sri lanka mountain- Udamala mountain

Udamala mountain
                                    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.