Andiri Lena believes that this belongs to king Wlagamba, since he lived in forest for hideouts. Balangoda Buddhist monk stated that is there is a huge cave behind Pettigala Mountain. And the entrance is at Opanayake. He said he has gone to this cave 15 years back. Also told inside this is very huge as BMICH and its true. I started to search this cave, but couldn’t get any information. Finally after a 1-1/2 of searching, I found a blog (written by Sulakkhana Chamara), where he has gone to this cave in 2013. Now the planning begins; with Nishani, my office mate with the help of her cousin Pradeep. I contacted Pradeep and he gave us a great help of arranging the trip. On the 28 Feb 2015, we started the exploration.

The 1 May that has a very dramatic history behind was about to be celebrated yet again by all the laborers and working people around the world. Unfortunately in SL, it’s nothing but political drama being played on vividly decorated stages by bringing hundreds and thousands of people to Colombo from all around the corner using our public transport buses depriving the needy to go anywhere on that day.

We decided to celebrate this historical day with the beloved Mother Nature by visiting the Best Creation of her, the majestic Waterfalls. While the Sri Pada season is about to wind down and the South-West monsoon rains are beginning to hit the parched and cracked earth bringing that freshly earth smell with it. Trees were beginning to dress nicely and Hasitha out of nowhere suggested we do a waterfall hunt on A4.

It has been a while since I have visited few waterfalls, so on a Sunday I decided to have a quick tour around Rathnapura following Inter-monsoon showers. This quick trip was planned within 4 hours on the previous night of the journey. While planning was going on I gave a call to see whether Lahiru (another waterfall fan) was available and he was ever so ready for another waterfall hunt. At around 6am we met up at Avissawella and started on our quest in search of cascades which we mapped out on the previous day.