This is about Kodu Sri Pada pilgrimage along two hardest routes: Udamaliboda and Dehenakanda.

ලංකා සිතියමේ මැද පිහිටා ඇති ලෙස දැවැන්ත වනාන්තර ප්‍රදේශයක් සලකුණු කොට ඇත. එය ඔබ අප දන්නා සමනල රක්ෂිතයයි. එලෙසම නැගෙනහිර කොටස හෝටර් නැත්ත වන පියසයි. බැලූ බැල්මට එකම වනරොදක් ලෙස පිහිටා ඇති මෙම ප්‍රදේශ දෙක තුළ පවතින්නේ එකිනෙකට වෙනස් තත්ත්වයන් වේ. සමනල රක්ෂිතය දැවැන්ත ශාක හා ජෛව විවිධත්ව​ෙයන් පිරි ප්‍රදේශයක් වන අතර හෝර්ටන්තැන්න ඊට හාත්පසින්ම වෙනස් ශාක සම්භවයක් හා කාලගුණික රටාවක් පිරි ප්‍රදේශයකි.

Sri Pada season begins with a procession to carry Sadhathuka Karanduwa, idol of God Saman and jewelries from Pelmadulla to Sri Pada Maluwa. After six months these sacred items are carried back to Pelmadulla by procession. This is my experience of last day at Sri Pada.

Year and Month 2019 April 12th Number of Days One Crew 3-Chamara, Wikum and Myself Accommodation N/A Transport By bus, Hiking and Three wheeler Activities Hiking, Trekking and Photography Weather Morning sunny-afternoon misty-Evening rainy Route Colombo->Hatton->Nallathanniya->Sri Pada->Seetha Gangula at Rathnapura route->Darmarajagala->Back to Rathnapura route->Palabaddala->Kuruwita->Colombo Tips, Notes and Special remark Start the journey early. Follow rituals […]

Sri Pada Battulu Oya waterfall trail is a different experience to worship sacred peak. We have come across 12+ waterfalls in this route.

They are six acceptable routes to reach most sacred mountain of the world-Sri Pada / Adam’s peak. This is the seventh route along Battulu Oya from Fishing hut.

Bana Samanala Gala (2010m) is a fascinating rock situated at Peak wilderness. This is our successful one day journey to Bana Samanala Gala.

It was a colorful day that we all were gathered  to have a new experience. Like wise my 1st report walimba hela this time also i was counting days since nearly one year for this memorable hike.

After a snail-like journey, we reached Maskeliya and bought a couple of essential things like instant noodles. We were planning to take a tuk-tuk from here but our luck held coz there was a Nallathanniya bus leaving at 10am. So having breathed a sigh of relief we got into the bus and settled. The sun was back and my hopes soared like an eagle. However as we got closer to Nallathanniya aka Dalhousie (remember it’s Dalhousie not Delhouse or Delhousie), those hopes came down and down like a deflated balloon.

It was very gloomy and there were a couple of passing showers as well. “This is going to be one heck of a hike” I told Atha and we both regretted not having brought the umbrellas. Well we shouldn’t have worried coz the usage of umbrella becomes next to zero after Geththampana due to the open area and strong winds. We had our long overdue coffee from the shop just before the bridge. Already there was a group of people getting ready to climb for a Pooja and we started our hike around 11am, after 8.5hr journey, well literally.

We as the Travel in Sri Lanka-Sobasiri team in facebbok has organized an event in July about off season hike to Adam’s Peak. We just published the details by inviting people to join with our journey, and then there were 72 people have confirmed their participation for the journey.

Bana Samanala and Darmarajagala are two fascinating peaks seen at Sri Pada Maluwa. This is our attempt to conquer these peaks in off season of Sri Pada.

Off season Sri Pada visit permits to view number of cascades in it’s full phase. This is my attempt to cover waterfalls at Hatton-Sri Pada trail and around Hatton.