at some point it was difficult on climbing as falling of rocks and slippering.

We have visited some waterfalls at Avissawella in February 2018 but we didn’t have time to visit two more falls and the Seethawaka garden. Hence I and Nirosh planned this day trip to cover those places and it was successful since we had enough time to see them.

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.

We had a train journey to Nuwaraeliya for meet a special person of our member. Since Madusanka is there, we thought to visit Ravan Fall which couldn’t see on our previous journey. So, we took Madusanka’s car and driven to Perawela to see the Bomburu Bride as we cannot pass her without visiting and after that we went to Ravan fall and spend sometime over there.

After that we went to Hakgala botanical garden we I have been there for the last time on 2002. Since we had enough time to roaming around Nuwaraeliya we walked along the paths and had a silent exploration about a path to climb Hakgala Mountain. Because Hakgala is a high sensitive forest reserve and as we heard on one can climb this giant mountain due to this restrictions. However we couldn’t find any secret path or even any clue about climbing this mountain but we were able to achieve this mountain range in October 2018 successfully. But at that time I and Malith are only able to do this secret hike and still we didn’t published any details about that hike as we are not able to disclose the methods we followed.

This is another one day journey to hidden waterfalls in Colombo district.

Katalagolla oya is situated at the Northern border of VRR Forest reserve. We had this great experience about 2 years ago with our Sobasiri team. This is a dangerous hike as we have to consider on many facts. Hence enjoy this hike on a moderate weather day with fully equipped items. You need to have a good plan about the journey and the time management is necessary on this hike due to the difficulty of the journey.

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.

Year and Month Andagala-2017 December 30th Elugala / Wawugala-2018 December 03rd Maraluwawa RMW- 2018 September 09th Ethugala-2019 December 15th Number of Days Altogether one day is enough Crew Andagala-Anupama, Eshan, Nuwan, Achintha, Anupama’s friend and Myself Elugala / Wawugala-Anupama, Nuwan and Myself Maraluwawa RMW- Anupama, Sanjeewa and Myself Ethugala-Solo Accommodation Not Applicable Transport By bus, […]

සමනළ වන මැද නටබුන් සොයා ගිය අපි මීළඟට ගියේ තවත් අපූරු ස්ථානයකට. ඒක කන්දක්. මහ කළු ගල් පර්වතයකින් හෙබි විශාල කන්දක් වන එය සමනළ කන්දට පෙනෙන්නේ තවත් කන්දක් සමගින් හාවී කඳු වැටියක් ලෙසයි. සමනළ කන්ද යනු ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ලෝකයට ගෙන ගිය සලකුණයි. මන්ද අතීතයේ අරාබි මුහුද හා ඉන්දියන් සාගරයේ යාත්‍රිකයන් මෙම අරුම පුදුම කන්ද දැක අප සශ්‍රීක ගොඩබිමට ගොඩවැදුණු බව නොරහසකි. අද අප සමනළ අඩවියේ හුදෙකලා වූ කන්දක් සොයා ගෙන ගියේ අතීතාවර්ජනයක්ද සමගිනි.

The Rakwana mountain range, which is located in the margin of the northern side of Sinharaja, a UNESCO world heritage site, is an area having rich bio–diversity. The recent excavations of the alluvial deposits in Sabaragamuwa basin associated with northern side of Sinharaja area revealed that the existance of caves in the vicinity of Pannila mountain. The cave formation is seen within the rocks of crystalline limestons (marble),which is popularly known as ‘Pannila Hunugala’ is of 550 m in length and 350 cm height at its entrance of which 60 cm filled with water, where special cave characteristics are visible. Stalagmite and stalactites of 2.5 m height at the core of the cave was believed to be formed after re-crystallization of pre-existing crystalline limestones- the basement rock – in the Highland Complex of Sri Lanka belongs to the Precambrian age. Speleothem dimensions were used to measure the volume of stalagmite and stalagtites. The action of chemical weathering of crystalline limestone followed by limy solutions makes it secondary features like stalagmite and stalactite.It is postulated from the Geological map of Sri Lanka that the same crystalline limestones bed is extended to the Rakwana Pannila Hunugala’ ,Samanalawewa, Handagiriya caves.

Karawita Kanda which is known as Eluwagala is a unique famous mountain range in Karawita Samanpura area in Kalawana. This is a single mountain range which is belongs to minor mountains in lower areas of the country. The name of “Karawita kanda” mentioned in the metric map but locals use “Eluwagala” as it’s name. 

Eluwagala is not a hard climb but little difficult to hike during rainy season as usual. There is only one rocky plain at the top of the mountain and it is marked in the Metric map as the “Karawita Kanda” and height for 594m. Our initial hike was from a tea patch and after that we walkied along a dried water stream. Finally we reached to a Kekilla bushy area and within few minutes were able to come to the top of the mountain.

Wewelwatte road is one of my favorite route in my travel life, I went more than 10 times on that road specially before it gets carpeted. There are plenty of waterfalls located in that road. Here I visited these falls during my journeys and they are list down in order below. Kindly note that there are some more waterfalls at this route such as Anda Ella, Goxin Ella, Pareiyyan Ella, Madde Kanda Ella, Polwatta Amuna Ella, Halmehi Ella, Kunissan Ella, Dodam Gallena Ella, Demala Ella, Batahena Ella etc.

You can plan this waterfall journey as per the given GPS coordinates. Without telling any description you can create your own route from Bopath to Beruwatte falls by using below GPS coordinates. It will be more attractive if you can travel in this route soon after a heavy rain. And remember do not visit them during heavy rainy season as there are so many flash floods and even we cannot get in closer to them during that time as they are acting crazy.