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Today's Most Viewed

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 32 views
  2. A walk to Hanthana Mountain Range 14 views
  3. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 14 views
  4. One day hike to Kabaragala (1506m) 12 views
  5. බම්බරගන් (Bambaragan oya) expedition 9 views
  6. Days at Chilaw 8 views
  7. Lankagama – An isolated village in the Southern boundary of Sinharaja Rain Forest. 8 views
  8. Land of Palmyra 7 views
  9. Hike to Hunnasgiriya Mountain (1514 m) and near by Attractions 7 views
  10. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 7 views

This Week's

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 107 views
  2. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 67 views
  3. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 51 views
  4. Bulathkohupitiya-Narangala Hike (880m) 40 views
  5. Nuwaragala the castle with a heavenly pond! 36 views
  6. Story of Victoria 36 views
  7. One day hike to Kabaragala (1506m) 34 views
  8. Dreams Do Come True, Maragala-kanda (1111m) The Paradise Of Monaragala 34 views
  9. Dhanigala / Kandegama the Alien Mountain 33 views
  10. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 33 views

This Month's

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 353 views
  2. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 295 views
  3. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 264 views
  4. Misty point-Ambokka (1159m) and Selagama Mini world’s end 155 views
  5. Dhanigala / Kandegama the Alien Mountain 154 views
  6. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 153 views
  7. Bulathkohupitiya-Narangala Hike (880m) 143 views
  8. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 139 views
  9. Back to Yahangala (1220m) 136 views
  10. Five peaks of knuckles (1862m) 129 views

All-Time

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 45,098 views
  2. Aliyawetunaela Hike – 1665m (අලියාවැටුණඇල) 31,909 views
  3. Camping trip to Meemure – One of the best trips ever!!! 30,027 views
  4. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 26,718 views
  5. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 25,514 views
  6. Waterfalls of Colombo District 24,510 views
  7. සබරගමුවේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ කන්ද (Paraviyangala) 18,908 views
  8. Scenic Hike to Wangedigala 18,861 views
  9. ගලේ බණ්ඩාර දෙවියන්ගේ අඩවියේ පිහිටි රාවණා රජු මල දවස රජුට ජනතාව ගරු බුහුමන් දැක් වූ ස්තානය (යහන්ගල/Yahangala 1220m)... 18,111 views
  10. Great Western (6th highest mountain in Sri Lanka- 2212m) Once in a life time HIKE! 17,335 views

Waterfall Hunting at Naya Ganga, Uda Maliboda

I have a dream to visit Uda-Maliboda, ඇලි හත (Seven Waterfalls) for quite a long time. Finally with some of my friends we decided to do it in beginning of the year 2012. Our objective is to visit all the seven waterfalls without a guide and also explore the area. In the early morning at 5.00 AM we started the journey from Kiribathgoda by hired van. At around 9.30 AM we reached Uda-Maliboda. From there we had our breakfast and started the hike near the Naya Ganga.

Sri Pada (Adams Peak) via Uda Maliboda

It was about 7.30am when we started our journey from Kaduwela and our only stop was for breakfast past Avissawella. The scenery changed after the turn off at dehiowita, it was a gradual ascend with the not so good road conditions giving us ample time to admire the beauty of mother nature.

Walk from Okanda to Kataragama through Kumana and Yala National Parks

In 2010 couple of Lakdasun members lead by Priyanjan participated in Pada Yatra. As usual the resulting discussions in the forum provided every little bit of information one would need regarding the cultural event as well as the walk. In 2011 Priyanjan planned his North to South excursion along the full Pada Yatra route all the way from Jaffna. I couldn’t have got a better opprtunity to do this walk than joining Priyanjan at Okanda to do the last stretch!

