Anamaduwa is 1 hour way from my residence and it has been a routine area of interest for me. Though I had visited Paramakanda and few other places in the region I did want to expand the list of attractions.

This is a short account of remain structures belong to Nanu Oya-Ragala narrow gauge railway line, called Udupussallawa Railway Track (UPR).

‘‘සොබාසිරි’’ අපි යනු හුදෙක් විනෝදයකට ක්‍රියාදාම සංචාර යන්නවුන් පිරිසක් නොවෙයි. සෑම ගමනක්ම අපට ගවේෂණයකි. මන්ද මිනිස් පහස නොලද, කාලයේ වැලිතලාවෙන් වසං වූ අතිශය දුෂ්කර කඳු, දියඇලි, ගුහා සොයාගෙන යන අපේ සංචාරක දිවිය යනු දුෂ්කර බව, අවදානම හා උද්​ෙ‌යා්ගය සපිරි ක්‍රියාදාම චාරිකාවකි. සංචාරක ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ අතිබහුතරය පවා දැන සිටියේ ‘‘කිරිගල්පොත්ත’’ නම් වූ කන්ද හෝර්ටන් තැන්නේ ඇති ලංකාවේ දෙවන උසම කන්ද ලෙසය. ඒ හැර තවත් කිරිගල්පොත්ත නම් ලද කන්දක් නකල්ස් වනයේ සැඟව ඇති බව අති බහුතරය නොදැන සිටියේ සැබවින්ම මීට පෙර කිසිදු සංචාරකයකු දුම්බර වනයේ සිව් වැනියට උසම කිරිගල්පොත්ත (1648) තරණය නොකළ හෙයිනි. සමස්ත දුම්බර වනයේම අතිශය සංවේදී වලාකුළු වනාන්තර ඉසව්ව සොයා ගිය දුෂ්කර ගමන මෙසේ දිග හරින්නෙමි.

ගල් කුට්ටියක මානව මුහුණක් නෙළීමට ගත් ලාංකේය උත්සාහය මීට වසර ගණනකට පෙර දිවයයි. ගල්පිටියාය පුද්ගලික වතු සමාගමේ උඩවේරිය දෙසට එනම් උතුරු – ඊසාන මායිමේ පිහිටි ගලපිටිගල නම් ගල් කුට්ටිය වන සංරක්‍ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට අයත් වස්තුවකි. දේශීය විදේශීය සංචාරකයන්ගේ අවධානය තවමත් යොමුව නැති මෙම ස්ථානය පුරාවිද්‍යාත්මක බවින් වැදගත් ස්ථානයක් ලෙස ගවේෂණය කළේ ආචාර්ය රාජ් සෝමදේව මහතා විසිනි.

We start our journey from Sigiriya & our next destination was Matale. On that way we went to see “Nalanda Gedige” & Matale “Alu Viharaya”

We left from Anuradhapura around 8.00 a.m & reached to Jathika Namal Uyana around 9.00 a.m. We spent couple of hours there & came back to entrance around 11.30 a.m. From there we went to Ibbankatuwa Wewa. We had good bath there & we left to see Ibbankatuwa Megalith Cemetery. Now this place developed & maintain nicely.

Hike started from the back of the resort and we climbed the nearby small mountain through the rubber estate and reached to a summit and we could see up to the Colombo harbor over there. After that we walked along the rocky plain and met the mentioned water spring. It was covered by bricks and pipe lines attached to the nearby villages. After that we got down to another side and walked about 1 km through the dry forest. Again we reached to a rubber estate and met the stream which creates Algama waterfall. We walked 200 along the stream and stopped at Algama waterfall for a while.Again we walked to the left side rubber estate and reached to a Banana planting estate where the last house of this situated in Nilvalagala Mountain. Nilvalagala Mountain is about 150m height Mountain and we reached to the summit with in minutes. After that guide took us to the ridge of the mountain and we got down to the rocks by sitting on the rocky plain. And we reached to an open cave and walked 10m towards the opposite side where the dead end located.

Kalubowitiyana is a mountain situated between Kalubowitiyana and Dewalegama Villages. When I and my friend travel around Neluwa area we saw this mountain on the way and it was looks like SripadayaSoon after I saw a photo of this mountain in a FB group. After few weeks we planned this hike since friend of my friend is in Dellawa and he was able to have a well-known guide for this mountain.

On 15th morning we left from Kalankuttiya & first we visit Awkana Viharaya. After that we had little rest at “Kala Wewa”. After visiting “Vijithapura Viharaya” we came to Galkulama via Maradankadawala.

Again long awaited August vacation came. We decided to arrange a tour like last year we do.

We went our relative’s house in Mawanella area on month of May. We stay there 2 days of time. Dewanagala Viharaya situated near to our relatives house. Therefore we visit there on 6th morning. We spent few hours there & we came with happy memories.

This was one of our another trip which we planned to do with a zero plan. When we left Colombo all we knew was its just a 2 day trip.