සමනල කන්ද රසික එකමුතුව is the only Facebook group in Sri Lanka dedicated to one destination as Holy Peak, Sripadaya. We have created this group in January 2019 for targeting conservation in peak wilderness and make awareness on the pilgrimage. We have launched the first Project in December 2019 as preparation for the 2019/20 Siripa Season. And we have contributed to a project launched by Derana TV and we undertook the Erathna route on that project. And now we were able to do our second project for the 2020/21 Siripa season.

අතීතයේ හෝර්ටන් තැන්න සහ සමනල රක්ෂිතය කිසිදු වෙන්විමකට ලක්නොවුණු එක යායට පිහිටි වන පියසක් වූ අතර එහි අලින් බොහොමයක් වාසය කල බව නොරහසකි. නමුත් සුදු ජාතිකයන්ගේ හුදු විනෝදය පිණිස හෝර්ටන් තැන්න සහ සමනල වන පෙතේ විසූ දහස් ගණන් අලි ඇතුන් මරණයට පත් වුනි. එසේම උඩවලව ප්‍රදේශයෙන් කොස්ලන්ද හල්දුම්මුල්ල හරහා වන පෙතට සංක්‍රමණය වූ අලින්ගේ ප්‍රමාණය සීමා වූ අතර වර්තමානය වනවිට හෝර්ටන් තැන්න අලින්ගෙන් ශුන්‍ය ඉසව්වක් බවට පත් විය. නමුත් සමන් දෙවි අඩවියට ඉතා සීමිත අලින් පිරිසක් කොටු වූ අතර උන් සියල්ල අඩවි වනපෙතේ කිසිදු ගැටළුවක් නොමැතිව මේ වනවිට ජිවත් වේ. මෙම අලි ගහණයද ලංකාවේ ජිවත් වන සාමාන්‍ය අලි විශේෂයම වන බව සඳහන් කල යුතුමය. මේ එම අලි කිහිපදෙනේක්ව විවිධ පුද්ගලයන් විසින් කැමරාවට හසු කරගත් දර්ශණ කිහිපයක්.

සමනළ වන මැද නටබුන් සොයා ගිය අපි මීළඟට ගියේ තවත් අපූරු ස්ථානයකට. ඒක කන්දක්. මහ කළු ගල් පර්වතයකින් හෙබි විශාල කන්දක් වන එය සමනළ කන්දට පෙනෙන්නේ තවත් කන්දක් සමගින් හාවී කඳු වැටියක් ලෙසයි. සමනළ කන්ද යනු ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ලෝකයට ගෙන ගිය සලකුණයි. මන්ද අතීතයේ අරාබි මුහුද හා ඉන්දියන් සාගරයේ යාත්‍රිකයන් මෙම අරුම පුදුම කන්ද දැක අප සශ්‍රීක ගොඩබිමට ගොඩවැදුණු බව නොරහසකි. අද අප සමනළ අඩවියේ හුදෙකලා වූ කන්දක් සොයා ගෙන ගියේ අතීතාවර්ජනයක්ද සමගිනි.

Wewelwatte road is one of my favorite route in my travel life, I went more than 10 times on that road specially before it gets carpeted. There are plenty of waterfalls located in that road. Here I visited these falls during my journeys and they are list down in order below. Kindly note that there are some more waterfalls at this route such as Anda Ella, Goxin Ella, Pareiyyan Ella, Madde Kanda Ella, Polwatta Amuna Ella, Halmehi Ella, Kunissan Ella, Dodam Gallena Ella, Demala Ella, Batahena Ella etc.

You can plan this waterfall journey as per the given GPS coordinates. Without telling any description you can create your own route from Bopath to Beruwatte falls by using below GPS coordinates. It will be more attractive if you can travel in this route soon after a heavy rain. And remember do not visit them during heavy rainy season as there are so many flash floods and even we cannot get in closer to them during that time as they are acting crazy.

Rathnapura-Siripagama is the second popular trail among Sri Pada devotees. This about waterfalls come across at Rathnapura-Siripagama road.

I was visited Sri Palabaddala temple for collecting some information about the mysteries and unbelievable incidents that Rev Premaloka Thero and Rev Chandraloka Thero faced.

After our Hunt on 01 May, I was yearning to do more of them as the season is ideal for it. However, there was this nagging feeling in the back of my mind about visiting Batadomba Lena as well for the past year or so. My visits to Beli Lena, Pahiyangala and Alawala Pre-Historic caves stimulated this idea more and more so decided to get two birds with one stone.

Tony managed to get permission from his Royal Highness and joined me for the 2nd leg of Tour de Waterfalls with his ever so trusted bike which is as old as him. We met around 4.30am and hit the High Level Road and were on our way merrily. However come Godagama and Tony suddenly braked hard to avoid a ghost Tuk-tuk which drove across with no lights whatsoever. The result was the headlamp of our bike came off and was hanging from the wires as a result of the brake. Just imagine how old is the bike and Tony himself. I was worried right throughout that Tony might fall apart just like the bike.

Sri Pada Season is begun. Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrims of other religions come in millions to worship the sacred foot print. People who want to climb the summit within a shorter period without much difficulty choose the Hatton Nallathani Route. Because of that Hatton route get crowded most of the time. People who wanted to climb in less crowded trail which is much closer to nature; choose comparably difficult Eratna or Ratnapura trails .

We started form Colombo at around 5.30 in the evening. The crew was three, out of the three two got in from Colombo and the other one joined us from Awissawella, It was a Hatton A/C bus, We bought biscuits and other stuff from the bus stand. We arrived at Hatton at 9.45 p.m. We had dinner from a Small hotel at Hatton and got a three wheel ride to Nallathanni. When we arrived at Nallathanni it was 11.15 p.m.