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Trip Reports Archive » Trips Filed Under Habarana

Today's Most Viewed

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 27 views
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  5. First Ever Camping at “Haritha Kanda”, Bogawanthalawa 12 views
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  7. Kondagala Mountain, the beauty of Loolcandura 10 views
  8. Lakegala – The Ultimate Rock Climbing Adventure in the Heartland of Ravana’s Kingdom 8 views
  9. Unseen attractions of Wewelthalawa 8 views
  10. Hike to Hunnasgiriya Mountain (1514 m) and near by Attractions 8 views

This Week's

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 122 views
  2. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 54 views
  3. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 43 views
  4. Dreams Do Come True, Maragala-kanda (1111m) The Paradise Of Monaragala 40 views
  5. Story of Victoria 38 views
  6. First Ever Camping at “Haritha Kanda”, Bogawanthalawa 34 views
  7. Hike to Hunnasgiriya Mountain (1514 m) and near by Attractions 34 views
  8. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 33 views
  9. Alagalla mountain hike (1140m) 33 views
  10. Back to Yahangala (1220m) 30 views

This Month's

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 366 views
  2. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 272 views
  3. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 240 views
  4. Misty point-Ambokka (1159m) and Selagama Mini world’s end 161 views
  5. Dhanigala / Kandegama the Alien Mountain 150 views
  6. Bulathkohupitiya-Narangala Hike (880m) 148 views
  7. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 139 views
  8. Back to Yahangala (1220m) 134 views
  9. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 133 views
  10. Monkey Mountain (520m)…….A part of Viyana Hela 125 views

All-Time

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 45,116 views
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  3. Camping trip to Meemure – One of the best trips ever!!! 30,029 views
  4. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 26,726 views
  5. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 25,525 views
  6. Waterfalls of Colombo District 24,520 views
  7. සබරගමුවේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ කන්ද (Paraviyangala) 18,911 views
  8. Scenic Hike to Wangedigala 18,864 views
  9. ගලේ බණ්ඩාර දෙවියන්ගේ අඩවියේ පිහිටි රාවණා රජු මල දවස රජුට ජනතාව ගරු බුහුමන් දැක් වූ ස්තානය (යහන්ගල/Yahangala 1220m)... 18,115 views
  10. Great Western (6th highest mountain in Sri Lanka- 2212m) Once in a life time HIKE! 17,339 views

A day spent at dried Habarana Lake and Minneriya Park

This was the first official trip I had after joining. This was to Habarana Village by Cinnamon for 3 days and we have enjoyed a lot and I and two of my friends had a small adventure on massive Habarana lake as it was fully dried. We walk around the lake and crossed it and again walked for nearly 2Km on the river to explore the atmosphere to get an understanding of the status of a dried lake.

Follow the path of Udaya Dewi Train- Rail walk from Maho to Habarana-Part-2

Udaya Dewi is the train travels between Colombo and Batticalo. This is my experience of rail walk of 70km between Maho to Habarana.

Counting railway sleepers at Elephant Kingdom

Sri Lankan rail tracks run in different environmental locations of the country where you can have different experiences with rail walk. Rail hike along central part gives maximum beauty of the country and costal rail walk is totally different from it. We thought of doing a rail walk in dry zone mainly rail tracks runs through forests.

Visit to Medirigiriya

Medirigiriya (මැදිරිගිරිය) is located closer to Polonnaruwa and it has few tourist attractions. When you visit at Polonnaruwa you can pay a visit at Medirigiriya as well.

Ritigala the Dreadful Mountain (Ariṭṭha Pabbata) 766m

Ritigala the giant of ancient capital Anuradhapura stands tall with an altitude of 766m and is the best view point of north central Sri Lanka. Ritigala is an important asset to us in terms of history, folklore and bio diversity. It is the birth place of Malwatu oya and during the North – East monsoons it receives heavy showers more than any other place in the region. Most of the time there is a veil of mist covering its summit.

Trip to Kaudulla National Park

We left for Kaudulla national park for a Elephant watching safari and reached the park around 3.00. The park entrance was well maintained and there were some peddle boats which the visitors can hire and have a ride in the lake. But unfortunately we had no time. Then we started our safari. The driver took us straight to a place where he was informed that there was a number of elephants on that day. That was a herd of elephants with about 100-120 elephants. That was a stunning view. We enjoyed those 2 hours of our lives to the max

Galkadawala, Kaudulla & Nilaweli – A weekend of Fun and Relaxation

After much planning and anticipation we left Kandy at 8.00 am on 30th October 2010. We had our breakfast of bread, pol sambol and Srinath’s mom’s milk rice (yum yum) just past Palapathwela under a big roadside tree. We proceeded to Dumbulla while munching boiled bada iringu on the way. We bought all our provisions from the Dambulla Cargill’s Foodcity. Fully equipped, we left Dambulla and headed straight to Galkadawala. We reached the lodge by 11.30 am. We were greeted by Kariyawasam, the friendly caretaker. We were stunned by the serene environment and the simple beauty of the lodge.

Galkadawala, Ritigala and an evening with elephants

The trip was planned mainly to get away from all the stresses of our usual schedules. We wanted to visit Ritigala as most of us had not been there and Galkadawala was selected as it came highly recommended by one my friends. It was also perfect for the activities we had in mind – visit Ritigala, see the Gathering at Minneriya, photography and to relax. There was no TV, no telephone and that was just perfect for us (except for those who couldn’t bear to be away from their mobiles 🙂 )

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