‘‘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.

Kithulgala is a popular travel destination situated at Colombo-Hatton road. It is famous among genera public as people come here for a bath at rapid Kelani River. And it is the only place in Sri Lanka where white water rafting is practiced.
Apart from all these Kithulgala has another value due to some waterfalls situated around. This is my attempt to cover waterfalls and some common travel destinations around Kithulgala.

Last May when we did Duwili ella trail from Etanwala we met few of our friends who decided to get down from Ranamure side and they sent me the Kmz for my future references.

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.

Sandamadala is a mountain situated at the northern border of knuckles massiff. We planned this hike during a dry day. We travelled to Naula via Kandy and Matale and then we turned to Elahera road and again turned to Opalgala road at Ambana junction.

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

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.

The Shaheen Mountain is located near the hotel. It’s a 2 Km Hike from the Hotel and provides an Ella rock hike like experience and view from the peak. On the way we can visit the Upper Hunnas waterfall too. The mountain was named as Shaheen mountain by the hotel as it is one of the nesting site of the Shaheen Falcon.

Kaluthara District is blessed with number of beautiful tiny waterfalls. This is my second experience of cascades of Kaluthara and surrounding Buddhist Hermitages.

Waduwawa was one of my friends home village. Ever since I had heard about the lovely area from him I always wanted to pay a visit. Early morning after finishing a quick hike to Yogamu kanda we started to explore along the Polgahawela – Narammala road which ran through Waduwawa.

After visiting at Karagahathenna Mini World’s end, I was dreaming to camp there to enjoy the sunrise. This is our story about camping at Karagahathenna Mini World’s end and trekking to another beauty called Sera Ella.