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Trip Reports Archive » Trips Filed Under Moon plains

Today's Most Viewed

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 52 views
  2. Sri Pada via Sandagalathenna( The Holly Moon Rock Plain ) 45 views
  3. Camping on Hanthana mountain range (1300m) 30 views
  4. The Pilgrimage to Sri Pada via Kuruwita-Erathna route 25 views
  5. Camping at Kelebokka 360 view point…. 24 views
  6. Exploring cascades of Kaluthara District-Part-2 17 views
  7. Trip to Embilipitiya 15 views
  8. දෙහෙනකන්දෙන් සිරිපා කරුණාකර උඩමාලිබොඩෙන් බැස්සෙමු (Sri Pada from Dehenakanda to Udamaliboda)... 15 views
  9. Uda Diyaluma Fall Hike 14 views
  10. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 14 views

This Week's

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 333 views
  2. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 138 views
  3. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 85 views
  4. Narangala the second peak of Uva (1500m)! 80 views
  5. A difficult hike-Hawarimana /හවරිමාන (1120m) 78 views
  6. Beyond Chariot path…… 78 views
  7. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 77 views
  8. The Pilgrimage to Sri Pada via Kuruwita-Erathna route 73 views
  9. Camping on Hanthana mountain range (1300m) 71 views
  10. Sri Pada via Sandagalathenna( The Holly Moon Rock Plain ) 71 views

This Month's

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 1,788 views
  2. Camping on Hanthana mountain range (1300m) 437 views
  3. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 411 views
  4. A difficult hike-Hawarimana /හවරිමාන (1120m) 403 views
  5. Narangala the second peak of Uva (1500m)! 332 views
  6. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 302 views
  7. One day hike to Chariot path, Perattasi Mountain and Gerandi Ella falling point. 241 views
  8. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 239 views
  9. Knuckles Duwili Eli through Walpolamulla – The Most Wanted trip of the year 239 views
  10. Alagalla mountain hike (1140m) 227 views

All-Time

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 35,935 views
  2. Camping trip to Meemure – One of the best trips ever!!! 29,684 views
  3. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 25,125 views
  4. Waterfalls of Colombo District 22,942 views
  5. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 22,898 views
  6. සබරගමුවේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ කන්ද (Paraviyangala) 17,604 views
  7. ගලේ බණ්ඩාර දෙවියන්ගේ අඩවියේ පිහිටි රාවණා රජු මල දවස රජුට ජනතාව ගරු බුහුමන් දැක් වූ ස්තානය (යහන්ගල/Yahangala 1220m)... 16,978 views
  8. Scenic Hike to Wangedigala 16,765 views
  9. Great Western (6th highest mountain in Sri Lanka- 2212m) Once in a life time HIKE! 16,247 views
  10. Rarely visited places in Trincomalee 15,789 views

Fiery Gusts, Shrouding Mist & Freezing Cold – Nuwara Eliya & HP…

Just a brief word on HP, especially its buildings inside as most of you might not be aware of her past. Apart from the Farr Inn and the Anderson Lodge which were built by the English Planters during colonial era, all the other structures are results of the mega potato farm that saw HP lose most of her forest making it this grassy plain. Whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, well I’ll leave your capable thinking to decide. So these buildings had been used as storage for potatoes and fertilizers, staff quarters and other purposes. If you visit the Moon Plains where they still have a government-owned seed potato farm, you can get an idea what it must’ve been at HP before being named as a wildlife park.

So we planned alternative options to visit on the way and I was long overdue for a visit to Moon Plains and so was Hasi. We then planned to be there by 6.30am in order to get the best out of the morning rays. Hasi then came up with the idea of visiting Single Tree Hill aka One Tree Hill, the 10th highest mountain in SL with a height of 2100m. So that sealed the first day and we decided to reach HP afterwards. On the 25th Jun, we left home around 3am and having made excellent ground arrived at Nuwara Eliya by 6.10am.

Cascade fiesta at Kandapola forest reserve on Valentine’s day

All this year I have been following streams and hunting cascades and there was one major pending to do adventure! As always I needed a motivation and Nalinda and the gang provided me with it. They did this trail 3 weeks back so I was tempted to follow their footsteps. For years I have noted many cascades above Bomburu falls and wondered how was I going to plan this trip but after getting few tips from my friends I decided to go ahead.

Land marks of Misty Nuwara Eliya-Part-1

Nuwaraeliya is one of main tourist attraction of Sri Lanka. It has number of places with archaeological value belongs to colonial era.

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