| Year and Month | 17-Oct-2016 (Solo attempt to Wawulagala)
04-Feb-2017 (With Office crew) |
| Number of Days | One |
| Crew | 10 |
| Accommodation | N/A |
| Transport | Hired Vehicle |
| Activities | Hiking, Nature Exploring, Photography, Sightseeing |
| Weather | Good |
| Route | Colombo -> Avissawella -> Karawanella -> Yatiyantota -> Sea Forth/ Amanawela Road -> Olu Fall -> Amanawela -> Berennawa -> Wawulagala Mountain |
| Tips, Notes and Special remark |
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| Related Resources | None |
| Author | Ranshan Fernando |
| Comments | Discuss this trip report, provide feedback or make suggestions at Lakdasun Forum on the thread
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Wawulagala is a very beautiful and unique shaped mountain located near the famous Olu waterfall. When I go to Olu falls in 2013 I remember I have noticed this massive rock but at that time I didn’t have much interest in mountaineering as I was addicted to waterfall hunting.
However, in 2015-16, this place was discovered by Travel with Chathura program and I saw two trip reports from Ashan and Niroshan of their visit to this beautiful place. On 16th Oct 2016, I had to go to Kandy for important work and then I planned to visit Wawulagala as a solo hike. I came to Sea Forth road around 3 pm and proceed up to the Amanawela shrine. Then I turned to a sub road where the name board of a school established. I went up to the Wee Oya and turned to the right path which is parallel to the giant water pipes.
I went up to the small boutique and searched locals to get directions to the mountain. But unfortunately, I couldn’t find anyone and I couldn’t find any footpath from there. But later when I came with my office team that boutique was opened and I saw how the footpath was there.
After 6 months, I purpose to my office team to have an adventure tour with me. Then I guided them to the Wawulagala and then I was able to get the directions from the locals and were able to climb Wawulagala.
There are 2 main routes to Wawulagala,
- From Amanawala Side
- From Bulathkohupitiya, Kalupahana Estate side
Above 2nd route is the most convenient route for riders as there is only a 15-20 hike from the vehicle park over there. Wawulagala is also introduced as “Dombepala Mountain” and “Akkara 52 Mountain”. Please keep in mind that the top of the Wawulagala is a very risky area for lightening, as there are many pieces of evidence for the disasters happened from lightening.
 Wawulagala marked in Metric Map |
 Marked in Google Terrian Maps |
 Waiting to be there |
 Red- Wawulagala, Yellow- Doolgala |
 Amanawala Shrine |
 How it sees to the road |
 Turn left from here |
 Reaching the destination head |
 Wee Oya |
 The Rock Face |
 Road Constructed by |
 Proceed along this road |
 Note there are so many Fishes |
 Wee Oya |
 My office team |
 This is the trailhead. The footpath will begin from there |
 This is the footpath |
 Go further |
 Its very hard to them |
 The footpath will end up with this junction. Turn left and proceed about 1-1.5km |
 Viharaya is still under construction |
 Cultivation |
 Owners |
 This is it |
 Footpath to the summit |
 Reached to the Mountain |
 Wewelthalawa side |
 Nearby Mountains |
 Rocky Plains |
 Designs |
 Amanawela side through Wee oya valley |
 Doolgala |
 Some stupid works |
 Wee Oya Valley |
 Where we came |
 More closed |
 Upper Olu Falls and Wewelthalawa side |
 The team at the top of Wawulagala |
 On the way back. Note, parked your vehicles her.e. This is the turning point to the last part of the hike. Turn left and proceed up to the end of the Tea patch and you will meet 1-2 houses. Footpath to the summit is already through those houses. |
 Going back |
 Important land mark. There will only few meters after this board to park your vehicles |
 They live in that house near to the constructing Viharaya |
Thank you for reading !