Hiking and Trekking in Kandy

Hiking and Trekking in Kandy takes you on exploration trails of the beautiful Knuckles and Hanthana Mountain Ranges. The Knuckles range spans over a distance of 155 square kilometres, an untouched zone with many forests, biodiversity of flora and fauna and gorgeous natural beauty. Since the Knuckles Mountain Range has been declared a World Heritage Site for its conservation area, it provides many trekking opportunities making the serious hiker or trekker choices of different trek routes and for how long. The treks will take you through small villages, tea plantations, terraced paddy fields, wild forests, flowing rivers and beautiful cascading waterfalls. Popular hiking/trekking trails are Mini World’s End from Deanston; Trail to Dothalugala from Deanston; Trail to Nitro Caves from Corbett’s Gap; Trail to Augallena cave via Thangappuwa from Corbett’s Gap; Trail to Kalupahana from Meemure village.
Trekking through Hanthana Mountain Range is an ideal excursion for bird watching and it also takes you through tea estates and a footpath which leads to Kandy. This footpath is generally popular for bird watching and for views of scenic panoramas of the surrounding towns of Kandy, Galaha and Peradeniya.