Galle Fort (Sinhala: ගාලු කොටුව Galu Kotuwa; Tamil: காலிக் கோட்டை, romanized: Kālik Kōṭṭai), in the Bay of Galle on the southwest coast of Sri Lanka, was built first in 1588 by the Portuguese, then extensively fortified by the Dutch during the 17th century from 1649 onwards. It is a historical, archaeological and architectural heritage monument, which even after more than 432 years maintains a polished appearance, due to extensive reconstruction work done by Archaeological Department of Sri Lanka.

Year and Month Andagala-2017 December 30th Elugala / Wawugala-2018 December 03rd Maraluwawa RMW- 2018 September 09th Ethugala-2019 December 15th Number of Days Altogether one day is enough Crew Andagala-Anupama, Eshan, Nuwan, Achintha, Anupama’s friend and Myself Elugala / Wawugala-Anupama, Nuwan and Myself Maraluwawa RMW- Anupama, Sanjeewa and Myself Ethugala-Solo Accommodation Not Applicable Transport By bus, […]

මහමෙව්නාව භාවනා අසපු සංචිතයේ ආරම්භක භාවනා මධ්‍යස්ථානය සේ ම වත්මන් මූලස්ථානය ලෙසට ද ක්‍රියාත්මක වනුයේ පොල්ගහවෙල වඩුවාවේ පිහිටි, මහමෙව්නාව භාවනා අසපුව යි. සුන්දර කුඩා කඳු ගැටයක් ආශ්‍රිතව පිහිටා තිබෙන මෙම අසපුව, දහම් පිපාසිත සුවහසක් මිනිසුන් ගේ දහම් පිපාසාව සංසිඳවා ගැනීම පිණිස අමා දම් පිරි සොඳුරු විලක් වැනි ය.

Kalpitiya is located in Puttalam district, North Western province of Sri Lanka. It is known for its natural environment. It consists of 14 islands. It has a total area of 16.73 km2. The people of Kalpitiya are mostly fishermen. It is now developing as a tourist destination. 

Once ghost towns along the Puttlum – Mannar coastal line bordering Wilpattu National Park, these small towns and villages have now woken up form the 30 year slumber after the end of the LTTE terrorist occupation.

This stretch of sea was world famous for thousands of years for for producing finest pearls in the world but today a waste land with few fishing villages due to over exploitation. Portuguese, Dutch and British all had considerable interest in the region and the best example is the massive bungalow of the British Governor, Sir Frederick North (1798-1805) built for the supervision of pearl fishery operations in the region.

I and Nirosh had another sudden ride to see some waterfalls situated at the border of Western Province and Sabaragamuwa province. Unfortunately that time was bit dried and we couldn’t see much water in few waterfalls. How ever we were able to see 5 waterfalls on that day and couldn’t reach to two more falls located in Labugama due to the time. Hence, I hope to see them and Kumari fall, Ella Uda Ella again soon after a rainy season in future.

“වවුල්පනේ භූගත හිරිගල් ගුහාව“ යනුවෙන් පසිඳු මේ ලෙනට එම නම ලැබී ඇත්තේ, ඈත අතීතයේ සිට ම මෙය කිරි වවුල් පාරාදීසයක්ව පවතින නිසාවෙනි. ප්‍රධාන උමං දොර තුළින් ලෙන තුළට පිවිසෙන විට, මුලින් ම දැනෙනුයේ ඉසිලිය නොහැකි ‘වවුල් ගඳකි‘. දස ලක්ෂ සංඛ්‍යාත කිරි වවුලන්ගේ ප්‍රධානතම නිවහන වන ලෙන, නිරතුරුවම අන්ධකාරයෙහි නිමග්නව පවතී. උන්ගේ නොකන්කළු හඬ එක ම කන්කරච්චලයක් වැන්න.මෙහි දිග මීටර් 52 ක් පමණ වේ. මේ ලෙන වඩා හොඳින් බලාකියා ගැනීමට, විදුලි පන්දමක් ඇවැසි ය. එමෙන් ම, නිතිපතා පොද වැස්සක් මෙන් පතිත වන වවුල් බෙටිවලින් බේරීම සඳහා, කුඩයක් වැනි කිසියම් ආවරණයක් ද අවශ්‍ය වේ. එපමණක් ද නොව, වවුල් පැටවුන්ගේ මසට වහවැටී සිටින යම් යම් විසකුරු සර්පයන් ද මෙහි ගැවසෙන බව කල්පනාවට ගත යුතුව ඇත.

Heagasulla mountain is  a very beautiful destination but it is more risky than we expected. This is the forest called VRR Forest Reserve (Victoria-Randenigala-Rantambe). We had our first visit to VRR Reserve for the Galpadihela and Kosgolla mountain hike on October 2017. Before that we reached to the Golumale which is at the border of VRR Forest reserve.

Exploring the west fall of the Walawe river is in my list for more than 6 years, I know this fall from the book written by Dr Ebehad Kawutsh (A Guide to Sri Lankan Waterfalls). But due to the forest path difficulty mentioned in the book I postponed this for several times. But on this day I explored the waterfall deeply surfing the google maps satellite and 3D maps. Then I found that I don’t want to start my hike from Mulgama village and have the dangerous forest hike around where the wild elephants are roaming.

My First hike to Uthuwan Kanda done in 2003 when I’m in grade 10. I still remember that we went there as Alter service association of our church. We went to a Church at Mawanella and in the evening our Rev. Fr. took us to show the Uthuwan Kanda. We were guided by a villager and we sent to the top of the mountain but our Fr. didn’t give the permission to climb up the giant rocks. This is a beautiful mountain in this area and a best place to check the surrounding and it was clear that Saradiel used this mountain for that purpose. This is the beginning of the valley of central province mountains.

After a decade I was able to visit this smallest beauty again with my Sobasiri friends and were able to climb up the mountain. Those days there were no many people around hence we feel the freedom. Later we went to a small waterfall called “Bo Ella” and had a wash on our return journey from Kandy after another adventure.

Year and Month  September-2019 Number of Days  One Crew  02 Accommodation  N/A Transport  Motor Bicycles Activities  Hiking, Nature Exploring, Photography, Sightseeing Weather  Good Route  Colombo -> Ratnapura -> Haputale -> Kumbalwela -> Ella -> Passara Road-> Namunukula -> Club Junction -> Wewekele -> Bambaragala Pathana/ Bibile Kanda Tips, Notes and Special remark Carry enough water […]

Okanda is a small hamlet on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka at the official entrance to the Kumana National Park. Just before the ticketing office of Kumana a small lane toward the sea will take you the Okanda Devalaya on a rocky outcrop on the beach.

Kudumbigala monastic complex was built in 246 BC, during the time of King Devanampiyatissa. It was first established as a refuge for the Buddhist monks who wanted to get away from the busy Cities. Archaeologists had recovered over 200 rock caves belonging to this forgotten monastery.