Knuckles Five Peaks within one day
When someone thinks about Hiking and trekking in Sri Lanka, the first thing comes to mind is Knuckles mountain range. Knuckles range or the massif is a collection of 34 main mountain peaks. It provides a huge variety of bio diversity across the 3 districts in Sri lanka. When talking about the knuckles, there are few main entry points to the range. Riverstern, Bambarella, Thangappuwa, Coberts gap, kalugala can be recognized as few of the main entry points. This mountain range Knuckles (Dumbara mountain range) has been named as knuckles because it looks like a clenched fist. Originally it has been called as dumbara mountain range because of the Misty surrounding of the range. This clenched fist or the five peaks of knuckles has become one of the famous treks between trekkers. This post will provide you the essential tips to do the five peaks treks within one day.
How to reach
There are most common two ways to do this trek. 1st and easiest one is starting from the bambarella and the other one is starting the trek from thangappuwa. 1st option (bambarella) is the easiest and most common one to do the trek. There are two ways to reach Bambarella as well. Reaching via Panwila is little bit rough when comparing to the Wattegama road due to the road condition.
Kandy Panwila Bambarella-5Peaks
Kandy-Wattegama- Panwila-Bambarella-5Peaks
Mode of Transportation
By Bikes - We recommend this is the best way to reach since you can reach upto trail head by bikes.
By Car or any other private vehicle. Road Condition is little bit bad after passing Panwila. Things getting worst right after passing the Bambarella Bridge. If you travel by a car or a vehicle with low deck, we recommend parking the vehicle at bambarella and walking up through the tea estate towards trail head. (villagers will show you the way) But you have to walk another 1h to reach the trail head.
By public Transport - There are busses to bambarella from Kandy. Or you can take a Wattegama bus from Kandy and then catch a bambarella bus from wattegama. But you can’t rely on the time table of the Bambarella bus. Then again you have to walk that extra 1km through the tea estates until you reach the trail head.
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