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Trip Reports Archive » Trips Filed Under Badulla

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Today's Most Viewed

  1. Gal Koth Kanda (631m) ගල් කොත් කන්ද 14 views
  2. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 12 views
  3. දෙහෙනකන්දෙන් සිරිපා කරුණාකර උඩමාලිබොඩෙන් බැස්සෙමු (Sri Pada from Dehenakanda to Udamaliboda)... 12 views
  4. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 11 views
  5. Scenic Peacock Hills (1518m) + Kadiyanlena & Galboda Waterfalls 10 views
  6. Camping at Gawarawila plains 9 views
  7. Waterfalls of Colombo District 9 views
  8. Knuckles Duwili Eli through Walpolamulla – The Most Wanted trip of the year 9 views
  9. First Ever Camping at “Haritha Kanda”, Bogawanthalawa 8 views
  10. Kobonilagala Hike/ Aliya Kanda -1556m (කොබෝනීලගල) 8 views

This Week's

  1. Dhanigala / Kandegama the Alien Mountain 54 views
  2. Knuckles Duwili Falls in and out / නකල්ස් දූවිලි ඇලි 53 views
  3. දෙහෙනකන්දෙන් සිරිපා කරුණාකර උඩමාලිබොඩෙන් බැස්සෙමු (Sri Pada from Dehenakanda to Udamaliboda)... 47 views
  4. Gombaniya /ගොම්බානිය (1906m)-Highest of Knuckles mountain range 45 views
  5. Nuwaragala the castle with a heavenly pond! 43 views
  6. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 40 views
  7. Alagalla mountain hike (1140m) 39 views
  8. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 36 views
  9. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 36 views
  10. Trekking from Bambarella to Meemure with hiking Wamarapugala (වමාරපුගල) (1551m) 36 views

This Month's

  1. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 173 views
  2. Nuwaragala the castle with a heavenly pond! 130 views
  3. දෙහෙනකන්දෙන් සිරිපා කරුණාකර උඩමාලිබොඩෙන් බැස්සෙමු (Sri Pada from Dehenakanda to Udamaliboda)... 110 views
  4. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 103 views
  5. Gombaniya /ගොම්බානිය (1906m)-Highest of Knuckles mountain range 102 views
  6. කුවේණි විජයට දෙස් තැබූ යක්දෙස්සා ගල (Yakdessagala 540m) 99 views
  7. Dhanigala / Kandegama the Alien Mountain 97 views
  8. Knuckles Duwili Falls in and out / නකල්ස් දූවිලි ඇලි 96 views
  9. First Ever Camping at “Haritha Kanda”, Bogawanthalawa 95 views
  10. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 89 views

All-Time

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 45,625 views
  2. Aliyawetunaela Hike – 1665m (අලියාවැටුණඇල) 32,047 views
  3. Camping trip to Meemure – One of the best trips ever!!! 30,091 views
  4. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 26,982 views
  5. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 25,816 views
  6. Waterfalls of Colombo District 24,832 views
  7. Scenic Hike to Wangedigala 19,051 views
  8. සබරගමුවේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ කන්ද (Paraviyangala) 19,014 views
  9. ගලේ බණ්ඩාර දෙවියන්ගේ අඩවියේ පිහිටි රාවණා රජු මල දවස රජුට ජනතාව ගරු බුහුමන් දැක් වූ ස්තානය (යහන්ගල/Yahangala 1220m)... 18,260 views
  10. Great Western (6th highest mountain in Sri Lanka- 2212m) Once in a life time HIKE! 17,495 views

Conservation Project No. 3: Conquering & Cleansing – Ella Rock & Namunukula…

Ella Rock is more popular among foreigners than locals, I can safely say. Almost all the foreigners who visit Sri Lanka go to Ella (they pronounce it as Ela rather than Ella with double Ls). It’s said that Ella is among the three mostly visited places in Sri Lanka by the foreigners after Dalada Maligawa and Pinnawala. Climbing Ella Rock was (before our journey) said to be a relatively easier task and there was no guide needed. So we too decided to attempt it without a guide. I don’t usually like to do any hike without a guide as the pros always outweigh the cons of having a guide even though we have to pay him some money. I believe it is money well-spent as those people who guide us will learn to protect those environmental treasures instead of trying to make easy money by destroying them.

Now to find the correct trail to the Ella Rock. Please follow this and you’re not going to miss your way. Walk past Kital Ella Station (when coming from Ella) and continue for about 300m until you find a road to your left hand side. It’s not quite prominent when coming along the railway line so keep an eye out for it. It’s just a gravel (rather earth) road and take it and after a 50-100 meters it’ll cross the stream that feeds the Ravana Ella (not the Bambaragama Ella found on Ella-Wellawaya Road) with a concrete bridge. You can of course see the Ravana Ella when coming from Ella towards Kital Ella. Now just follow this road all the way to the summit. Fairly straight forward, isn’t it? It’s about 2-3km moderate hike to the Ella Rock.

A Four Day Trip to Uva

We started our trip on 7 January morning & we reached to Badulla around 12.30 p.m. Firstly we searched room for stay. First we visit to Dunhinda Fall & evening we went to Muthiyangana Raja Maha Viharaya.

