2 Days Trip to Donate Gifts to Narangamuwa School & visit Nearby Important Places

Year and Month	2016 December
Number of Days	2 Days ( December 01 – 03 )
Crew	11 (between 23 – 45 years of age)
Accommodation	At Narangamuwa School
Transport	By 2 vans
Activities	Charity , Sight Seeing , Photography
Weather	Hot & sunny in day time / very cold in early morning
Route	Colombo -> Matale -> Raththota -> Illukkumbura -> Pallegama -> Narangamuwa -> Back on same route
Tips, Notes and Special remark	Need guide or villager to Lakegala / Meemure tour
Author	S.BADULLAGE
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Every year we handover school items to rural school. Last time we went to rural school in Badulla. This time we choose Narangamuwa Primary School in Laggala Pallegama to our project. We left Maharagama on December 1st at 11.00 p.m. Our team comprises 11 persons with 2 vans. Around 5.15 a.m we reached to Riverston. At that time very cold & misty. Then we waited till 5.45 a.m & start journey to Riverston peak. It was new experience for us such journey in very cold & misty early morning. Around 7.00 a.m we were at Riverston peak & around 8.30 a.m we came back to main road. After that we went to Thelgamu Oya & having wash there. After that we went to Narangamuwa School & it took nearly 1 hour to Illukkumbura to school. When we went there the principle, teachers, school children & villagers waiting for us. They welcomed us warmly. They arranged ceremony to handover gifts. We handover school items, sweets to children & they were full happy. We handover School Name Board, computer , sports items & other school items to school. We gave gifts to Principle & teachers too. Pls see photos & it will tell whole story. They arranged simple & superb lunch for us.

After having lunch we took little rest & went to see Narangamuwa Lake. It was very beautiful place & water comes to lake by 3 “Diya Peeli”. It was very unique feature of this lake. We bath couple of hours there & after that we went to see village.We overnight stay at school hall & very cold at early morning.

Next day early morning we plan to go see few interesting places. We started our journey around 6.30 a.m. We arranged villager to provide our meals & guide us.His name was “Muthu Banda”. First we went to his house & had our breakfast. They were poor people but they treat us their maximum. Around 8.30 a.m we started our journey & first we went to see newly built “Kuti”. At that time monk leaves the place. “Kutiya” build in very beautiful place & ideal for meditation. Our 4 members stopped there & rest of the team started journey. After that we went to see Uyangomuwa Lake & “Rawana’s Garden”. Very little water there & few “Embul Dodam” trees in the area. After that we went to “Kapuwatugala Lena”. Only 3 of us able to reach to lena. Without rope it was bit difficult to reach. After few hours walking we reached to “Reassa”. From there we can get beautiful views & photos will talk rest. We waited nearly 1 hour there & decided to come back without going to “Meeriyagolla Peak” or “Lakegala” due to time we have. On the return journey we bath at beautiful rock pool. Water was very cool even at 1.00 p.m. After having bath we came to “Muthubanda” Mama’s house. Our other team members also came there. We had good lunch same as previous meals. After few hours we reached back to school. After thanks the Principle & “Muthubanda” Mama ,we packed our bags & left from village around 4.00 p.m. On the way we stopped at near Pallegama Bridge & we spent nearly hour in water. After that we started our journey back to home & we stopped at view point of “Pitawala Pathana”. After having beautiful evening views there we started our return journey. We came back to our homes around 12.00 a.m.

We completed another big project & big tour with lots of sweet memories.