Finally, I decided to write up this report specially thanking Ashan for reminding me and for his eagerness to see this. In my view, this is the time that our Mother Nature is facing a real challenge of surviving from the people who have no heart to give back for the things they gained from her.

After successfully completing the Chilaw to Mundalama stretch I wanted to do the rest and end the hike at Puttalam.

In 2015 I shifted to Chilaw from Monaragala and I was seeking for places to travel. When I was in Uva I was fond of hiking along the railways and ended up doing rail hikes covering Badulla to Nawalapitiya by foot. So I was wondering what this coastal line would provide me with.

Kokagala is a rock of 640m height situated closer to Padiyathalawa town. This is my experience of hiking Kokagala mountain.

Year and Month  July 2016 Number of Days  Half a day Crew  06 – Prakash, Shashika, Ranga, Kasun, Aruna & My self Accommodation  N/A Transport  Train Activities  Mountain hike & Photography Weather  Excellent Route  Colombo -> Idalgashinna -> Idalgashinna mountain Tips, Notes and Special remark  Start the journey as early as possible Ask direction from […]

We received an information about very poor family in Medagampola in Alawwa. The information we received was hard to believe. Therefore we went to see them after 2 days. Information was correct & we saw their family condition. I don’t have words to say about my feelings when I saw their hut/ shelter.

We had a little bit bad habit from a long time, it is that when my friend have a faraway client visit he get join me to that visit. But with the official permission we make that visit for full time, hence we do the visit early morning and use the rest of the time to our Adventure tours. It is mainly waterfall hunting.

We were enjoying hiking and trekking since 2011 after we entered the University of Colombo. This time we wanted to end the year (2016) with a novel experience. So we decided to camp on a beach and selected the amazing Kalpitiya (Kudawa) beach to fulfill our dream.

Palaitive is an Island situated closer to Jaffna peninsula. It has no inhabitants and Sri Lankan Navy base is situated. This is my experience about short visit at Palaitive Island for it’s annual festival at St. Anthony church.

Longest distance between two railway stations of Sri Lanka is 25.4km between Gal Oya junction and Agbo Pura. Trinco railway line goes through Kawdulla National park and Somawathiya forest reserve in this section. Rail walk along this section will give oppurtunitiy for visiting wild animals.

Wilpaththu NP (විල්පත්තු ජාතික වන උද‍යානය) is the largest (131, 693ha) and oldest national park in Sri Lanka. It is famous for visiting Leopards and wild bears. Special feature of Wilpaththu NP is having water filled natural lakes-Willus.

Galpadihela/ Kosgolla (1105m) mountain is situated closer to Mahiyanganaya. Ancient foot pathway from Ududumbara to Mahiyanganaya was at the base of this mountain. The lake Sora Bora Wewa was built by the giant called Bulatha and his wife has kept about 2000 stone steps along this foot pathway to make “Galpadipela”.