| Year and Month | 03-November-2019 |
| Number of Days | One |
| Crew | 03 |
| Accommodation | N/A |
| Transport | Motor Bicycles |
| Activities | Hiking, Nature Exploring, Photography, Sightseeing |
| Weather | Good |
| Route | Colombo -> Ratnapura -> Haputale -> Dambetenna Road -> Dambetenna Hospital -> St.Catherine’s Seat -> Nayabedda Mountain Road -> Nayabedda Mountain |
| Tips, Notes and Special remark |
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| Related Resources | None |
| Author | Ranshan Fernando |
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Nayabedda Mountain is on our list for a long time as we have seen it on our Wangedigala hike. This mountain is marked in Metric Map as “St. Catherines 2” and the 1 should be St. Catherine’s Seat which is also marked in the Metric Map without the word “Seat”. When I explore this location in Metric map I realized the name given in here and the name we currently use. Actually we are using the estate name for this mountain. But the real name is “St. Catherines 2”.
We were at Lipton Seat earlier and then we are much aware about this beautiful Dambetenna road. So, we came to Haputale early morning and got joined Madusanka and left from Haputale around 5 am in the morning. However, we were able to reach the Nayabedda estate within a few hours after having breakfast.
We can go to the highest point of the mountain by bicycle and then we should walk around the area. We have noticed plenty of mountains where we were being at previously. After we spend a few hours we left the mountain and continue our journey to the other end of Dambetenna road. I remember that I have seen the same kind of an environment when our hike to Pluckers Hut – 1365m.
 Nayabedda Mountain marked in Metric Map as “St. Catherines 2”. Blue one is the St. Catherin’s Seat (Present Name) and it might be the “St.Catherines 1”. |
 See the Google Terrian Map. Both altitudes are matching with the above Metric map. |
 Seen from Wangedigala |
 Here is the target |
 Surrounding View |
 Beautiful path, this remind me Alakola Estate route |
 Lower country |
 Small destinations |
 Up to the Southern Sea Side |
 Pagoda Seen |
 Towards heaven |
 Working Point |
 Ambewela Wind Mills, Conical Hill, Great Western, and Waterfall Point |
 Idalgashinna |
 Galudagama, Narangala |
 Thaldena Mountain |
 Fox Hill |
 Nadanda Mountain, Udawadiya |
 Madolsima Mini World’s End |
 Poonagala to Koslanda road |
 Eastern drop of Central Province |
 Maragala Mountain Range |
 Wangedigala, Balathuduwa, Gommoliya in the upper line. Devil’s Seat (Beragala Mountain), Idalgashinna in the lower front line |
 Heeloya Railway Station |
Thank you for reading !