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Trip Reports Archive » Trips Filed Under Knuckles Falls

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Knuckles Five Peaks Hike – 1865m

දුම්බර වන පෙතේ සංචාරක ආකර්ෂණය දිනාගත් සුන්දරතම සංචරණ මාර්ගය වනුයේ දුම්බර කඳුවැටිය තරණය කිරීමය. නකල්ස් රක්ෂිතය යන නාමය තුළට ගැබ්ව ඇත්තේ අතැඟිලි මිට මෙළවූ හැඩයක් සහිත නකල්ස් (Knuckles) කඳුවැටිය නිසාවෙනි. බැලූ බැල්මට මෙහි ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් කඳුවැටි පහක් පවතියි. තනි කඳුවැටියක් ලෙස තිබුණ ද මෙම කන්දට පසෙකින් අලුගල් කන්දත් අනෙක් පසින් රිළාගල හෙවත් ගෝණ්ණ කන්දත් සම්බන්ධ වී ඇත. දුම්බර තතිකාවත තුළ ජන ජීවිතයට වඩාත් සමීප වූ කන්දක් ලෙස මෙය ප්‍රචලිතය. 

උසින් මීටර් 1865ක් පමණ වන මෙම කඳුවැටිය දවටගල ස්වභාවික මංපෙත ලෙස හඳුන්වයි. මෙම මංපෙත වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව මගින් ස්ථාපිත නීත්‍යනුකූල මාර්ගයකි. මෙම මංපෙත ඉසව් දෙකක් ඔස්සේ තනා ඇති අතර එය නකල්ස්හි සුන්දරතම ගම්මාන දෙකක් වන බඹරැල්ල සහ තංගප්පුව යාකරනු ලබයි. 
මහනුවර සිට කටුගස්තොට හරහා මඩවලට පැමිණ පසුව පන්විල, හුළුගඟ හරහා බඹරැල්ලට ළඟා විය හැකි අතර බඹරැල්ලේ සිට එම මාර්ගය තවදුරටත් ගෝමරය හරහා රංගලට යාවෙනු ලබයි. රංගල සිට තංගප්පුවට යා හැකි අතර ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් කි.මී. 30කට වැඩි දුරක් මහාමාර්ග ඔස්සේ පවතින නමුත් බඹරැල්ල හා තංගප්පුව වෙන් කරන ප්‍රධාන කඳුවැටිය ලෙස නකල්ස් කඳුවැටිය පවතියි. 

Alugal Kanda Expedition (1809m)

Alugal Mountain is one of my dream targets on this year. Hence I was finding several routes and paths to conquer this mountain easily. Before this expedition I have climbed some of nearby mountains to have understood about Alugal kanda.

Trekking Knuckles from Bambarella to Thangappuwa

Bambarella to Thangappuwa is a popular trail amoung the knuckles trekkers. There are several attractions can be seen in this trail.

Running along the KNUCKLES

We started our journey very early in the morning from Maharagama at about 02:00 and made our way to the Pettah bus stand. We caught the Monaragala bus from Pettah which got us to Kandy by about 06:15. We had to walk from the Kandy main bus stand to the one near the clock tower to catch a bus to Waththegama. The bus ride to Waththegama took abot 40 minutes.

Five peaks of knuckles (1862m)

It was Awurudu holidays and the weather was playing tricks on our minds but we didn’t want to let this holiday pass away without doing any hikes. There were two options it was either knuckles or sinharaja. So we decided go anywhere depending on the rain pattern. I was really motivated to do Knuckles after seen that Niroshan had covered all 5 peaks within a day and that was an inspiration for me (I’m sure you could read about that adventure in near future).

Trekking to Meemure from Bambarella across Knuckles

If we decided to go Meemure from Bambarella across Kalupahana but we had to change that. Because we hadn’t clear information about that way. So we chose Knuckles way across Alugallena way. Dear brother Niroshan helped so much to reach this target to me. We were ready to this journey without any guide, but we had great information & guidance from Niroshan.

Knuckles Hike

As Knuckles is a well known mountain range in Sri Lanka we felt guilty for not going hiking in this range. So after a few cancellation we decided to do this hike however. We got into a Colombo – Kandy bus from Mawanella around 06.45 am. We reached Kandy railway station around 7.20 am and wait for Matale train.

Bambarella to Thangappuwa by hiking Knuckles Peaks & Exploring Alugallena

After Lakdasun 2nd gathering I got to know some wonderful people and was able to go on some trips with them. So my first trip after that was with Mithila, Ashan, Sheham, NG, Kasun , Theshantha etc. Interestingly that was my favorite place on earth “ Sri Pada”. Then I recently went on with two other wonderful members of LAKDASUN, SANKETHA and ATULA. Interestingly that was my second favorite place on earth , “Knuckles the Misty Mountains “

Knuckles Hike from Bambarella, Thawalanthenna Side

Since we have been to Knuckles from Deenston, Meemure side and Riverston Illukkumbura side, this time we decided to explore knuckles from another side which is ‘Bambarella’ and hike ‘Knuckles’ mountain in knuckles range. And visit several uncommon waterfalls in the same area. It was a rainy season and we heard all those waterfalls are in full flow these days when we inquired from the people living in that area.

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