Udamala mountain is one of
the very beautiful mountain in Sri Lanka which is situated at the border
of Badulla and Nuwaraeliya districts and more than 1850m above see
level. In the morning the mountain
looks clearly in Alawathugoda village and afternoon mist come and cover
the mountain and hide it.
You can travel to top of the mountain with one and half hour
walking from Alawathugoda. It's very difficult and interesting one. You
can travel to
Worlds End trough
the forest. There has a lot of endemic plants, animals and trees. Some
of them is Binara, Ma rath mal, Meewana, Wali kukula, Horn leopard like
this.
Before the 1818 era udamala is named Narabootagala because people
was hid on Udamala. You can find more about it with move to
History page.
Udamala mountain has various type of natural items. On the way of
Udamala is Started near
Diyawatanalla
waterfall. Pass the Diyawatanalla you met a special rock called "Pandas
Gala" means the rock is situated on the border of 5000 feet above sea
level. Pass this traveler think now I'm climb 5000 feet from sea level.
Next traveler meet big garden which grows Eucalyptus trees. Next you
should travel 5 km you come the very beautiful place called "Handa bage"
means half of moon mountain. On the Handa bage you can see all over the
Uva province. Specially Bandarawela, Diyathawa, Hakgala, Ragala,
Keppetipola, Welimada, Namunukula and more. On the Handa bage when you
shout you can hear echo more times.
Pass the Handa bage you should travel through the hi-forest and
should climb hi gap. It's some what difficult. However after travel the
hi-forest in 2 ours you can come to top of the Udamala mountain. What a
beautiful scenery you can see. I think you can't believe your eyes. In
the west you can see Pattipola town and South you can see
Nasdanda mountain and east and north
you can see long area.
From the top of Udamala mountain to Pattipola is low distance. If you
like you can travel to it. But it's very difficult thing. There are lot
of barriers you have to faced on that way. Most of person stop their
journey in top and return. But some person who has bear every difficult
task not to stop. They travel to Pattipola and come to Alawathugoda in
another way.
You want one day to climb the Udamala. Otherwise you can miss various
sceneries.
