Planning your tour

Organizing a tour is not as easy as it looks. Especially if it is for a place where you have never ever been and it makes so hard if the place is far away. The worst case is that you can’t even drive before organizing it because it’s far and incur additional cost. Thus it is unable to get public transport because its lack in that area. So what shall you do? Get an idea from a friend who has been there before or just forgetting about it.

Riverston is not much famous as much as Horton plans but is much more beautiful and hundreds of places to see from a single day tour to even a three or four day tour. There are trekking trails, waterfalls, nature scenes, natural bathing places, camping sites, bird watching activities, cycling activities and much more to do there. Most importantly it is amazingly beautiful. What you get by been there is much more than the above list. The climate is important. Most of the time, it is getting changed at least once a hour from misty to windy and sunshine to a little rain. The cold wind will always make not only the body feel like heaven but the mind relaxing calm environment is not able to get from anywhere around Sri Lanka.

So to get Riverston Summit which you can get by driving 20-30Kms from Matale is the most common place that most people visit and even know. Of course it is beautiful to see and many meters to walk that you will see thousands of scenes that the photographers are dying to get one like that and the cold wind will make you so relax. But after the summit the road will be continuing towards Pitawala Pathana and you can even go to Wasgamuwa Nationa Park by driving approximately 1-2 hours.

What most visitors who are coming by their own vehicles or hired ones will certainly come to the summit and get rest there and if they get sometimes left they may drive to Thelgamu Oya to get a bath and then drive back home. But this can be much more interesting if you can plan your tour little better and here is a point where we can help you.

Mostly our clients start their journey from Colombo or so in the evening of a day so that they will get Matale Town and then Ratthota Bazar which is the last town that you will get when you drive to Riverston when it’s getting dark or even midnight. From there onwards, you won’t see many houses or sometimes you get very beautiful sceneries as well. So morning is the best time that we recommend our visitors to drive.

We facilitate bungalow and hotel rooms or even guest houses based on the visitors request and the budget and you will get the rest at there in the night. The important fact is that then you will have the following full day and will not be tired of driving few hours because you have already come to the boundary of Riverston. So now it is the time to rest the night and you can start from there on following day early morning. So you will get the best timing to reach to the summit of Riverston and then will have more time to visit Pitawala Pathana, Mini Worlds End and the usually the rest of the places that most visitors go and before getting too dark, you will be able to get back.  However this is the primary tour that we suggest you to arrange but there are lots of places that you will be able to see and feel the nature. We will discuss it soon but for now I thnk it is enough for you. So remember Riverston is a place that you can stay days and get relax.