Thorny Pudukulama 420m

The route we took

Few days back to be specific on 21st of April 2019 disaster struck and the whole country was in distress, so to get away from all the hate, anger and grievance we decided to hike a small mountain. Since Anupama lived around Kumbukgete we decided to climb Kumbuk wewa Pudukulama mountain. We started our hike from the main road and reached a small mountain range, from here we crossed over to the main Pudukulama range.

Though the route we selected was a distant one it was less tiresome. After reaching the ridge of Pudukulama mountain we had to face a thorny ridge section until we reached the rocky summit of Pudukulama. the walk along the ridge was not an easy task as we expected and at some places we had to crawl on all four limbs through thorny bushes. Please do refer the images for landmarks.

the range

as seen from Dolukanda

start of a long hike

on the way scenery

Dolukanda

Bathalegoda seen

thorny ridge

Aragama

Ambokka seen

Bisogala and beyond

Kotagala

final few steps

summit ed

yakdessagala seen

Ambokka

Dolukanda

the range

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kibulwana and karanampotha range

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kimbulwana

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.	Madagalla rd

To get back we decided to climb down a valley so we could reach the near by village with paddyfields. After reaching the village we started walking towards Manapaya temple to ultimately end up at the main road and then suddenly problems started to arise. Few villages encircled us and did some deep questioning prior to been released from the village. After reaching the road we walked few kilometers to reach our vehicle and depart from Kumbuk wewa as soon possible.