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Today's Most Viewed

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 95 views
  2. Dreams Do Come True, Maragala-kanda (1111m) The Paradise Of Monaragala 64 views
  3. Narangala the second peak of Uva (1500m)! 37 views
  4. Modern day Palabaddala trail to Adams peak (2013) 31 views
  5. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 30 views
  6. The Pilgrimage to Sri Pada via Kuruwita-Erathna route 24 views
  7. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 20 views
  8. Herbal Paradise Dolukanda (600m) 20 views
  9. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 18 views
  10. A walk to Hanthana Mountain Range 18 views

This Week's

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 371 views
  2. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 127 views
  3. Narangala the second peak of Uva (1500m)! 98 views
  4. Camping on Hanthana mountain range (1300m) 94 views
  5. The Pilgrimage to Sri Pada via Kuruwita-Erathna route 86 views
  6. Dreams Do Come True, Maragala-kanda (1111m) The Paradise Of Monaragala 85 views
  7. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 84 views
  8. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 84 views
  9. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 82 views
  10. Beyond Chariot path…… 78 views

This Month's

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 1,804 views
  2. Camping on Hanthana mountain range (1300m) 450 views
  3. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 422 views
  4. A difficult hike-Hawarimana /හවරිමාන (1120m) 392 views
  5. Narangala the second peak of Uva (1500m)! 357 views
  6. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 297 views
  7. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 245 views
  8. One day hike to Chariot path, Perattasi Mountain and Gerandi Ella falling point. 240 views
  9. Knuckles Duwili Eli through Walpolamulla – The Most Wanted trip of the year 235 views
  10. Scenic Hike to Wangedigala 222 views

All-Time

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 36,028 views
  2. Camping trip to Meemure – One of the best trips ever!!! 29,686 views
  3. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 25,137 views
  4. Waterfalls of Colombo District 22,956 views
  5. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 22,915 views
  6. සබරගමුවේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ කන්ද (Paraviyangala) 17,607 views
  7. ගලේ බණ්ඩාර දෙවියන්ගේ අඩවියේ පිහිටි රාවණා රජු මල දවස රජුට ජනතාව ගරු බුහුමන් දැක් වූ ස්තානය (යහන්ගල/Yahangala 1220m)... 16,980 views
  8. Scenic Hike to Wangedigala 16,777 views
  9. Great Western (6th highest mountain in Sri Lanka- 2212m) Once in a life time HIKE! 16,255 views
  10. Rarely visited places in Trincomalee 15,793 views

Horton Plains to Bambarakanda on foot – a never-to-miss experience for a Hiker

We started at Peradeniya at 5.00 am and reached the trail head, which was about 9 km from the Visitor Centre at Horton Plains towards Ohiya, at 11.00 am. I know six hours to do a distance that was just a little over 100 km was totally unacceptable considering the facts our hired van was so… good, the driver was so… cool, road was so… private, and what was more, we all wanted to get to the trail head as early as possible.

A Three Day Trip to Kumana National Park

My parents told me that we were going to spend three nights camping in Kumana. I had never been there before but had seen a lot of pictures of Kumana taken by my father who had been there several times during the past few months.
This was also going to be my first camping trip in a National Park.

මන්නාරම සහ යාපනය (Mannar & Jaffna)

We started in the morning around six thirty and headed towards Negombo. We traveled in a 4×4 Hilux pickup and had all what was needed such as several cans of water food items and other necessary supplements. From Paliyagoda we traveled along the A3 highway. At Wenappuwa we had our breakfast and we went to the Chilaw rest house for a cup of tea. By 10.30 am we were at Puttalam. As it was a poya day the roads were peaceful and we made it to Puttalam sooner than we thought.

A Three Day Trip to Anuradapura, Polonnaruwa, Minneriya National Park,Sigiriya

We started our trip from Colombo at 4.30 am and we came puttulum at about 7 am and we visited wind mill developing site at Puttulum lagoon. After that we started our journey again through Auradapura and we had our breakfast at beautiful place. We stay at Nuwarawewa rest house. It is reasonable and good accommodation option at Anuradapura. Second day we went to Polonnaruwa through habarana.We stay at Girithale Hotel It is little bit Expensive but you couldn’t get that nature experience any were.

