Next day morning we start our journey & first we went to Trinco Maritime & Naval Museum. It is very useful for school children to get good knowledge.

Next day morning we start our journey & went to Nilaweli Beach.Next we went to Pigeon Island. After 10-15 minutes boat ride we reached to island.

Next day morning we start our journey & went to Trincomalee. On the way we went to Kiralagala Site. Before Horowpothana town we have to turn left & have to go few km’s to site. It is very important & very beautiful place. Its main attraction was very beautiful & massive pond. It was well planed & massive Arama complex.

Next day morning we start our journey & went to Anuradhapura. On the way we went to Awkana Raja Maha Viharaya. Around 3.00 p.m we reached to Anuradhapura.

Again long awaited August vacation came. We decided to arrange a tour like last year we do. Our plan was first visit to Anuradhapura & arrange other places later.

After went through some trip reports in Lakdasun forum, finally we decided to visit this remarkable estate which locates in Banadarawela area.

Sandamadala is a peak with 800m height situated at the edge of Knuckles massif. It can be easily climbed through a mana patch from remote village Kotagala at Matale district.

Ok, back to Runakanda. This is a part of Sinharaja actually but is now being proposed as a separate Forest Reserve. I hope this will get legalized soon as we’re fast losing our forest areas. Even Runakanda like many wet zone rain forests have been ravaged by the Walla Patta Hunters. According to villagers many outsider had come in gangs and stayed inside the forest living in makeshift shelters or caves chopping down Walla Patta trees and making loads of money. The FD and Police are in high alert even though the damage has already been done thus the reason why you shouldn’t venture into these areas on your own.

We heard that the FD is now distributing Walla Patta plants for commercial planting where they help with the chemicals to produce that specific bit of residue after 5 years. At the age of 8, the tree is good to cut down and harvest. Hopefully these will put a stop to the destruction of our virgin forests.

Bana Samanala and Darmarajagala are two fascinating peaks seen at Sri Pada Maluwa. This is our attempt to conquer these peaks in off season of Sri Pada.

We stay 2 day’s in Mathale & next day morning we went to our next destination – Mawanella. On the way we visited Dalada Maligawa , Kadugannawa Railway Museum , Dowson Tower & Kadugannawa Mawela Viharaya.

We stay at relatives house in Kaikawala. Next day morning we went to Riverston. We took bus to Raththota & from there we took a three wheel. First we went to Riverston & next to Sera Ella.

We leave from Minneriya around 5.00 p.m & our next destination was Sigiriya. We stay in our relatives place in Sigiriya. In the evening we went to Kandalama wewa & have a good time in water. Next day morning we went to Sigiriya.