Knuckles Duwili Falls is a dreamy hike of most of Knuckles lovers. Here I tried to give fair description of different routes to approach Knuckles Duwili Falls on my experience.

Year and Month  19-August-2018 Number of Days  One Crew  02 Accommodation  N/A Transport  Motor Bicycles Activities  Hiking, Nature Exploring, Photography, Sightseeing, Waterfall Hunting Weather  Good Route  Colombo -> Horana -> Ballapitiya -> Govinna -> Gawaragiriya -> Ayagama Tips, Notes and Special remark Carry enough water Do not try in rainy days Ask the directions from local […]

Kadadora Vihara (Also known as Kadadora Sri Priyabimbaramaya Vihara) was a Buddhist temple, situated in Kadadora, Nuwara Eliya District, Sri Lanka. The temple was abandoned and ruined as the construction of Kotmale Dam in 1979 by Mahaweli Development programme. The ruins of Vihara still can be seen when the water level of Kotmale Reservoir is low, but the sight is very rare.

It is said that about 57 villages and 54 religious places in Kotmale were submerged with the completion of the reservoir in 1985. Except Kadadora Vihara other shrines including Thispane Vihara, Morape Devalaya, Othalawa Vihara, Pattini Devalaya and Medagoda Vihara were said to have gone under water when the reservoir was built. However, many of these temple ruins no longer exist.

This is a bit dangerous and difficult hike as we need to walk along the upward of Uma Oya. We headed to Bomburu falls which is the our trail head. We started upward trek since we need to catch the night mail to Colombo. Hence it is the easiest way to reach Nuwaraeliya rather than getting down to Bomburu fall from the reservoir.  We came to the Bomburu fall early morning and purchased the tickets. This remind me my first visit to Bomburu fall, at that time there is no any ticket counter or any notice board or even people.

This beautiful Sera Ella fall, the subject of several poems, is situated in the Dumbara Jungle that is split into two sections, both 10m in height. Kitul Canal, from the Kaudagammana Mountain, and the Hunumadala River, from the Gonamada and Deyuthu Gammmaduwa mountains, flow in unison to form the Puwakpitiya River. This later joins Thelegam River, at which point the fall is created as the water tumbles down a protruding rock face, visible from Dumbara Jungle

සමනල රක්ෂිතයේ කඳු අතරින් ප්‍රධානම කන්ද වන සිරිපා කන්ද එහි සුවිශේෂී පිහිටීම නිසාම දිවයිනේ සතර දිග් භාගයටම දැකිය හැකිය. නමුත් වනපෙතේ විශාලතම කන්ද වනුයේ බෑන සමනල ගල ය. එය රක්ෂිතයේ උසින් තෙවෙනි ස්ථානය ගන්නේ මීටර් 2010ක් ලෙසිනි. බොහෝ දුර්ග මාර්ග සේම කළුගඟේ ප්‍රධානම ජල පෝෂකයක් වී ගලා යන දියවර උපත පටන් ගන්න බෑන සමනල කන්දේ අදටත් කිසිවෙකු නොගිය ප්‍රපාතය තුළ යම් අබිරහසක් ඇති බව බොහෝ කාලයක් පටන් විවිධ පුද්ගලයින් අදහස් දක්වා ඇත.

Wewelthalawa is a beautiful plateau located near Kithulgala and Yatiyantota. It is also near to the famous Olu Fall and Wawulagala on Sea forth – Amanawela road. We should take the prior permission to visit Wewelthalawa as it is a privately owned estate.

The 60 meter Miyunu Ella waterfall is one of the two large waterfalls lying in the Kukulugala Forest (KF) is situated within the Western boundary of the Ratnapura district, Sabaragamuwa Province; and is located 15 km away from Bulathsinhala town. This forest ecosystem, which covers an area of 6000 acres within the Ayagama secretariat division, can be categorized as a low land evergreen rain forest. The dominant tree species are Dipterocarpus sp., Mesua sp., Doona sp., Schumacheria castaneifolia, Artocarpus nobilis, Calophyllum inophyllum, Mangifera zeylanica, Humboldtia laurifolia, Oncosperma fasciculatum and Canarium zeylanicum species. Kukulugala mountain, also known as “Horanae Kanda (හොරණෑ කන්ද)” in sinhala, is 705m above sea leavel.

Nayabedda Mountain is on our list for a long time as we have seen it on our Wangedigala hike. This mountain is marked in Metric Map as “St. Catherines 2” and the 1 should be St. Catherine’s Seat which is also marked in the Metric Map without the word “Seat”. When I explore this location in Metric map I realized the name given in here and the name we currently use. Actually we are using the estate name for this mountain. But the real name is “St. Catherines 2”.

Kukulagala mountain is situated near Rikillagaskada and it also is known as Diyatalawa mountain in Metric Map. We have noticed this mountain on the way to our Loolkandura. After a few months,  we planned this hike and it was much easy for us since one of our friend is living at Nuwaraeliya.

In 2017 we hiked Handapan ella plains and we noted that there is a range of peaks on the other side of the plain. Later we got to know that this was called Beragala(the highest point of Handapan ella reserve) and locals from Ilumbekanda climbed it regularly.

Knuckles Sudugala (1618m) is mountain with two peaks and surrounded by other mountains in Knuckles range. This is a dream hike of Knuckles lovers. We were able to hike one of the peaks of Sudugala as a part of three days trip.