The forgotten path to Bibile from top of Mini Worlds end

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Mini world’s end of Elamanna is the best out of all four known worlds’ ends in SL for me and that’s why I visited the same place thrice within a period of one year. This time though I was lucky because there was no mist and I did enjoy the full view which I was craving for. On the previous two days I had hiked strenuously by visiting Udawadiya, Lunugala peak, Bambaragala pathana, Kohonawala villege and to add on to that I had to walk 18 more Km’s to achieve something I dreamt of.

From Madulsima I took a bus towards Cocagalla from where I had to walk roughly 3Km’s to reach worlds end (for directions refer this trip report). As I said previously I was rewarded very well though the sky was bit gloomy, I hope you guys would enjoy these images before I get in to the main topic of this report. By the way the road towards Elamanna worlds end would be fully carpeted by next year and I also overheard that they are building a hotel on the edge of worlds end. After returning back to Pitamaruwa road I proceeded about 1Km and reached a left bend where and open plateau could be seen on the right and yes that was Mini (mini) worlds end. This place is a good spot for night camping because of the space it offered.

beautiful country side

A minor staff guy who i met on the way, he walks 8Km’s to reach Roeberry hospital daily for duty

landmarks

Towards Randenigala

danger abyss it says

towards Namal oya and gal oya forest

drop of drops

the path to the end

Danigala and gal oya reservoir

Sorobora far away and dambara wewa close by

Pano towards north central, central,uva, Eastern and southern Sri Lanka

gloomy but clear

Pano from Madolsima mini worlds end

Nagadeepa lake and Cocagala with ulhitiya reservoir

Kotagama village

Ul hela bambaragala at makare

the eastern slopes of central hills

the view

wow

towards dorapoda

Kotagama

the future hotel site

valley of Bibile

degal hela on right at siyambalanduwa , govinda hela on left

Gal oya & Namal oya

Wadinagala range and walasgala

ocean can be seen over the peaks of gal oya

friars hood close to uhana

Dimbulagala seen far away

Eastern shores of Sri Lanka (Batticaloa)

clouds started to build up

mount inginiyagala

sheer drop

paddy fields of Kotagama

rain Lilly

gloomy it was

the plate

faces of Elamanna

towards the right of that tea patch mini mini worlds end is located

flame flower

waiting to be wrapped with mist

reaching 2nd worlds end

view from the second worlds end

endless view

the main worlds end as seen from the second one

what a seat

nagadeepa, soro bora, dambarawa, mapakada lakes

Pano from Mini Mini worlds end

From here onwards it was a lonely walk on a broken road which caused my legs to ache for months. The next 8Km’s towards Dehigala was very scenic but the turbulent windy weather offered some challenging conditions to my stride. I reached a junction where I took the downhill right hand route to Dehigala, while the left one would have taken me to Roeberry. After a steep descent I reached Dehigala estate line houses which belong to Monaragala district. Unfortunately for administrative purposes these people are bound to go to Monaragala or Bibila and their village been on top of a worlds end doesn’t help in that cause. The only option they have is to descend via a foot path which is almost 5Km’s long.

yep there were few climbs

thats where worlds end was

more to walk…thanks to the lack of transportation

living away from the busy world

Rathkele

plenty of gods

walking miles…

childhood is very simple for these kids

wow	the lonely path

look at those branches

more to walk i guess

Kalu kele(Kalu gala) peaks which are my next targets

path to Dehigala estate which belongs to monaragala district

Dehigala estate and the gap towards bibila

helpful villagers

smiles

catching tadpoles

isgedi

foot path to Karagahawela bibile

towards ridimaliyadda and padiyathalawa

this is a confusing junction one needs to take the right foot path rather than the left road

The road to Bibila had been promised by many politicians and even attempted to construct it once and for few months bikes went up and down but with time this path has washed away and narrowed down back to a foot path covered with mana. The road that leaves away from the line houses takes a sharp bend where few turpentine trees could be seen. At this bend there is a small foot path to the right. This is the foot path that will take one towards Karagahawela villege. I started my descent slowly. The initial path was on a flat path and one could here Dehigala Falls cascading at a lower level which I didn’t attempt to get close to it at that stage. In time I started to take frequent bends and the descent begun. The path was lonely but the stunning scenery made me forget all about that. This is one of the scenic descents I have done, the mountains and lakes seen were nothing new for me though. