We had a relaxing drive to the southern province as we received an invitation from our friend to visit his village as well as we need to have a drive to Matara via the Southern Expressway. Since my other members didn’t see Andahelena Fall I marked it at the first thing on our trip. I visited Andahelena Falls in May, 2013 while on a Funeral of an office mate’s cousin. However, we were able to visit Madol Duwa, Martin Wickremasinghe House, and the Museum and finally stopped at Dondra Light House which is closed to that friend’s home.

Gammaduwa is a famous destination in the northern side of the Knuckles forest reserve. I had an opportunity to visit Gammaduwa with Nirosh’s office crew as they have direct access to the transmission towers for business purposes. Karagahatenna is the nearest peak of Gammaduwa and both peaks are reserved for telecommunication transmission towers, hence entering the premises is not open to the public.

It was very easy to find Pahanthudawa fall as it is the main attraction of this road. So far many hotels and guest houses in this area was based on this fall. This is a very small waterfall and beautiful and too dangerous. Many of people were died over there due to flash floods and falling to the deep pool. Reaching to the closer of the fall is much difficult since we need to walk along the rocks and it might be slippery. Hence please avoid of visiting this fall during rainy season and soon after the raining.

Thalpe Beach is a beach situated in the Southern province of Sri Lanka, close to the city of Galle. It is a popular destination among both locals and foreigners. There are vibrant shops, restaurant and various water sports related activities to do in the surrounding area of Thalpe.

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”.

Deanstone Mini World’s End is the official World’s End in Knuckles Kandy side. This is located at Meemure road son after the Nawangala village. There is the Deanstone Forest Office and the footpath will begin from there. People should buy a ticket and walk along the established footpath. The footpath is a circular path which is established through a pines forest as to feel the nature.

I and Malith were planning a hike on a Saturday and we came through Hatton to Nawalapitiya for a hike but unfortunately, we couldn’t go to the destination due to some bicycle issue. Then we thought to go to Peacock since Malith wasn’t there before. But I went Peacock about 4 years ago but couldn’t capture a single photograph due to heavy mist and rain. Hence I also agreed with Malith to go to Peacock via a different road which shows in the Google Map.

There was a special visit at Jetwing Hatton bungalows on that day and I left early morning around 5.30 am from Jaela and wanted to be at Hatton at 9 am. I was heard that Sripadaya can see near to Jaela Highway entrance but never had time to go there in the early morning. Since the sunrise wasn’t happening I thought to go and see whether Sripadaya is visible to that place.

ලංකා සිතියමේ මැද පිහිටා ඇති ලෙස දැවැන්ත වනාන්තර ප්‍රදේශයක් සලකුණු කොට ඇත. එය ඔබ අප දන්නා සමනල රක්ෂිතයයි. එලෙසම නැගෙනහිර කොටස හෝටර් නැත්ත වන පියසයි. බැලූ බැල්මට එකම වනරොදක් ලෙස පිහිටා ඇති මෙම ප්‍රදේශ දෙක තුළ පවතින්නේ එකිනෙකට වෙනස් තත්ත්වයන් වේ. සමනල රක්ෂිතය දැවැන්ත ශාක හා ජෛව විවිධත්ව​ෙයන් පිරි ප්‍රදේශයක් වන අතර හෝර්ටන්තැන්න ඊට හාත්පසින්ම වෙනස් ශාක සම්භවයක් හා කාලගුණික රටාවක් පිරි ප්‍රදේශයකි.

Pahiyangala caves lies in Yatagampitiya, which is a remote village about 5 km away from Bulathsinhala (40Km along Piliyandala-Horana road), in the Kalutara District. Excavation has proved that these caves were inhabited by prehistoric cave men some 37,000 years ago. This cave is supposed to be the largest natural rock in Asia and this is also known to be the most ancient pre-historic human settlement in Asia.

When I went to Nirosh’s house one day he invited me to see the Maswil Canel and since I have little time we decided to walk along the Canal up to the Bolgoda River.

It was different two days of my travelling beyond adventures and exertion.