An outdated story of the ruins located out side the ancient city of Polonnaruwa

Before 6.00 am we left Gampaha. Hemantha, coming from Ehetuwewa, a small town at the northern boundary of the Kurunegala Distict, had asked to join with us at Ibbagamuwa junction. However we had to wait more than 1 hour for Hemantha. So we had time enough to have a visit & rest at the famous Bathalegoda tank. On our way we met the young wild elephant who used to rob foods form vehicles passing through, at the Habarana jungle.

Trip to Yala National Park

At around 7.30 – 8.00 am we stopped at a small roadside hut at “Ranna” for breakfast. (We had newly made hoppers & bananas, pancake and poll-roti and plain tea) Then we proceed to Tissa market to purchase the vegetables as all other provisions were purchased from Colombo. (We got fresh village vegetables from tissa) At around 11.00 am we came to Palatupana Office (Yala Entrance) and took about 30mts to get our permit confirmed and they provide us with a Tracker (Dimuthu)

Camping trip to UdaWalawe and driving along the Kalthota scenic road

It was around 6AM when we left Colombo with UdaWalawe national park being our destination. The crew consisted of me and my wife, along with three other close friends from our uni days. We loaded up the camping gear and other paraphernalia to the back of the pick up and I took the wheels for the first part of the journey.
The drive upto Pambahinna was rather uneventful with three stops for breakfast at Awissawella, fuel at Rathnapura and change of the spare tyre at Pelmadulla.

Wilpattu National Park, Horse Mountain, Thumbapanni

Next Day was a big day for us as any of us haven’t been to Wilpattu National Park. Early morning we got up and headed to the park. Mr Chaminda Dissanayake, the owner of Kahala Jeep Safari gave us a great help arranging the best guides and the safari.

Heaven On Earth (Knuckles – Illukkumbura, Reverstan)

I was bit worried because I couldn’t do a trip to knuckles but luck was on my side our guys decided to go on a trip & asked me a place to go  ! After doing the reservations from Baththaramulla we left on an early morning from Colombo to reach Mathale at around 10a.m where we bought all the stuff we needed & lunch packets. We then continued our journey towards Rattota in search of Bambarakiri Falls (fed by water streams of knuckles mountain range).

A Three Day Trip To Nilgala – Gal Oya National Park

We left Colombo at around 4 pm on Friday, planning to stay overnight at the Wildlife Trust TREE centre at Randenigala. We left Kandy at around 7.30 pm after picking up a member of our group. It was a wet night and visibility was poor – interestingly the route tracked on my GPS (which has preloaded 1” topo maps of Sri Lanka) varied quite significantly from the roads marked on the map. We reached the barrier at the reservoir shortly before 10 pm – the road is closed to traffic at 10 pm, and reopened at 6 am, and reached the TREE centre soon afterwards.

Trip to the Southern Hill Country

This was a family trip with other families of my father’s friends joining in. We started from Galle and proceeded via the Galle road up to Waskaduwa (Kalutara) and turned to Bandaragama and then took the route to Ratnapura. The first destination was Kirindi Ella near Pelmadulla. The road up to where the staircase leading to the base of the fall starts was not great but acceptable. The water level was probably just right and it was absolutely deserted. 🙂 Also the vicinity of the fall was unspoilt thankfully.

Trip to Alupola Ella, Ambewela & Bambarakanda Ella

This was a family trip to Bandarawela. We traveled Rathnapura to Balangoda via Wewelwattha to see Dehena, Alupola and Beruwatta waterfalls. Second day we visited Adisham Bungalow and Thangamale sanctuary. Third day we visited Horton plains, New Zealand farm and Hakgala gardens. Last day we visited Bambarakanda falls on the way to home.

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