Prabhath Dhananjaya: -Trip to Lankapatuna with my friends-

It was a Friday. As we talked the night before, at 8:00 am my friends; Ashan , Chamara and Viraj came to our home. We had breakfast at home and left for our friend Nilupul's home in Serunuwara at 8:30 am. We had to travel about 45 km two hours because we stopped halfway to take photos.

Samehow at around 10.30 am we reached Nilupul's home in Serunuwara and enjoyed the delicious tea prepared by his mother. There was also a happy conversation with friends I had met for a long time. Then we left our motorbikes there and started traveling towards the Lankapatuna temple in Nilupul's car. That trip was a very adventurous one. Nilupul took us for less than half an hour

on the 40 km long road.

We were able to reach the Lankapatuna sacred area around 12 noon. The shring, which used to be full of devotees, was isolated due to the covid pandemic and provincial travel restrictions. We worshiped at the temple for about 45 minutes and then traveled about 20 km to find the beautiful kathiraveli beach.

We ate biscuits with a glass of drink to soothe the travel fatigue and then started swimming enjoying the beauty of the sea. It was about 4.00 pm when the water plays ends. When we returned to Nilupul's home for lunch, it was about 4.45 pm.

We decided to say good bye to serunuwara as soon as possible as we had to pass through an area frequented by wild elephants. However, it was still around 5.30 pm when we left serunuwara. We can reached kantale again in about 45 minutes without stopping. On the way we saw the wild elephants as we had hoped, but luckily, we were able to reach our destination without any danger.