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Trip Reports Archive » Trips Filed Under Badalkumbura

Today's Most Viewed

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 37 views
  2. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 26 views
  3. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 20 views
  4. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 19 views
  5. Waterfall hunting in Waththegama-Bambaralla road 18 views
  6. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 16 views
  7. Waterfalls of Colombo District 15 views
  8. Gombaniya /ගොම්බානිය (1906m)-Highest of Knuckles mountain range 15 views
  9. Kondagala Mountain, the beauty of Loolcandura 14 views
  10. Five peaks of knuckles (1862m) 13 views

This Week's

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 136 views
  2. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 110 views
  3. ගවරා විසූ ගවරවිල (Gawarawila plains) 67 views
  4. First Ever Camping at “Haritha Kanda”, Bogawanthalawa 66 views
  5. Uda Lakshapana Gala / Saptha Kanya / Seven Virgins (1569m) hike 64 views
  6. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 59 views
  7. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 57 views
  8. Knuckles Sphinx-2 / කිනිහිරිගල-2 (1500+m) 54 views
  9. Hike to Balumgala and visit to nearby Attractions 53 views
  10. Waterfalls of Colombo District 53 views

This Month's

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 610 views
  2. First Ever Camping at “Haritha Kanda”, Bogawanthalawa 373 views
  3. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 325 views
  4. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 299 views
  5. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 236 views
  6. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 224 views
  7. Trip to Wewathanna (Lake Plains) 192 views
  8. ගවරා විසූ ගවරවිල (Gawarawila plains) 192 views
  9. Camping on Hanthana mountain range (1300m) 180 views
  10. Uda Lakshapana Gala / Saptha Kanya / Seven Virgins (1569m) hike 176 views

All-Time

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 45,458 views
  2. Aliyawetunaela Hike – 1665m (අලියාවැටුණඇල) 32,012 views
  3. Camping trip to Meemure – One of the best trips ever!!! 30,052 views
  4. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 26,875 views
  5. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 25,672 views
  6. Waterfalls of Colombo District 24,708 views
  7. Scenic Hike to Wangedigala 18,986 views
  8. සබරගමුවේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ කන්ද (Paraviyangala) 18,972 views
  9. ගලේ බණ්ඩාර දෙවියන්ගේ අඩවියේ පිහිටි රාවණා රජු මල දවස රජුට ජනතාව ගරු බුහුමන් දැක් වූ ස්තානය (යහන්ගල/Yahangala 1220m)... 18,188 views
  10. Great Western (6th highest mountain in Sri Lanka- 2212m) Once in a life time HIKE! 17,416 views

The Power of Raging Torrents – Tour de Waterfalls 19…

I did the sensible thing on Ashan’s advice and hired a tuk-tuk. The driver was a friendly person called Ranga and we drove up to the last house where you have to start walking along an irrigation canal for about 400m. The path is now well paved and easy to reach the falls. We met one Mini Hydro Power Plant and Ranga informed that it is now redundant after the main power supply came to the area and he went onto say that the village used to have three such power plants. However all of them have been made redundant since the arrival of national grid. Hurrah!!! I felt like dancing.

We could also see the rocky hill where Kurullangala is. The memories of our back-breaking journey in the recent past sent a shiver down my back. Ranga said that there’s even a path from the top of the Wisari Ella to the Rakkiththakanda Cave Temple where we went last time before the hike. Project sites of Uma Oya could be seen in the distance and the water in the streams has turned into an unusual white color after the ammonia mixed with it as a result of tunnels dug out to take water for the Uma Oya Project. That was quite visible even to the naked eye.

Govindahela (Westministers Abbey) and waterfalls of Badalkumbura

Sometime ago while traveling on Ampara – Siyambalanduwa road I saw a giant box shaped rock and got to know the name “Govindahela”. I was fascinated to climb it but had literally no information about it. Later found an article on Lakdasun forum written by a foreign lady who climbed the rock. But that article was not very encouraging as her experience turned out to be a very tough and difficult one. A couple of years later suddenly there came a report on the forum by – of course – Ahsan, who had climbed it, alone, with not much hassle and once again I started living in my dream.

Mill oya Expedition and few other places

After the preceding days failed attempt in reaching Milla oya falls I decided to give it another try on the very next day. I never wanted to give up knowing that this hidden beauty will not flow as she had been doing all these years in few more months after the newly built mini hydro project starts functioning. So I reached Millebedda early as I could to try and reach the waterfall from the top because visiting it from Walas ella side was a failure.

New Life After Monsoons in UVA

On a gloomy day I took a bus towards Bibile and from there onwards I took another bus towards Alawaththagoda on Lunugala Rd. After getting down from Alawaththagoda and inquiring about Alawaththagoda falls few people directed me further towards Arawakumbura for 1.5km’s after passing a huge bridge I came across a second bridge and continued upstream until I reached a beautiful waterfall called Alawaththagoda Naya Kadura Ella.

Remnants from the past around Wellassa

Since the monsoons begun my journeys around Uva-Wellassa has been hampered. So I finally decided to gamble with the weather and loiter around a bit. There was a long list of archaeologically important places around Buttala and Wellawaya which I have been planning to visit. And since it’s raining and less chances of mountain climbing or forest trekking the set up was ideal for some temple visits but I had to face some unique problems in doing so.

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