First Ever Camping trip to Adara Kanda Range

Year and Month	February, 2015
Number of Days	Two Day Trip
Crew	3 (Laalitha, Prabath and myself)
Accommodation	Camping
Transport	Public Transport
Activities	Camping / Scenery / trekking / Hiking / Photography
Weather	A mixture of Sunny and misty conditions (It was rain about 1 hr)
Route	From Bandarawela Side – Bandarawela -> Haputhale -> Beragala -> Haldummulla -> Kalupahana =>Uvathanna -> marangahawela -> Halpe -> Pambahinna From Colombo –> Colombo -> Homagama -> Awissawella -> Rathnapura -> Balangoda -> Pambahinna
Tips, Notes and Special remark	It’s better if you can carry a stock of water (2L per person) and food products. If you are going for camping you will need more. Wear attire as to cover your hands and legs to avoid sun burns Start as early as possible Do not carry Plastic items (Minimize), Make sure you bring back everything you took. No need of a guide. Follow the footpath. Ask directions from locals. Beware of windy weather It would take about 4-5 hours to get to all of the peaks
Related Resources	Trip Report: සබරගමුවේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ කන්ද (Paraviyangala) Google Earth Trail Map: Adara kanda (Paraviyangala) Kmz
Author	amalmadawa
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This is my first trip report. First of all need to thanks Lakdasun and the members for making desire to Camping and hiking and also give us opportunity to share information about the beautiful places around Sri lanka. I grew up in Haldummulla. I lived 20 years there. It is shame to say :-) I never heard about Adarakanda, Havagala, wangedigala beside lakdasun. Thanx again to lakdasun.org and members. When I reading the Camping, Hiking reports I wanted go for camping, so I thought ADARAKANDA range will be good for me as a beginner. I planned to go on December 2014 but it didn’t work out because of bad weather. Then I planned to go on February 2015. My brother and Prabath joined with me.

On fist day by brother and me leave home about 9.30 am. It was rain little bit. We came to Belihul oya junction about 10.15 am and the rain didn’t have stopped. Then we had to wait for probath’s arrival. After that we came to the culvert 161/4 as described in Ashan’s report. The rain was stopped. It was about 10.50 am when we started our hike from there. We took road on left side which goes uphill and ends at monastery. It took about 30 min to reach the monastery. Then we had to cross the stream near the toilet of the monastery and then we entered a foot path which took us through a pines plot. It was about 10.40 am. We had to climb up through the pines plot. It was deficit journey. Then we reached small flat area. It was about 12 noon. We had a break there. We started our hike again. Then we came across a flat area while walking through the pine wood. It’s good place for camping. There was evidence of previous campers. From there onward journey was little bit easy. Finally we came out of the pine plot and it was about 12.30 pm.

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Map 2 – Click to enlarge

Foot Path towards to Monastery

Foot Path towards to Monastery 2

Had to wait until rain stopped at Monastery

Shelter

Crossing the Stream

Foot path which took us through a pines plot

Climbing through the pines

Nice

.	Having mini break

More to go

Path took us to flat area

Entering the flat area

crossing the flat area

More to go

Finally we came out of the pine plot

From there onwards trail continues to ascending. So we continued our hike until reach the next flat area. We came to another flat area and it was about 1.25 pm. There was plenty of flat space to camp and there was evidence of camping. Yes it is great place to see all area. The Scenery is getting better and better in every moment. So we had mini break there. We started hike again. After passing through the plat area trail continues to ascending again.

Getting ready to ascent

Towards to Pambahinna Area

Towards to Kalupahana

Scattered pines

Still Climbing

The gap

My brother and Probath

Prabath and me

The flat area that we camp

Towards to balangoda and Habagala Range

Limitless view

Having little chit-chat

We continued our hike until 2.00 pm. We had lunch. After lunch we stayed about 20 minutes there. We started hike again. We continued our hike until reach the 1^st peak. While we were hiking the weather didn’t seem good. We reached the 1^st peak (Paraviyangala). It was about 3.20 pm. Wow! The Scenery was elegant. We reached 2^nd and 3^rd peaks and didn’t spent more time there because rain was on the way.

Started our journey after the break

Crossing the camping site

Path to haven

Nice…

Still Climbing

Mist kissing the peaks

Its going to rain

No words.. ;-)

Having Lunch

Destination getting closer

Clouds

Still Climbing

.	Dark Clouds

nice Landscape

Path that we came

Samanala reservoir

On Paraviyangala

Worlds end

The range

.	Having break

.	To next peak

Brothers

The mist covered us in few seconds

We started to climb down. It was 4.20 pm. While descending the rain came down. We all got wet. We made a mistake by bring all of our stuffs to summit. Actually I planned to camp on summit. But plan change because of windy weather. It was difficult to get down while raining. We came to the camp site that we pass while climbing. It was 5 pm and there was another group who came for camping. So we had to go another place for put our tent. Rain stopped. But there was dark around us. We pitched over tent and tried to make camp fire and didn’t work out because of wet firewood. We had “Rottee” for dinner. My mum made for us. After the dinner we went to sleep.