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Trip Reports Archive » Trips Filed Under Bowaththagala

Today's Most Viewed

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 17 views
  2. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 15 views
  3. Ella-Full Package 10 views
  4. Back to Yahangala (1220m) 9 views
  5. Arangala the centered rock (792m) 9 views
  6. Longest isolated mountain of Sri Lanka – Galgiriya Mountain – ගල්ගිරිය කන්ද 7 views
  7. Waterfalls of Colombo District 7 views
  8. Five peaks of knuckles (1862m) 6 views
  9. Dreams Do Come True, Maragala-kanda (1111m) The Paradise Of Monaragala 6 views
  10. Waterfall hunting in Waththegama-Bambaralla road 5 views

This Week's

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 92 views
  2. Dreams Do Come True, Maragala-kanda (1111m) The Paradise Of Monaragala 66 views
  3. Days at Chilaw 57 views
  4. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 53 views
  5. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 38 views
  6. Back to Yahangala (1220m) 35 views
  7. Waterfalls of Colombo District 35 views
  8. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 32 views
  9. First Ever Camping at “Haritha Kanda”, Bogawanthalawa 31 views
  10. Scenic Peacock Hills (1518m) + Kadiyanlena & Galboda Waterfalls 31 views

This Month's

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 389 views
  2. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 254 views
  3. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 242 views
  4. Misty point-Ambokka (1159m) and Selagama Mini world’s end 158 views
  5. Bulathkohupitiya-Narangala Hike (880m) 156 views
  6. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 152 views
  7. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 136 views
  8. Dreams Do Come True, Maragala-kanda (1111m) The Paradise Of Monaragala 134 views
  9. Monkey Mountain (520m)…….A part of Viyana Hela 133 views
  10. Dhanigala / Kandegama the Alien Mountain 133 views

All-Time

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 45,151 views
  2. Aliyawetunaela Hike – 1665m (අලියාවැටුණඇල) 31,918 views
  3. Camping trip to Meemure – One of the best trips ever!!! 30,030 views
  4. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 26,738 views
  5. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 25,535 views
  6. Waterfalls of Colombo District 24,545 views
  7. සබරගමුවේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ කන්ද (Paraviyangala) 18,917 views
  8. Scenic Hike to Wangedigala 18,878 views
  9. ගලේ බණ්ඩාර දෙවියන්ගේ අඩවියේ පිහිටි රාවණා රජු මල දවස රජුට ජනතාව ගරු බුහුමන් දැක් වූ ස්තානය (යහන්ගල/Yahangala 1220m)... 18,124 views
  10. Great Western (6th highest mountain in Sri Lanka- 2212m) Once in a life time HIKE! 17,345 views

The Long-Awaited Breakthrough at Kumana National Park – Pictorial Story 2…

I hope you liked the new version of report which I’ve introduced which sort of told you the story of our wildlife, especially the plight of them in Wilpattu thanks to a Government Minister who’d taken the law into his hands destroying many acres of precious lands belonging to the buffer zone of Wilpattu by giving it to his supporters. It’s just pathetic the way things happen even though the Ministry of Environment is under the President himself. We also saw how they started building Mini Hydro Power Plants at Handagiriya destroying many more cascades very recently. It’s just so saddening to see the people who’ve been elected to safeguard these things help destroy them for monetary benefits. I hope they will soon see the erroneous ways they’ve been handling our natural resources and get back on track to protect them. However the million dollar question is, “Will it be too late?”.

So, just like that journey, I’m going to plunge straight into business and leave the fairy tale stuff aside. I’m sure the story of the wildlife in Kumana, the farthest away from Colombo, is much more interesting than my vivid imagination. However, just a bit of foreplay wouldn’t be too much to bear I suppose. Well, the newest of our crazes has become the wildlife, probably due to the less appealing states of my beloved waterfalls. Thankfully Hasi too shares the same taste and ever since Wilpattu, we’ve started to manic chase of our wildlife.

From West Coast to East Coast (Exploring Kumana National Park)

With the reopening of the Kumana national park early this year it had been on our priority list for quite some time and finally we managed to make that dream come true. The camp sites were booked more than three months in advance as there is no other accommodation south of Arugam Bay. Wildlife department is trying to rebuild the destroyed circuit bungalows and hopefully we will get to use them before long.

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.

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