“Aunty, do you know the route to Kalupahana from here?” I asked her secretly so that others wouldn’t hear. “Go along this way,” she said, pointing to the road by the railway station. “There will be a junction with a rock, along with an arrow and ‘Horton Plains’ written on it…” she continued, giving directions […]
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The Path Finder
Once A Traveller, Always A Traveller Across the Mistry Mountains: A Journey to Remember One peaceful evening at university, Pranami Wanigasooriya sat beside me and asked about the most unforgettable adventure I had experienced recently. That conversation slowly turned into a beautiful discussion about my very first camping journey to Suriyakanda. Before we enter to […]
What Travel Teaches Us
I never thought a trip would leave me thinking for weeks. But that is exactly what happened after my friends and I packed our bags and took a bus from Colombo to Batticaloa last month. It was not a planned out adventure. It was just a group of friends going somewhere new, not really knowing […]
Camping Basics: Building Your First Shelter
There is a strange silence that only the wilderness understands. It is not the silence of emptiness, but the silence of life itself. Leaves whisper secrets to the wind, crickets perform their endless midnight symphony, and somewhere beyond the darkness, unseen branches sway like tired arms beneath the moonlight. The first night I spent outdoors, […]
Memories That Stay Longer Than Places
There are many places I no longer remember clearly. The names of the streets faded first. Then the colours of the buildings. The exact routes, the hotel rooms, and the maps folded inside the backpacks all disappeared quietly into time, like footprints on the sand washed away by the ocean. But the memories? They stayed. […]
