Thorawamailewe Segauna Gal guha soya

Year and Month	November, 2015
Number of Days	Three Day Trip
Crew	2 (Me and Lahiru)
Accommodation	Historical Tissa pabbatharama Raja Maha Viharaya- Thorawamailewa
Transport	Motor Bicycle
Activities	Archaeology, hiking and cave exploring
Weather	Excellent
Route	Colombo -> Chilaw -> Bangadeniya junction -> Anamaduwa -> Galgamuwa Road -> Nanneriya junction at 27th mile post-> Thorawamailewa
Tips, Notes and Special remark	Do not try without a local villager This forest is extremely different and a kingdom of wild elephants Beware of Elephants, Wild pigs Take only water.
Author	Ranshan Fernando
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Last month I heard about a missing news of Rev Thero Ellawala Medhananda and then I search information about this matter. Then I contacted a person in Thorawa and told him that I will come there as from Sunday Lankadeepa journalist. Without telling anything he was arranged every things for us. Then the chief theor of that temple Rev Sangananda and 04 of well experienced villagers has participated to our journey and they took the lead at all.

I thank,
Rev Thero Sangananda and other 3 monks in the temple
Mr Kapuruhami
Mr Kapilarathna
Mr Gemunu Kumara
Mr Ukkubanda

We started to find an unexplored cave in that forest, that forest is large about 800 acres and it’s owned by this temple. Medhanana thero came to find this cave but he couldn’t find it. But we found it and many Sellipi in that area. We went to 13 caves in the jungle. There is lot of marks about elephants. We climbed rocky plains along huge trees. We had an extremely forest experience in this dry zone as this is a kingdom of Wild elephants. We walked along the forest with making the path and we drank natural spring water. We found a new staircase in a rock. Many of caves are attacked by Thieves (Nidan Horu).

Finally we came to the temple and they treated us well. We had a bath from giant Inginiyamitiya tank and walk along the rural villages and saw their life cycle. When we climbed to the top hill of this temple, we can see Galkiriyagama mountain, Sankapali mountain, Harichikutti mountain, yapahuwa range.

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