Bathalegala is a famous destination among amateur hikers and this is my second visit to Bathalegala. It is the ideal time to mention about other historical attractions around Bathalegala.

In April month everybody busy due to Sinhala New Year. We planned to visit our relatives house in Mawanella. We planned to go by train.

Previous day night we went to Sri Dalada Maligawa & we couldn’t worship it. Then next day morning we went Dalada Maligawa. After religious work we went to see elephants in the Maligawa premises that brought for “Dalada Perahera”.Most of them prepared & loaded to lorries to return to their homes.

Year and Month 11-12 Feb, 2016 Number of Days 2 Crew Hari & Me Accommodation Camping Transport By train, on foot and bus. Activities Hiking, Camping, Photography, Sightseeing etc… Weather Excellent but extremely hot Route Colombo Fort->Pilimathalawa->Poththapitiya->Alagalla->Alagalla Rock Temple->Gangoda->Rambukkana->Colombo Fort. Tips, Notes and Special remark Plan your journey properly such as the dates, times, crew […]

“Who’s been to the Dalada Maligawa or Tooth Temple?”

I know it’s one of the silliest of questions I could’ve asked you but I had to ask it to enter my fairy tale. I’m sure most of the Sri Lankans regardless of their religion have visited this magical place on earth where the Left Canine Tooth Relic of Lord Buddha that was retrieved from the sandalwood funeral pyre of Kushinagar is kept. This is also visited by many foreigners and as the statistics reveal it is the second place visited mostly after the Elephant Orphanage at Pinnawala. At an estimate about 80-90% of all the tourists pay a visit to Dalada Maligawa.

“Ok now how many of you have been fortunate enough to see the Tooth Relic Dagoba?”

After completing the check list took some valuable time of us. As we were too late, we took 2 three wheelers to go Pilimathalawa. We reached there at around 2:15pm. We bought some required item from the town and waited for the Poththapitiya bus. It took a long time to get a bus and we decided to got to the destination by three wheelers. (500/- per three wheeler). We reached the Poththapitiya town by 3.30pm

“Among the carvings, there are 125 series of decorations, 256 liyawel, 64 lotus designs in Pekada, 30 decorative patterns on timber, roof members, making a total of 514 such exquisite carvings.”

“The ‘Madol Kurupuwa’ is one of the finest examples of medieval carpentry excellence. It is a wooden pin (this Madol Kurupuwa) which holds together 26 rafters at the hipped end of the roof of the Digge of Embekke Devale.”