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Today's Most Viewed

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 17 views
  2. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 14 views
  3. One day hike to Kabaragala (1506m) 12 views
  4. බම්බරගන් (Bambaragan oya) expedition 10 views
  5. A walk to Hanthana Mountain Range 10 views
  6. Days at Chilaw 9 views
  7. Uda Lakshapana Gala / Saptha Kanya / Seven Virgins (1569m) hike 8 views
  8. Lankagama – An isolated village in the Southern boundary of Sinharaja Rain Forest. 8 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 286 views
  3. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 248 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) 146 views
  7. Bulathkohupitiya-Narangala Hike (880m) 143 views
  8. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 139 views
  9. Five peaks of knuckles (1862m) 129 views
  10. Back to Yahangala (1220m) 126 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! 25,515 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

Thotupola Kanda(2359m) 3rd highest mountin in Sri Lanka

Originally we planned this trip to visit the waterfalls in Ginigathhena and Hatton area, but since we were able to reach Ginigathhene before 7, made a sudden change of plans and decided to hike the Thotupola kanda. As I mentioned earlier the climate was really cool and the roads were all covered in mist.

One day trip to Reverseturn, Pitawala pathana and Sera Ella in Windy/dry season

This is the first time we visited to Riverseturn. That was windy season for Riverstone and best time to visit. The breathtaking surroundings, strong cool winds and challenging hikes. But the pitawala pathana was very dry at that time. According to the local persons, they didn’t get rain from 2-3 months. You can see how dry it was. We visited to Thelgamuwa oya for bath but we saw not enough water for that. Then we visited to Sera fall. We didn’t see large and beautiful water fall because of lack of rain.

Knuckles North Vagabond

A 3 day visit to northern part of Knuckles range, called Knuckles due to its mountains appearance similarity to a knuckles. Once we reached Rattota around 1.30pm. There wasn’t any bus to at least somewhere near to Riverstone. Three wheel and Van fares are very high. In Rattota town they were well organized and they asked same fare. I suggest using hired vehicle from home town or Matale would be a better idea. We finally got a bus from Matale to Puwakpitiya.

Adventure in Mahiyanganaya

We were gathered into Colombo private bus stand on Friday night @ about 10.15pm to catch 11.45Pm Mahiyangana bus. Since it was a long weekend huge crowd was there. But we were lucky enough to get seats in 10.45 Bibila bus which was came unexpectedly late. Therefore it is better if you can reserve seats in advanced if you plan to go by Bus. We get off at the Gurulupotha rest house at about 5 am. There is a water stream, which is a branch of a Hasalaka oya is flow across Mahiyanganaya road. We had ‘Roti’ for the breakfast from a small hotel at Gurulupotha

One day hike to Bambarakanda falls and Lanka falls

It was around 9.30 when we reach Bambarakanda Rest. I should mention again that the owning lady of Bambarakanda Rest Mrs. Sera Mayakaduwa was truly a very helpful person. Since we didn’t have a guide she gave us all the information about the trails and even drew us a rough sketch of the area.

Waterfalls of Lankagama

The route was from Galle to Lankagama via Wanduramba, Udugama and Neluwa. The road conditions up to Neluwa was good but after that the road was extremely narrow and in many areas was in pretty abd shape. A special note is that the bridge over the Gin ganga is very narrow. If your vehicle is wide, you should use the route via Kosmulla from Neluwa. This route joins the shorter route just after the bridge. All in all it took about 2-2.5 hours to get to Lankagama from Galle

“Galamuduna village (ගලමුදුන)” through Udagaladebokka and return to Heenganga bridge – Knuckles Range

The bus terminated at Pamunupura junction. Then we have to turn left and continue the journey by foot. The sight of Yahangala too away our tiredness all the time. It brought ice cool to our eyes. We stopped briefly at a point where a small water stream crosses the road and fall over cliff on the other side of the road. After 15 mins we restarted the journey. It was a heavy climb thereafter and after 200m we reached the Grama niladari office of the village. It was closed and we got some more rest there. The concreted road ended there and a foot path began.

Deanston, Mini World’s End and Everywhere Beautiful Along the way

Afterwards we proceeded to Hunnasgiriya Town, from where we took the road to Loolwatta. The Deanston Conservation Centre is located about 8km away on this road.

The place is accessible by bus. To reach Hunnasgiriya either the Colombo to Kandy, Kandy to Mahiyangana bus combination or the Colombo to Mahiyangana bus should be taken. After getting down at Hunnasgiriya 616 Hunnasgiriya – Loolwatta bus must be taken. However this bus only operates. It leaves the Teldeniya depot at 12.30pm each day (Information can be obtained by calling the teldeniya depot).

Hike to Bambarakanda & Lanka Ella waterfalls

Our journey started from around 4.30 in the morning and we proceeded to Rathnapura where had the breakfast. After the breakfast we went to the Rathnapura Maha Saman Dewalaya. We spent a little time there and hit a road again. We went along A4 highway until we came to the Kalupahana junction and took a left turn towards the Bamabarakanda. After proceeding about 4.5 km we had the 1st sight of the Bambarakanda fall at a distance.

Morningside Vagabond

A 3 day visit to southwestern part of Sinharaja, called morningside due to its weather is always feels like morning
Harsha and myself (iro)(left Colombo around 6.00 am by a CTB bus to Ambilipitiya (through low level road – Try to use bus through low level since it is 10 Kms shorter than high level). We reached Rathnapura at about 8.20 am and met Kavinda (other member of the group). Then we had our breakfast and we bought some rice. kavinda already bought other stuff for cooking.

Misty mountains via Illukkumbura

Knuckles mountain range has been a paradise for me since the first time I visited there via Deanston in 2009. The breathtaking surroundings, strong cool winds and challenging hikes had been tempting me to visit there again and as a result I decided to visit Knuckles again in the following year from Illukkumbura side. The story of our unforgettable journey is as follows

Exploring Pidurangala and beyond

Just after passing Kurunegala we turned left to reach Arankele Monastery. The road was not that smooth, but it was ok. There were places where the road was quite damaged due to heavy rains on the previous night. If not for a van or off-road vehicle, it would have been impossible to tackle those obstacles.

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