Backpacking for Christmas! (Thotupola Kanda and Railway Hike)

It was a short Backpacking session [Travelled alone]. Left Colombo on the 23rd Dec [Friday] night and reached Pattipola on the 24th Dec at 04:30 hrs. Slept at the Pattipola train station till dawn and commenced my walk to Thotupola Kanda, 3rd highest peak in Sri Lanka, via Horton Plains at 07:10 hrs. Reached the summit and got back to the Pattipola Station by 11:46 hrs [18Kms by foot]. After a short break I started my railway trek to Ohiya from Pattipola at 12:00 hrs [06 Kms by foot]. Was able to arrive at the Ohiya station by 13:50 hrs and on my way I have walked through 04 railway tunnels including the 3rd longest Tunnel in Sri Lanka [Tunnel No.18]. Got to Badulla by train from Ohiya by 18:30 hrs [train was delayed a bit] and got into the train from Badulla on the same day and got back to Colombo by 06:00 hrs on the 25th Dec 2011

Trail to Hanthana – Paradise of the Hill Capital

We organized this hike as a university tradition. There were seven secret members for organizing the hike. We started the hike at about 9 in the morning from the Faculty canteen with a guide dog “White Fang” . Then we entered into Hanthana forest reserve with sudden a rain fall. We had to face a terrible leech attack at the start. We came to a huge area with pine trees. Then we climbed through the tea estates to a plain area of the mountain range. We had our lunch there.

Knuckles,Riversturn,Pitawala pathana,Ilukkumbura,Manigala

We organized this trip during our university vacation. We started our journey from Kandy to Matale by morning 7:10 train and arrived Matale at 8:30 a.m. All the crew members gathered at Matale town. After buying some necessary food items at Matale we hired a van to go to Riversturn. On the way to Riversturn we visited Bambarakiri Ella which was located about 1-2 km from Rattota. It was a short and easy path about 100m to the falls from the main road.

Unspoiled nature at its best at Bambarakanda and Devil’s Staircase

The first hike of the day was to Lanka Ella falls. While at first we were contemplating skipping this, Mrs. Mayakaduwa strongly recommended that we do this hike and it’s a decision that we did not regret. The hike at first began through a pine forest and this was the trickiest part since the ground was very slippery.

Sinharaja Birding and Southern Highway Experience

We started at 5 am and reached Sinharaja via Mathugama/ Kalawana (Kudawa Entrance) at 7am. Unfortunately we had to park the vehicle 1 km before the ticket office at the regional forest office as a bridge was under construction.The climb to the park entrance was steep and by 7.30 we were inside with the tracker Somapala( 045 7210845)

Achievement of the Hang on target at Namunukula

Before the Sun wake up, we were busy in examination on 1:50,000 maps, to ascertain how & why we loss our goal during the last exploration. After such a hard trekking (not less than 13+3 =16km on foot) in the previous day, the crew was still aggressive to re-do the hike & not known the meaning of giving up. Having an idea on the road (Jeep track) network at the tea estates in and around Namunukula range, we decided to follow the path of the previous day as much as possible with our jeep & reach the village where we suspended our exploration last day.

The lost aim at Namunukula

Existence of nine peaks was caused to name the range as Namunu- Kula. It was the 12th highest mountain in SL. The highest peak out of 9 was climbed by many hikers each year; but from Spring Valley side which was considered as the formal path. Our ambition was to explore the whole 9 peaks from Passara side which was not popular trail and even done by nobody in popular travel forums.

Trip to Ohiya and World’s End

After spending some time at the Adisham we hit the road again towards Ohiya. Road was not in the best condition, so it took us some time. After the Ohiya Railway station the road condition was good and started to be scenic. It was around 5.30 pm when we reached the turnoff to the Hill Safari’s gravel road. We were mesmerized by the stunning view and simply forgot to proceed towards the Hill safari.

Around the Kingdom of Ravana

It was one of my dream journeys which I had waited for a long time to accomplished. Finally that day came.We departure from colombo on 4th of September by 12.45AM Ampara bus to go to the ancient Memure village.We arrived Hunnasgiriya at about 5.30 AM and get breakfast from there. We went to Loolwatta by a van which leaves at 8.00 AM from Hunnasgiriya. After that, there was no public transport vehicle on that road until 1.30 PM. After scenic drive along the Hunnasgiriya-Loolwatta road we came to the destination at about 9.00AM.From there we started our long walk towards Meemure.

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