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Year and Month | 2016 December 25th |
Number of Days | One day |
Crew | Eshan, Thusitha, Nirosh and Myself |
Accommodation | 24th night-Down town hostel-Kandy 25th night-KMP Wadiya at Kalupahana |
Transport | Bus and Hiking/Walking |
Activities | Hiking, Sightseeing and Photography |
Weather | Excellent |
Route | Colombo->Kandy->Waththegama (වත්තේගම)->Bambaralla (බඹරැල්ල) ->KMP Wadiya (KMP වාඩිය) ->Thunhisgala peak (තුන්හිස්ගල) -> KMP Wadiya-> Knuckles Duwili Falls-> Ranamure (රණමුරේ)->Pallegama (පල්ලේගම)->Dambulla (දඹුල්ල) ->Colombo |
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Author | Niroshan |
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It was not easy to give up this beautiful mountain which is situated at center of Kalupahana. Therefore I decided to revisit at Kalupahana after 2 weeks of first visit.
We have followed same basics of previous journey to Kalupahana (කළුපහන) and Thunhisgala side peak at this time also. Here I had new three friends but Eshan has visited at Kalupahana before. As we wanted to catch first Bambaralla bus, we stayed at Kandy previous day night. The only accommodation option I could book was Kandy Down Town hostel via booking.com. It was a nice experience as we were the only locals with 30 foreigners at that hostel on Christmas day night.
Everything happened on time and we were able to reach Malgudi junction /Lebanon estate junction by 7.30am. Weather was perfect and we met Mahathun who is a regular visitor of Kalupahana and KMP Wadiya. But we let him go and climbed with our own phase.
As mentioned in previous journey, we passed beautiful Rathnagiriya estate and then reached Hulang Kanda (හුලo කන්ද). Following that we descended to Kalupahana where KMP Wadiya is situated.
After having lunch at KMP Wadiya we unloaded unnecessary things there.
We followed the same foot pathway from KMP Wadiya like previous time but deviated from foot pathway much earlier. Getting on to the tail of the mountain was the most difficult part. It was bit difficult go through Cardamom bushes. With the help of Geo map and our common sense we could reach the tail of the mountain within 1-1.5 hours from KMP Wadiya. There is a clear foot pathway on the tail of Thunhisgala Mountain. It goes through short bushes most of the time. Therefore you can have a view towards surrounding while climbing on the tail. We had to pass two peaks to reach the actual peak/ highest peak of Thunhisgala. (This is one reason for the name Thunhisgala-Three heads). The journey along the neck was slow due to thick short bushes. This should be bit careful as it’s like walking on a knife edge sometimes.
Knuckles peaks were seen in our right hand side but well covered with mist. Therefore we were not able to see second line peaks beyond Knuckles peaks. There was a sheer drop between Knuckles peaks and Thunhisgala and this is the flow area of Heen Ganga. Kirigalpoththa (කිරිගල්පොත්ත) and Gombaniya (ගොම්බානිය) peaks were situated behind us. Along the line of Kirigalpoththa and Gombaniya we have watched Riverstone, Maningala, Karagahathenna (කරගහතැන්න) and Atanwala (ඇටන්වල) area. Lakegala (ලකේගල), Kehelpothdoruwegala (කෙහෙල්පොත්දොරුවේගල), Yahangala (යහන්ගල) and Meemure area were also seen. This time we had a different view of Lakegala. The line seperates Matale and Kandy distric falls on top of Thunhisgala as well as Lakegala-Narangamuwa peak.
It took another one hour to reach the top of Thunhisgala from the tail of it. We could clearly understand it is not possible to get on to the peak from other tail. (Where we climbed other day) The foot pathway extends to some distance from the top and we tried to find good view point of Lakegala. Thunhisgala peak is not a good view point as bushes were surrounding it. Journey on the tail is the best way to view surrounding peaks.
Return journey was not difficult as we knew the pathway. We reached KMP Wadiya just before dusk.
This time KMP Wadiya was not a strange place for us. With chilling cold we had a bath and Mahathun Ayya has prepared tea for us. We cooked our dinner and served him as well. As it was a tough day we went to sleep early with sweet memories of Thunhisgala.
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