Adam's Peak

Adam's Peak Sri lanka

Adams Peak is Climbed by most Sri Lankans, Partly as it is a Pilgrimage mainly for Budhist, how ever i later learned that it is not just budhist, but all four major religions claim some thing or another of the mountain. This is a good thing at least then we sri lankans get to experience the impeccable beauty of the creation,from the mountain tops.
Our Journey started off at around 2000hours from kandy, Myself(bambi),Nissanka and Tehani being the once in  urge of adventure accompanied by Saman and his nephew for whom it was a pilgrimage, We arrived at the foot of the mountain driven by Bernard in his van on the way we managed to spot a lone sambar, this made my blood pump in even harder. As soon as we started climbing i felt such a relief so did the others as to the fact that we were finally climbing Adam's peak. it was more of a climbing up steps this didnt help me as my stride was constrained to a tiny half a foot of a step, but slowly we climbed our selves up.

On top of Adam's peak

Sun rise, Adam's peak

Pilgrims both young and old have a great way to forget about the toughness of the terain, this is something i do as well even though i am aware that it takes even more energy, once in a way hum a tune or two when i climb just like that, the Pilgrims sing songs this is more of self motivational songs(kavi), with all that we pressed on forward both Nissanka and Tehani doing really well,

I cant exatcly remember the time, but we reached almost to the top having a good 2 hours to spare(i think), so there we oppened Nissanka's (pitty(floor)-full))aggalla and to make it even better Tehani's (suger free)coffee, Didnt we have the biggest of laughs in that cold night? gosh we did!

and soon we decided to go to the top of adams peak, there were so many to witness the sunrise, And with people from all over the world we watched the Sun rise, through the mountain tops I loved every bit of it!! words cannot tell how much you feel up there!

Adams peak with Nissanka, Tehani, Saman, Saman's nephew and Myself
January 4th 2012