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Today's Most Viewed

  1. Dreams Do Come True, Maragala-kanda (1111m) The Paradise Of Monaragala 29 views
  2. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 14 views
  3. Back to Yahangala (1220m) 13 views
  4. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 13 views
  5. Waterfalls of Colombo District 12 views
  6. Dhanigala / Kandegama the Alien Mountain 11 views
  7. Ella-Full Package 10 views
  8. Rural Kohonawala where the sun rises at 9am and vanishes at 3pm 9 views
  9. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 8 views
  10. බිසෝගල-Bisogala (823m)-Highest peak of Kurunegala district 7 views

This Week's

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 106 views
  2. Dreams Do Come True, Maragala-kanda (1111m) The Paradise Of Monaragala 63 views
  3. Days at Chilaw 55 views
  4. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 54 views
  5. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 51 views
  6. Back to Yahangala (1220m) 40 views
  7. Uda Lakshapana Gala / Saptha Kanya / Seven Virgins (1569m) hike 36 views
  8. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 36 views
  9. Scenic Peacock Hills (1518m) + Kadiyanlena & Galboda Waterfalls 35 views
  10. First Ever Camping at “Haritha Kanda”, Bogawanthalawa 34 views

This Month's

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 386 views
  2. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 266 views
  3. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 240 views
  4. Misty point-Ambokka (1159m) and Selagama Mini world’s end 160 views
  5. Bulathkohupitiya-Narangala Hike (880m) 154 views
  6. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 151 views
  7. Dhanigala / Kandegama the Alien Mountain 143 views
  8. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 141 views
  9. Monkey Mountain (520m)…….A part of Viyana Hela 133 views
  10. Dreams Do Come True, Maragala-kanda (1111m) The Paradise Of Monaragala 132 views

All-Time

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 45,149 views
  2. Aliyawetunaela Hike – 1665m (අලියාවැටුණඇල) 31,918 views
  3. Camping trip to Meemure – One of the best trips ever!!! 30,030 views
  4. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 26,736 views
  5. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 25,534 views
  6. Waterfalls of Colombo District 24,542 views
  7. සබරගමුවේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ කන්ද (Paraviyangala) 18,917 views
  8. Scenic Hike to Wangedigala 18,878 views
  9. ගලේ බණ්ඩාර දෙවියන්ගේ අඩවියේ පිහිටි රාවණා රජු මල දවස රජුට ජනතාව ගරු බුහුමන් දැක් වූ ස්තානය (යහන්ගල/Yahangala 1220m)... 18,121 views
  10. Great Western (6th highest mountain in Sri Lanka- 2212m) Once in a life time HIKE! 17,344 views

Days at Chilaw

This is my two days experience at Chilaw to visit common tourist attractions.

A quick hike to Dumbara Ella at Ingiriya

The area called Dumbara will come across after passing Ella Dewalaya (ඇල්ල ලග දේවාලය) following Ingiriya town in Panadura-Rathnapura road (A 8). You have to cross the bridge over Kalu Ganga at Elle Dewalaya and turn to right to go to Dumbara. This shady road and misty treetops give the feeling of Knuckles-Dumbara when you drive there.

Wife’s first Pilgrimage of Sripada in the off-season

This is the first time that my wife visited peak wilderness for the pilgrimage of holy foot-print. We had this on a poya day as the Uda Maluwa is open on poya days. We headed to Hatton by night mail the previous day and we have arranged a van to pick up us from there and to Nallathanniya for Rs.3,500/-. We started our hike in the dawn and slowly we were able to reach the summit at 12 noon and fortunately, the Uda Maluwa was open for worship.

Beauty of Bandaragama – වීදාගම වැව (වල්ගම වැව/ ලෝකපිල වැව)

දින දින නොඅඩු දින පුද පැවති මනහර
දනමන රඳන සැදි ගෙඋයන් සිරිත් සර
වැජඹෙන පසිඳු මහ රයිගම්පුර අතුර
බබළන සොඳුරු වීදාගම මහ වෙහෙර

Exploring the Labuheladola Waterfall chain and Gonamagulana Fall

Labuheladola Waterfall chain is a hidden waterfall in the area as there is a risky path but we were get notified of this from one of our contact at the Gawawragiriya. After that, he was able to give the exact details of the area and the path and advised us to be more careful as the path is too risky.

A relaxed journey to Dumbara and Elle Kanda Fall

We had another day to enjoy by hunting a few hidden waterfalls in Horana and Ellagawa which were we noted during our previous journeys. We headed from Bandaragama and continue the first visit to Ella Kanda Ella/ Elle Kanda Fall/ Elle Kanda Ella which is near to the famous Ella Kanda Dewalaya. This was what we identified on our previous journey to Wanahami Cave complex.

Scenic hike to Bambugala via Narangamuwa

Bambugala is a small tower type peak situated near to the Narangamuwa Lakegala/ Komalewegala. The hike should start from Narangamuwa and offline GPS is needed to find the exact locations without following any wrong directions. It is not far from the Narangamuwa but we can follow the usual pathway which is from Narangamuwa village to Komalewegala via Uyangomuwa.

Bypassing Uyangomuwa we can get entered to the left side forest where the Rehessa located. And after that, we can directly go to the Bambugala plains as we can see the Bambugala at Rehessa. Bambugala plain has a small slope and we can follow the ridge of the plain up to the Bambugala peak. The tallest peak looks like a Cylinder which is called in Sinhala as “Bambu”

Be more careful once you step into the summit of the peak as it has a very limited area to climb. It is not suitable to climb this during a heavy windy season as if something got wrong you will have died.

Kumana…..other than bird watching.

Kumana National Park is famous for bird watching but there are enough things to do. This is our two days story at Kumana around Kirigal Bay bungalow.

Exploring Galmulla Caves and Kaluwala Falls

This hike was planned by Nirosh as he has noticed this place according to a blog post. After I joined with him at Bandaragama we headed to the location and parked our bike near a village house and walked along the footpath. There was a small path but it is not much clear. However, within a few minutes, we were able to reach the cave complex, and the environment and the caves are really attractive and beautiful. Below is the blog post that Nirosh kept and we followed.

Off season on Erathna route after the Covid-19

After the Covid-19 pandemic situation, we had our first journey to Sripada on Erathna route especially to check about the status of the name boards and dust bins which we were placed in December 2019 during our Cleaning project. We informed to PHI Kuruwita and had this hike without informing anyone as the offseason hike is not yet started at that time.

Erathna route cleaning project with Derana

We were lucky to invited from Manusath Derana to lead the cleaning project on Kuruwita – Erathna route on this massive project. As we planned we came to the Galwangediya Ambalama and get down via Erathna route for cleaning and collecting garbage. It took all over the day and Derana has provided garbage bags and some stuff for the participants and it was much easier for everyone too.

Angamedilla A Lesser Know National Park

This July (post COVID19 era) we went to Girithale and on our Girithale visit we got a chance to explore Angammedilla park which is not a popular tourist destination.

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