| Year and Month | 2015 November 21st |
| Number of Days | One day |
| Crew | 4-Indeewara, Anupama, Myself and Chamika (guide) Chamika 0768630735, 0365782866 |
| Accommodation | Not applicable |
| Transport | Car, Three wheel and Climbing |
| Activities | Climbing and Photography |
| Weather | Gloomy |
| Route | Colombo->Yatiyanthota (යටියන්තොට)->Along See Forth Road->Amanawela (අමනාවෙල)->Waulagala (වවුලගල) ->Back in same route to Colombo |
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| Author | Niroshan |
| Related Resources | Travel with Chathura |
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Waulagala is a rock which is situated at Yatiyanthota area with a flat surface. You may notice it in your visit to 5th highest waterfall in Sri Lanka-Olu Falls. Top of Waulagala is covered by short mana bushes and grass. Therefore it give rise the appearance of Hortain Plains. The map doesn’t mention a place called Waulagala and this place is marked as Doolgala (දූල්ගල). It has some other names; Waulalagala (වවුලලගල), Dombepola Galaudahena (දොඹේපල ගල උඩ හේන) and Akkara 52 (අක්කර පණස් දෙක).
I also have noticed this rock in my visit to Olu Falls (ඕලු ඇල්ල). But this place was updated recently after telecasting Derana TV programme.
I contacted Indeewara who works at Karawanalla (කරවනැල්ල) to get further information for the visit. He was able to find a guide from Amanawela area.
We (Anupama and Me) joined with Indeewara at Ruwanwella (රුවන්වැල්ල) and travelled Along Yatiyanthota-See forth road to reach Amanawela (අමනාවෙල).
Waterfalls in See forth road was pouring following last night rain and it remembered my first experience at this area. When we reach Olu Falls we have noticed Waulagala in left hand side standing like a giant.
We reached Amanawela and met our guide-Chamika. We changed our mode of transport from car to threehweel. Then we passed Amanawela Siddha Paththini Dewalaya (අමනාවෙල සිද්ඪ පත්තිනි දේවාලය) and came to the place where road gets divide. We selected left hand side road and drove parallel to water travelling line towards upstream of the river. At one place (A boutique with the house) he parked the three wheeler and we started the climb.
First section of the ascend was moderate strenuous and there was a clear foot pathway which lied along tea estates. This is used by villagers and houses were noticed intermittently. Waulagala was seen in my left hand side. After about 30minutes walk we reached estate road which connects with Bulathkohupitiya-Thunbage-Kalupahana Watta road.
Then we followed the Kalupahana estate road and turned to a foot pathway on left hand side after walking about 100-200m. Next stretch was also clear till we reach the Mana edge of Waulagala. It was about 15-minutes hike.
 Black start shows Waulagala. Black box shows the bridge at Olu Falls. Our approximate pathway is shown by black arrows. |
 Waulagala |
 Waulagala |
 Zoomed view of top of the rock |
 Getting blessings from Dewalaya |
 Directions following Dewalaya |
 Road goes parallel with this |
 Starting the journey |
 Foot pathway |
 Happy faces of the journey….Indeewara and Anupama…… |
 Directions when we come to the estate road. Red arrow shows where we came from. Black arrow shows the direction from Dedugala road. Green is the way you have to follow. |
 Next turn |
 Coffee |
 Tea |
 Waulagala is close now |
 Reaching the destination |
The surface of Waulagala is covered with short shrubs, grass and Mana bushes. It was hardly seen tall trees. We have noticed a marshy area at the center of Waulagala. Waulagala seems a good place for camping but a good water source was not seen. According to our guide, usually wind flows fast on top of Waulagala but not seen on that day.
We walked towards other end where Wee Oya valley (වී ඔය නිම්නය), Olu Ella, Wewalthalawa (වේවැල්තලාව) with it’s towers were visible. This end was called as Dombepola Mini World’s end (දොඹේපල කුඩා ලෝකාන්තය). It was amazing to see Olu Falls as a cascade from here and fairly large another fall above Olu Falls-Upper Olu Falls. Further away we were able to view range of Dolosbage.
We spent about an hour there and came down straight way through the tea estate rather than following the foot pathway we came up. At the end we refreshed with a cool dip from Wee Oya.
 On top of Waulagala…. |
 ?? Pre historical evidences…….. |
 Marshy land at center |
 On top of Waulagala |
 Unusual colors |
 Olu Falls-Circled and famous bridge is shown by arrow |
 Upper Olu cascade |
 Wewalthalawa with it’s towers |
 A dam built crossing Wee oya and diversion of water for power generation |
 Appearing of sun over gloomy weather |
 Dolosbage range |
 The only tree I noticed there |
 Unlimited snaps |
 The team except Anupama at view point of Mini World’s end. |
 Getting down |
 Cascade captured on our way back… |
Thank you