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Trip Reports Archive » Trips Filed Under Hasalaka

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Today's Most Viewed

  1. Brandy Rock (1130m), Matale 63 views
  2. බත්තුලු ඔය දිගේ සිරිපතුලට (Battulu Oya-Paradise-Sri Pada trail) 56 views
  3. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 42 views
  4. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 25 views
  5. Battulu oya trail to Adam’s peak 24 views
  6. Pettigala (Pethiyagala) 1500m, giant of Balangoda was conquered! 23 views
  7. Learning the Tea History at Loolkandura and Hiking Kondagala (1450 M) 20 views
  8. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 20 views
  9. Great Western (6th highest mountain in Sri Lanka- 2212m) Once in a life time HIKE! 20 views
  10. Gombaniya the Extreme hike (1906m) 20 views

This Week's

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 226 views
  2. Brandy Rock (1130m), Matale 224 views
  3. දෙහෙනකන්දෙන් සිරිපා කරුණාකර උඩමාලිබොඩෙන් බැස්සෙමු (Sri Pada from Dehenakanda to Udamaliboda)... 139 views
  4. බත්තුලු ඔය දිගේ සිරිපතුලට (Battulu Oya-Paradise-Sri Pada trail) 124 views
  5. Waterfalls of Colombo District 120 views
  6. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 111 views
  7. Scenic Hike to Wangedigala 110 views
  8. Scenic Peacock Hills (1518m) + Kadiyanlena & Galboda Waterfalls 109 views
  9. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 95 views
  10. Sensational Mandaram Nuwara – Tour de Waterfalls 15… 90 views

This Month's

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 983 views
  2. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 483 views
  3. දෙහෙනකන්දෙන් සිරිපා කරුණාකර උඩමාලිබොඩෙන් බැස්සෙමු (Sri Pada from Dehenakanda to Udamaliboda)... 474 views
  4. සබරගමුවේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ කන්ද (Paraviyangala) 456 views
  5. Scenic Peacock Hills (1518m) + Kadiyanlena & Galboda Waterfalls 421 views
  6. Knuckles Duwili Eli through Walpolamulla – The Most Wanted trip of the year 415 views
  7. Waterfalls of Colombo District 383 views
  8. Scenic Hike to Wangedigala 354 views
  9. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 353 views
  10. ගලේ බණ්ඩාර දෙවියන්ගේ අඩවියේ පිහිටි රාවණා රජු මල දවස රජුට ජනතාව ගරු බුහුමන් දැක් වූ ස්තානය (යහන්ගල/Yahangala 1220m)... 316 views

All-Time

  1. Camping trip to Meemure – One of the best trips ever!!! 29,235 views
  2. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 24,425 views
  3. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 22,445 views
  4. Waterfalls of Colombo District 20,358 views
  5. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 18,858 views
  6. සබරගමුවේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ කන්ද (Paraviyangala) 15,508 views
  7. Rarely visited places in Trincomalee 15,285 views
  8. ගලේ බණ්ඩාර දෙවියන්ගේ අඩවියේ පිහිටි රාවණා රජු මල දවස රජුට ජනතාව ගරු බුහුමන් දැක් වූ ස්තානය (යහන්ගල/Yahangala 1220m)... 15,079 views
  9. Trip to Mahiyanganaya and Badulla visiting 5 reservoirs, 5 temples and 5 waterfalls 14,514 views
  10. Great Western (6th highest mountain in Sri Lanka- 2212m) Once in a life time HIKE! 14,497 views

Trekking Rathna ella along Haslaka Oya

Rathna Ella is a beautiful waterfall located at Haslaka. The Waterfall can be reached easily from Hasalaka. Hasalaka to Rathna Ella Wasama and from there 2-3 Km walk to reach the falls. This is the popular route to the falls. But, we tried a different route which we started from Popitiya (18 Bends Viewing Area).

Walking along Mahaweli River……Part-2

This was my second attempt to walk along Mahaweli River and we started from Mahiyangana.

