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Trip Reports Archive » Trips Filed Under Kudumbigala

Today's Most Viewed

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 23 views
  2. Days at Chilaw 13 views
  3. Heritage of ancient Magama, the capital of Ruhuna kingdom 11 views
  4. Sensational Mandaram Nuwara – Tour de Waterfalls 15… 10 views
  5. First Ever Camping at “Haritha Kanda”, Bogawanthalawa 10 views
  6. Scenic Peacock Hills (1518m) + Kadiyanlena & Galboda Waterfalls 9 views
  7. Four days walking from Rambukoluwa to Sulugune via beautiful Meemure village 8 views
  8. Lakegala – The Ultimate Rock Climbing Adventure in the Heartland of Ravana’s Kingdom 8 views
  9. Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol… – Meemure & Narangamuwa 8 views
  10. Cascades in Nawalapitiya and Ginigathhena 7 views

This Week's

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 118 views
  2. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 52 views
  3. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 41 views
  4. Dreams Do Come True, Maragala-kanda (1111m) The Paradise Of Monaragala 38 views
  5. Story of Victoria 37 views
  6. Alagalla mountain hike (1140m) 36 views
  7. First Ever Camping at “Haritha Kanda”, Bogawanthalawa 32 views
  8. Scenic Peacock Hills (1518m) + Kadiyanlena & Galboda Waterfalls 31 views
  9. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 31 views
  10. Hike to Hunnasgiriya Mountain (1514 m) and near by Attractions 30 views

This Month's

  1. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 362 views
  2. Hike to Gongala (1357m)-Highest peak of Sabaragamuwa Mountains 270 views
  3. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 238 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) 147 views
  7. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 138 views
  8. Back to Yahangala (1220m) 133 views
  9. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 127 views
  10. Monkey Mountain (520m)…….A part of Viyana Hela 125 views

All-Time

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 45,114 views
  2. Aliyawetunaela Hike – 1665m (අලියාවැටුණඇල) 31,911 views
  3. Camping trip to Meemure – One of the best trips ever!!! 30,028 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 24,519 views
  7. සබරගමුවේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ කන්ද (Paraviyangala) 18,910 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)... 18,114 views
  10. Great Western (6th highest mountain in Sri Lanka- 2212m) Once in a life time HIKE! 17,337 views

Visit to Okanda and Kudumbigala Monastery

Okanda is a small hamlet on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka at the official entrance to the Kumana National Park. Just before the ticketing office of Kumana a small lane toward the sea will take you the Okanda Devalaya on a rocky outcrop on the beach.

Kudumbigala monastic complex was built in 246 BC, during the time of King Devanampiyatissa. It was first established as a refuge for the Buddhist monks who wanted to get away from the busy Cities. Archaeologists had recovered over 200 rock caves belonging to this forgotten monastery.

2 Days Trip to Kudumbigala Aranya & Nearby Important Places

One of our relative every year offer “Dhanaya” for  “Kudumbigala Aranya”. For this trip he is taking large number of people.

12 Days Trip to Wellassa & Digamadulla – Day 4

We spent 3 days at Buttala & leave from there around 7.30 a.m. First we went to see “Galabedda Pokuna” & came to Lahugala.

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.

A Three Day Trip to Kumana Natioanl Park, to experience the ultimate wilderness

This was our second visit to Kumana National Park. From the first visit back in 2012, I fell in love with the magnificent and unspoiled wilderness of Kumana. It truly deviates from overcrowded Yala NP and has an amazing calm and relaxing environment. We had to plan well in advance based on the experiences from our first visit (Will also upload that trip on a later day). All the bookings for camp sites and jeeps were made at least a month earlier.

In and around Panama, Kumana & Kudimbigala

පිළියන්දලින් රාත්රී 11 ට පමන පිටත්වූ අප උදෑසන 9 පමණ වන විට පොතුවිල් මුහුදු මහා විහාරයට ලඟා වුනෙමු. කුමන පිවිසුමට ලඟාවන විට දහවල් 12 පමණ විය. එතැනින් දිවා ආහාරය ගත් අප අපේ පළමු දින නවාතැන වූ කුඹුක්කන් ඔය හෙරලිගස් ආර බලා පිටත් වුනෙමු. කුමන පිවිසුමෙන් ඇතුල්වූ අප බාගුර පිටිය, කුමන විල්ලුව, මඩමතොට පසු කරමින් 23 පමණ දුර ගෙවා හෙරලිගස් ආරට ලඟා වුනෙමු.

An Endless walk with Pilgrims

This year was the best period for me to do the well-known “Paada Yathra” because I currently reside in Moneragala. Actually even before I thought of walking with the pilgrims this year my friends did ask me to join them and the answer was YES SURE (with a big smile). This was something I wanted to do for some time but free time was the major problem. Thanks to the long discussions in lakdasun and talking hours with people who had experienced this walk first hand, we were ready to walk the distance with the pilgrims and experience something that is worth a million.

TRIP TO POTHUVIL (POTTUVIL) AND DOWNWARDS

We started after dinner, from Maharagama around 10.00 pm and reached Udawalawa Dam by 2.00 am. The barrier was closed. However after checking our credentials, they allowed us to pass through with a warning about the bad road condition. Closing the Dam at 10.00 pm seems to be a formality now.The road condition from Udawalawa to Thanamalwila was really bad. It was under construction and it took nearly 2 hours to pass that stretch. Our 5th member was to join us at Okkampitiya. We reached Buttala by early morning and reached his home for breakfast.

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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