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Trip Reports Archive » Trips Filed Under Oriental Honey-Buzzard

Today's Most Viewed

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 85 views
  2. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 42 views
  3. Random visit at places in ancient Seethawaka kingdom 20 views
  4. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 19 views
  5. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 19 views
  6. බත්තුලු ඔය දිගේ සිරිපතුලට (Battulu Oya-Paradise-Sri Pada trail) 18 views
  7. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 17 views
  8. Narangala the second peak of Uva (1500m)! 17 views
  9. Theripaha to Mahaweli Raja Mawatha via Hegasulla and Padupola 16 views
  10. Herbal Paradise Dolukanda (600m) 16 views

This Week's

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 525 views
  2. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 153 views
  3. A difficult hike-Hawarimana /හවරිමාන (1120m) 89 views
  4. Memories of the Tragic Plane Crash Ever Happened In Sri Lanka 88 views
  5. Trekking from Mandaram Nuwara to Piduruthalagala 87 views
  6. දෙහෙනකන්දෙන් සිරිපා කරුණාකර උඩමාලිබොඩෙන් බැස්සෙමු (Sri Pada from Dehenakanda to Udamaliboda)... 82 views
  7. Camping on Dolukanda (600m) 82 views
  8. Camping on Hanthana mountain range (1300m) 76 views
  9. Beyond Chariot path…… 76 views
  10. Narangala the second peak of Uva (1500m)! 75 views

This Month's

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 1,843 views
  2. Camping on Hanthana mountain range (1300m) 424 views
  3. Hiking Kabaragala – The Highest Peak of Dolosbage (1506 M) 411 views
  4. A difficult hike-Hawarimana /හවරිමාන (1120m) 406 views
  5. Narangala the second peak of Uva (1500m)! 343 views
  6. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 311 views
  7. One day hike to Chariot path, Perattasi Mountain and Gerandi Ella falling point. 256 views
  8. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 252 views
  9. Knuckles Duwili Eli through Walpolamulla – The Most Wanted trip of the year 244 views
  10. Alagalla mountain hike (1140m) 232 views

All-Time

  1. Two days in Heaven (Madulsima to Pitamaruwa) 35,794 views
  2. Camping trip to Meemure – One of the best trips ever!!! 29,680 views
  3. Bathalegala (Bible’s Rock) 798m 25,105 views
  4. Waterfalls of Colombo District 22,904 views
  5. Chariot Path of Ravana & Sitha on top of Piduruthalagala range and James Taylor’s Loolecondera! 22,856 views
  6. සබරගමුවේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ කන්ද (Paraviyangala) 17,570 views
  7. ගලේ බණ්ඩාර දෙවියන්ගේ අඩවියේ පිහිටි රාවණා රජු මල දවස රජුට ජනතාව ගරු බුහුමන් දැක් වූ ස්තානය (යහන්ගල/Yahangala 1220m)... 16,963 views
  8. Scenic Hike to Wangedigala 16,716 views
  9. Great Western (6th highest mountain in Sri Lanka- 2212m) Once in a life time HIKE! 16,224 views
  10. Rarely visited places in Trincomalee 15,779 views

Grand Jumbo Bonanza – Udawalawe National Park…

One of my friends is gonna get married in September so he wanted to go on a relaxing journey before his arms and legs are tied. As I’d not been to Udawalawe before, this turned out to be the perfect opportunity. Apparently the scary things bring along good and happy returns with them. So we planned the journey during the Vesak as we all could get away without an issue. However, this time there wasn’t any of my Lakdasun buddies to accompany me. It was just the four of us, my close friends outside Lakdasun. So we all got ready to spend a night at one of national park known to harbor more than 300 jumbos. Our biggest concern, if we’d get a better bungalow.

There are four known bungalows at Udawalawe. They are Seenuggala, Thimbiriya Mankada, Gonawiddagala and Weheragolla. When I visited the Wildlife Department website to make the booking online (this is a great thing introduced by them. It saves so much trouble and painstaking process many undergo until not so long ago), none of those bungalows was available. Gonawiddagala and Thimbiriya Mankada were highly recommended but I had no luck. There was however a fifth option, Pokunuthenna, and it’s not listed in the information page for the bungalows which has photos and accommodation details. I was in two minds whether to cancel our jumbo watching and do something else coz every wildlife bungalow at all the national parks was booked.

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