Searching our heritage in Dumbara valley

Year and Month 2014 September 05th and 06th Number of Days 02 Crew 02 Uddika and Myself Accommodation Theldeniya Guest House 081-234916 Transport By train By motor bike Activities Archeology, Photography and Just traveling Weather Excellent Route Colombo -> Kandy -> Hasalaka (හසලක) -> Minipe(මිනිපේ) -> Rantambe (රන්ටැබේ) -> Randenigala (රන්දෙනිගල) -> Kandy -> Colombo […]

Four days walking from Rambukoluwa to Sulugune via beautiful Meemure village

Rambukoluwa is a traditional village at Knuckles forest reserve. This might be a vanishing village in near future as they have planned to build a reservoir by crossing Kalu Ganga. Though Rambukoluwa is not covered by this reservoir, villagers are asked to leave the village.

Ududumbara to Rathna Ella along Hasalaka oya

This year the monsoon seems to be getting late letting me venture around more and more taking the upper hand of it. There was an old post on a trail from Udu dumbara to Rathna falls which was hanging around my long list for many years. So I thought of giving it a shot. With few calls Sri, Danushka and Lahiru were in to it. It was supposed to be an easy hike which was 2.5Km’s.
On the previous day I reached Mahiyanganaya and loitered around in the evening enjoying some unseen water bodies called Dambarawa lake and Mapakada lake.

A Drive Through Knuckles, Meemure & Rathna Ella

So on the 16th 2 of us left Delgoda at 4am picking up the 3rd member on our way from Dambadeniya. By about 6.30am we were at kurunegala and proceeded towards ibbagamuwa as we intended to take the dodangaslanda – yatawatta road to matale.
The 38km distance from ibbagamuwa to matale was a gradual ascend. The scenery as we gained elevation was breathtaking.

Excursion to the Lifeline of Hasalaka – Rathna Ella

So here I’m again with the continuation of my fairy tale from breath-taking Meemure and hope you’ve read it and enjoyed it as much as I did (Jaunting off to the Most Beautiful Village on Earth – Meemure). I left you guys at Hunnasgiriya after our morning snack of sponge cake, banana and what keeps me going Coffee… We had to wait at Hunnasgiriya for a Mahiyanganaya bus longer than I liked due to 25 April being a Poya day.

ගලේ බණ්ඩාර දෙවියන්ගේ අඩවියේ පිහිටි රාවණා රජු මල දවස රජුට ජනතාව ගරු බුහුමන් දැක් වූ ස්තානය (යහන්ගල/Yahangala 1220m)

This rock is not a place to mock around and it’s not an easy hike at all, it’s also believed to be a holy place protected by the local god (ගලේ බණ්ඩාර දෙවියන්ගේ ගබඩාව). There have been many incidents where the god have punished travellers & locals who was wondering about with a bad intent (stung by wasp, elephant attacks, lost in the jungle, etc)

Memories of Jungle Village

Last week end I had opportunity to spend two days in tiny jungle hamlet in foot of the Knuckles Mountain Range. Here is that memorable story. We leave Kandy at 11.00 a.m. in the morning and reached our destination after four hour journey and our crew was 08.

Family Trip to Gal Oya – Camping at the Shoreline of Senanayake Samudraya

We planned the trip initially to the August school vacation but due to the National Elephant Senses which was on the way we had to reschedule the trip to September. All were enthusiastic on the trip and final number on for the trip was 10 with 3 teenagers, 2 youths and 5 adults. The campsite was booked in advanced and officers were helpful to provide us a campsite despite their strike. Cab service van was booked which was familiar due to the past experiences with the driver/owner of that van.

Adventure in Mahiyanganaya

We were gathered into Colombo private bus stand on Friday night @ about 10.15pm to catch 11.45Pm Mahiyangana bus. Since it was a long weekend huge crowd was there. But we were lucky enough to get seats in 10.45 Bibila bus which was came unexpectedly late. Therefore it is better if you can reserve seats in advanced if you plan to go by Bus. We get off at the Gurulupotha rest house at about 5 am. There is a water stream, which is a branch of a Hasalaka oya is flow across Mahiyanganaya road. We had ‘Roti’ for the breakfast from a small hotel at Gurulupotha

“Galamuduna village (ගලමුදුන)” through Udagaladebokka and return to Heenganga bridge – Knuckles Range

The bus terminated at Pamunupura junction. Then we have to turn left and continue the journey by foot. The sight of Yahangala too away our tiredness all the time. It brought ice cool to our eyes. We stopped briefly at a point where a small water stream crosses the road and fall over cliff on the other side of the road. After 15 mins we restarted the journey. It was a heavy climb thereafter and after 200m we reached the Grama niladari office of the village. It was closed and we got some more rest there. The concreted road ended there and a foot path began.

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