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The Thudugala Ella තුඩුගල ඇල්ල


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The Thudugala Ella

The Thudugala Ella තුඩුගල ඇල්ල



The Thudugala Ella (Sinhala: තුඩුගල ඇල්ල) waterfall is located in Thudugala village in Dodangoda Divisional Secretariat in Kalutara District of Western Province, Sri Lanka. Out of around 382 recorded waterfalls in Sri Lanka, the rank of this is 268th.

The fall, which has become a famous bathing place, is situated in an estate once owned by a British and his wrecked country house can still be seen there. There is also a natural stream pool surrounded

by “Ketala” plants and fern. In the nearby forest reserve, there are many beautiful migratory birds and local birds, e.g. “pale bellied flower pecker”, the smallest bird in the country.

Though shorter than other waterfalls in Sri Lanka such as the 263 metres (862.9 ft) high Bambarakanda Falls, the 8 metres (26.2 ft) high Thudugala Ella has been listed as one of the most popular waterfalls in the country by Lanka Council on Water Falls (CLWF).

Another fascination here is that a tunnel runs under the waterfall and comes out on top at one side of it.


The route to the waterfall starts from Katukurunda Junction off the Galle Road; 5 miles (8.0 km) from there on Matugama Road to Thudugala junction and from there 8 miles (12.9 km) to the waterfall

When travelling from Thudugala junction, you will come to another junction called "Ellagāwa (Near the waterfall) Junction" with a signboard of a rubber plantation so you can easily recognize it. From there, if you want to go to the waterfall and its natural bathing places, you will have to take the left road which runs over a small bridge nearby. The right road will lead you only to an artificial bathing place, which does not have a view of the natural beauty of the Thudugala Ella waterfall.



ශ්රී ලංකාවේ බස්නාහිර පළාතේ කළුතර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ දොඩන්ගොඩ ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාසයේ තූදුගල ගමෙහි තුඩුගල ඇල්ල (සිංහල: තුඩුගල ඇල්ල) දියඇල්ල පිහිටා ඇත. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වාර්තා වී ඇති දිය ඇලි 382 ක් පමණ වන අතර එය 268 වන ස්ථානයයි. ප්රසිද්ධ කිමිදුම් ස්ථානයක් බවට පත්ව ඇති මෙම වැටීම බි්රතාන්යය සතු වූ වතුපිටිවල පිහිටා ඇති අතර ඔහුගේ හදිසි භූමි නිවස තවමත් දැක ගත හැකිය. "කැටාලා" ශාක සහ පර්ණාංග වලින් වටවී ඇති ස්වභාවික ධාරා සංචිතයක්ද පවතී. අසල පිහිටි වන රක්ෂිතයේ, සුන්දර සංක්රමණික පක්ෂීන් සහ ප්රාදේශීය පක්ෂීන්, උදා. රටක කුඩාම කුරුල්ලෙක් වන "සුදුමැලි මයිලෙක්ස්". ශ්රී ලංකාවේ අනෙකුත් දිය ඇලි අතරින් අඩි 263 ක් උසැති බඹරකන්ද දිය ඇල්ල, මීටර් 8 (අඩි 26.2) ඉහළ තුඩුගල ඇල්ල ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වඩාත්ම ජනප්රිය දියඇල්ලක් ලෙස ලැයිස්තුගත කර ඇත. ජල දිය ඇල්ල මෙහි තවත් උද්වේගයක් වන්නේ ජල උමං යටි උමඟක් සහ එක් පැත්තක ඉහළින්ය. ගාලු පාරෙන් කටුකුරුන්ද හන්දියෙන් ආරම්භ වන දිය ඇල්ලට මාර්ගය ආරම්භ වේ. මතුගම පාරේ තුඩුගල හන්දියෙන් සැතපුම් 5 ක් (කිලෝමීටර 8.0) එහා සිට සැතපුම් 12 ක් (කි.මී. 12.9) Thudugala හංදියෙන් ගමන් කරන විට, ඔබ එංගලන්තයේ රතු වතුවල ලකුණක් සහිතව ඊගල්වා වාව (හන්දිය අසල) තවත් ස්ථානයකට පැමිණෙනු ඇත. එතැනින් ඔබට දිය ඇල්ලට හා ස්වාභාවික නානකාමම්වලට යෑමට අවශ්ය නම්, අසල ඇති කුඩා පාලම හරහා වම් පසින් ගමන් කළ යුතුය. නිවැරදි මාර්ගයේ ඔබට තුඩුගල ඇල්ල දිය ඇල්ලෙහි ස්වාභාවික සුන්දරත්වය පිළිබඳ දර්ශනයකින් තොරව කෘතිම නාන ස්ථානයක් පමණක් ගෙන එනු ඇත.

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Location: Dodangoda, Sri Lanka

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