Manigala is located in the Knuckles Mountain Range. Most travellers who climb it up to see the beauty of Knuckles range also find the luck to see the beautiful Thelgamu-Oya. To the south of Dambulla – and to the north-east of Kandy – is one of Sri Lanka’s least-visited areas, the highlands area called the Dumbara Hills or, more exactly in Sinhala, Dumbara Kanduvetiya which translates as “The Misty Mountains”. The name is appropriate given the cloud cover often found at the 1000 meter plus sections of the range. The British would give it yet another name, referring to it as the Knuckles Range because from the Kandy area the appearance of the dominant peaks brought to mind the knuckles of a clenched fist!
