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Today's Most Viewed

  1. A Family Trip to Morningside 21 views
  2. Hike to Bathalegala and some attractions of Pilimathalawa 18 views
  3. Mysterious cave paintings at Ella, Kurulangala(කුරුලන’ගල) 13 views
  4. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 13 views
  5. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 11 views
  6. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 10 views
  7. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 10 views
  8. Trip to Wewathanna (Lake Plains) 10 views
  9. ගවරා විසූ ගවරවිල (Gawarawila plains) 10 views
  10. First Ever Camping at “Haritha Kanda”, Bogawanthalawa 9 views

This Week's

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 129 views
  2. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 93 views
  3. A Family Trip to Morningside 61 views
  4. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 61 views
  5. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 60 views
  6. First Ever Camping at “Haritha Kanda”, Bogawanthalawa 58 views
  7. Uda Lakshapana Gala / Saptha Kanya / Seven Virgins (1569m) hike 53 views
  8. Waterfalls of Colombo District 51 views
  9. Kondagala Mountain, the beauty of Loolcandura 50 views
  10. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 48 views

This Month's

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 487 views
  2. First Ever Camping at “Haritha Kanda”, Bogawanthalawa 321 views
  3. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 292 views
  4. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 286 views
  5. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 220 views
  6. ගවරා විසූ ගවරවිල (Gawarawila plains) 180 views
  7. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 174 views
  8. Uda Lakshapana Gala / Saptha Kanya / Seven Virgins (1569m) hike 170 views
  9. Trip to Wewathanna (Lake Plains) 160 views
  10. කුවේණි විජයට දෙස් තැබූ යක්දෙස්සා ගල (Yakdessagala 540m) 160 views

All-Time

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 45,480 views
  2. Aliyawetunaela Hike – 1665m (අලියාවැටුණඇල) 32,018 views
  3. Camping trip to Meemure – One of the best trips ever!!! 30,057 views
  4. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 26,898 views
  5. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 25,692 views
  6. Waterfalls of Colombo District 24,737 views
  7. Scenic Hike to Wangedigala 18,993 views
  8. සබරගමුවේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ කන්ද (Paraviyangala) 18,981 views
  9. ගලේ බණ්ඩාර දෙවියන්ගේ අඩවියේ පිහිටි රාවණා රජු මල දවස රජුට ජනතාව ගරු බුහුමන් දැක් වූ ස්තානය (යහන්ගල/Yahangala 1220m)... 18,197 views
  10. Great Western (6th highest mountain in Sri Lanka- 2212m) Once in a life time HIKE! 17,429 views

Rail hike from Demodara to Pattipola and hike to Ella rock

It was a rainy Friday when I went to Gampola from Colombo to spend the weekend at my aunt’s place. I took the 5.50 am train from Colombo and reached Gampola at about 10.30 am. My mother was at my aunt’s place and as we were having a small chat, she wanted me to go to Haputale and deliver some documents to a relative. I was instantly willing to go because I have not been to Haputale for years. As soon as I was dreaming about going by train to Haputale, I remembered Ashan ayya’s trip report on his hike from Badulla to Ambewala 🙂 YES, I wanted to do at least a small bit of it.

Moon Walkers on a Quest of Their Own – Kalthota

I started looking for options for another journey and came across Kalthota Doovili Ella from Harinda and Prince. After our unsuccessful attempt at Asupini Ella, I was planning on visiting her again but intermittent rains kept me isolated only in my dreams. So Wuminda’s phone call was a disguised blessing and I immediately formed a group called “Balangoda” on Facebook and sent the requests to my former crew.

Nuwaragala the castle with a heavenly pond!

Nuwaragala the fortress on top of a rock in the deep forest of elephant country was once a dream, nevertheless just like many other dreams this one also came true. After getting guidance from Priyanjan who had been there last year, I got together with my friend Dumidu and decided to give it a try. Though it was raining elsewhere and drizzling on and off at Maha oya we went ahead with our plans.

Camping at Horton Plains and hike to Thotupola

Horton Plains is one of my favorite places in Srilanka. So I spoke with some of my friends to go on a trip there and Pasindu, who has prior experience in camping, was the first to jump in and suggest the idea of camping at HP. I put in that we walk the whole journey from Pattipola to HP and back. We gathered all information from “Lakdasun” and www.travelogueslanka.com

Lakdasun Rangers on a Joint Venture – Bathalegala

The people who’ve been on either along the road or by train must have seen a gorgeous girlie from Kadugannawa towards Aranayake. She’s so unique and iconic; you simply can’t have missed seeing her. I’ve seen many people including myself, craning their necks out of the windows to get a better look at her.

Walk Through Thangamale Forest

Thangamale forest is a place where I go to very often specially because it is a nice walk and a calm & quiet place. Going there also gives me a chance to travel by train

Celebrated Freedom Day on Top of Thoppigala (Baron’s cap)!

It was another random weekend coming up and I needed to go somewhere as usual and suddenly out of nowhere the name Thoppigala popped out from one of those deep nerve plexus and incidentally the coming Sunday was 19th May which was the date where the president declared the end of the civil war 4 years back (that is 2009/05/19). It was the ideal occasion to hoist a flag on top of the famous Baron’s cap which was the last stronghold of the rebels in the East. More information on Thoppigala war will be brought up later in this report.

Two days at Kanneliya and Hiyare

This was a sudden decision taken before two days and we left Gampaha around 5.00am and came to Southern highway via Kottawa. From Pinnaduwa outlet we came to Udugama and reached Kanneliya Mount Resort around 08.30 am. After a quick breakfast we walked towards the park entrance, which is only 300 meters away. Vishan, our guide was waiting for us.

Herbal Paradise Dolukanda (600m)

According to Folklore During the war between Ravana and Rama, both Rama and Lakshman were hit by powerful arrows to fall unconscious and to bring them back to life Hanuman was instructed to fetch lifesaving herbs from Himalayas. Hanuman went to the Himalayas, rooted part of the hill and brought it as he was not able to identify the lifesaving herbs. Parts from the hill fell on five places in Sri Lanka, Rumasala, Dolukanda in Hiripitiya, Ritigala, Thalladi in Mannar and Kachchativu in the north.

Soldiering onto Greater Hikes – Great Western

I was on the foot board the whole journey, highly excited, enjoying it to the max. We passed many things and stations along the way. But one thing in particular got embedded in my mind. That was “Great Western Station”. The entering onto the Station area was grand and I can still remember that day. I’ve been viewing that picture every now and then and couple years back came to know about the GW Mountain which is surprisingly the 6th highest in SL.

Trip to Piduruthalagala Summit

I see this mountain from faraway almost every day but had not got a chance to climb it until one day my father said “Get ready, tomorrow we are going to Piduruthalagala”

Hike to Ella Rock Point

Although I had been to Ella Rock Point many, many, many times before, it is this time that I decided to write about it.

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