For the True Love for the Nature – Namunukula

Year and Month March , 2016 Number of Days two separate trips Crew  3 & 12 Accommodation n/a Transport on foot Activities Hiking Weather – Route  – Tips, Notes and Special remark Always step forward to protect mother nature. even the smallest act of yours may trigger a huge change in the future. Author Kasun […]

Secrets of Badulla

Ah it’s time to do another “Secrets of….” album and this time I wanted to do one on Badulla. Look out for the new additions when you guys pay a visit to Badulla again.

New Year Rituals in Uva – Tour de Waterfalls 17…

Now that I’ve taken it off my chest, let’s see what was in store for me upon arriving in Kumbalwela where the Ella-Wellawaya Road begins. It had gone 8am, much later than I’d planned but there was hardly anything I could do about the crawling bus, when we reached Kumbalwela and waited for a bus to get us to Ella. The under construction road was full of dust and waiting proved to be a huge challenge but after it felt like an eternity, there was a bus and we got in quickly.

My efforts to catch up on sleep became futile so had a tough time waiting till we reached Belihul Oya for breakfast. Pan Cake just out of the oven washed down with ginger-flavored plain tea brought the active adventurer in me. From there the journey became more pleasant. The Walawe Valley stretched into miles with vivid colors. Finally around 8.30am, we reached Kumbalwela and got off the bus. Then it was another sometime before a bus arrived for us to get to Ella.

Project Kohonawala – Donation of Wheelchair…

So thanks to them all, the fee was paid and the wheelchair was ready to be taken but how we were to take it from Colombo all the way to Kohonawala was the million dollar question. As it was custom built so that it could handle the rugged and uneven terrain of Kohonawala, the wheelchair was, compared to an ordinary one, larger and heavier making it impossible to transport by bus. We didn’t wanna send it by train either in case it got damaged in the process as there were many cables and handles that might not survive a train journey amid many other goods to Badulla. Dismantling it was out of the question as we had no technical knowledge about many screws and bolts attached to it so had to take the full packaged assembled as it was.

Again it was Ana who came to our rescue offering his SUV to take the wheelchair to Kohonawala. So we set the dates for 22-23 Aug but due to the busy schedule NG was unable to join us but Athula and I joined Ana for the Journey. Ana had gone and picked up the wheelchair from the manufacturer at Borella in advance which took the whole back space of the vehicle and we left around 3.00am on 22 August while the rains were hitting us from all around.

Eye camp at Kohonnawala

eading Sri’s report made a few of us think of getting the wheel chair that was needed by the little boy in Kohonawala. With Sri’s help we made contact with the Hamuduruwo to get a bit more information. During the conversation he spoke of many older people who had bad eye sight but were unable not get spectacles. So could we arrange for something to be done about it?

Bambaragala Pathana, Namunukula & Attractions around Ella

The five-day holiday following Vesak Poya was a long awaited event in the calendar and we planned to venture into an area that we have never explored – Namunukula and Ella. Ella of course we have passed many times en route from Wellawaya, but Namunukula was a totally new destination.

Laboring Up to the Sun-Deprived Lost World – Kohonawala…

This is an isolated village completely surrounded by numerous mountains making it located in the bottom of a deep ravine. Badulla-Passara road seems to be running around this and a few other isolated villages. Namunukula-borne Loggal Oya flows between the border of Urumeethenna, the last village with main-line-supplied electricity, and Kohonawala before joining the mighty Mahaweli at Mahiyanganaya, making it further isolated.

The story behind the start of this village has many different variations. According to the folklore, they origins run far deep thousands of years backwards where the indigenous people of SL, the Veddhas, roamed this island at will. According to one old farmer, the leader of that Veddhas in the village was an elite archer. Once he won a contest of shooting an arrow through a golden ring thus getting the name “Ranpath Mudiyanselage” bestowed upon his clan. Surprisingly all the people in Kohonawala has that as their surname to-date. Everybody is called R.M. and their given name.

Loitering Around Passara

We got off the train from Badulla in the morning after a long 12 hour journey. The list of “must do” in Uva province was getting longer ever since Ashan started roaming in Uva and his reports started flooding into the Lakdasun forum. We were hoping to cover a few of those places and 5 of us were on a hiking trip, hoping to do 3 trails in 3 days. Our accommodation was close to Passara so we quickly did shopping and got into a Passara bus.

Refreshing my memories of Namunukula after a decade

There are several pathways to approach Namunukula. Once I have been there from Namunukula village (a decade ago). I want to go there from 3rd mile post in Badulla-Passara road. It is accepted as the easiest pathway to climb the highest peak of Namunukula. Because you can reach the base of the mountain by a vehicle and then have to go through the tea estate till you meet the last part of the trail through forest covering.

Life along the railways of Uva (Badulla to Ambewela)

It was end of the monsoons and everywhere seemed to be flooded. I did have few free days in hand but couldn’t think of a better thing to do other than a rail hike. Since I dint get a chance to do a long distance hike after last year’s 90km “Pada Yathra” I thought of walking 70km along the railway backwards from Badulla. Usually many hikers do not do the Badulla – Haputale stretch because nothing much to see but you won’t believe, there are plenty to see around.

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