This is the first time that my wife visited peak wilderness for the pilgrimage of holy foot-print. We had this on a poya day as the Uda Maluwa is open on poya days. We headed to Hatton by night mail the previous day and we have arranged a van to pick up us from there and to Nallathanniya for Rs.3,500/-. We started our hike in the dawn and slowly we were able to reach the summit at 12 noon and fortunately, the Uda Maluwa was open for worship.

After the Covid-19 pandemic situation, we had our first journey to Sripada on Erathna route especially to check about the status of the name boards and dust bins which we were placed in December 2019 during our Cleaning project. We informed to PHI Kuruwita and had this hike without informing anyone as the offseason hike is not yet started at that time.

We were lucky to invited from Manusath Derana to lead the cleaning project on Kuruwita – Erathna route on this massive project. As we planned we came to the Galwangediya Ambalama and get down via Erathna route for cleaning and collecting garbage. It took all over the day and Derana has provided garbage bags and some stuff for the participants and it was much easier for everyone too.

This is to show the rare beauty of Peak Wilderness forest reserve under heavy storm an rainy season. All of these photos and videos were taken during the off season by few of members at සමනල කන්ද රසික එකමුතුව. They were able to experienced this amazing views during their journey which was had unexpected situation like this. You can see the beauty of Siripa trails from this report asyou don’t need to get this physical experience as it is rare and dangerous.

සති තුනක වගේ කාලයක් තුල සංවිධානය වුනු අපගේ මෙම වැඩසටහන අපි හිතුවටත් වඩා හොදට සාර්ථක වුනා. උතුම් ගෞතම ශ්‍රී පාදස්ථානයට සහ සමනල වනපෙතට ආදරය කරන පිරිසක් ලෙස මෙම එකමුතුව හරහා එකතු වුනු අපි ලබන සතියේ පොහොය දිනෙන් එළඹෙන 2019/2020 සිරිපා වාරය උදෙසා අපෙන් යමක් කිරීමට කතිකාවක් ගොඩ නැගුනු හෙයින් අප විවිධ මුලාශ්‍ර හරහා අපිට කරන්න පුළුවන් සුදුසුම සහ පලාදයිම වැඩේ මොකද්ද කියලා හොයද්දි තමයි අපිට කුරුවිට එරත්න මාර්ගයේ පවතින මුලික පහසුකම් වැඩි දියුණු කිරීම සහ ශ්‍රමදානයක් සිදු කිරීමට අදහස ජනිත වුනේ. මේ සඳහා අප නිවැරදි ලෙස රාජ්‍ය අංශ හරහා පැමිණිය යුතු නිසාවෙන් අපගේ සහයට ශ්‍රීපාද සේවා මහජන සෞඛ්‍ය පරීක්ෂක ප්‍රදීප් මහතා හා සම්බන්ද වීමට ලැබුනා.

A little drizzle started, and the leaves were dripping with water and they made our clothes wet as we brushed past them. However, we decided to walk through it since we were little too lazy to open our heavy backpacks that early of the walk. At the end of the paved road we turned back, and we saw a golden painted dagoba among the neighboring mountain.

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It is November the month before the official Sri pada season and I just couldn’t resist not visiting Adams peak before the crowds took over. I and Thinu were wondering whether to go to Sinharaja or Adams peak and suddenly the weather seem to be settling off so we decided to do an off season hike. Early morning we arrived at Kuruwita where we had breakfast and took the first bus (6.10am) to Erathna and from there took a trishaw to Adawi kanda (there is a bus to Adavi kanda at 7.45am). Sharp at 7 we started the hike and off we went through the overgrown mana section. The humid environment started to cause few problems within no time but we proceeded continuously.

We started the journey from Petta CTB stand around 2PM on 21st Friday, 2014. There was a Rathnapura bus and we took it to go to Kuruwita. It was around 4.30 when we got down from kuruwita. Our aim was to go up to Erathna and stay there. However after getting down at Kuruwita, we were lucky to catch the last bus that goes up to Adewikanda which is the last point that public transport is available during Sri Pada season.

Sri Pada(ශ්රීd පාද) /Adam’s peak one of my favorites places in Sri Lanka. After having seven visits to Sri Pada I wanted to do it in a combination of trails during off season. I selected Kuruwita-Erathna trail for climbing up and Rajamale-Sandagalathanna (සදගල තැන්න) route for getting down.

Bunch of people at our office decided to climb Sripada off season back in 2007. I’ve involved in many hikes before, but I knew 12KM + is not an easy one. We arrived at Erathna day prior to our hike and stood at one of our colleague’s relatives place.

Since my friends and I had some free time amid closed universities, we decided to seek some adventure: a hike that was in our minds for a long time, an off season journey to Adam’s peak and we chose Kuruwita-Erathna trail.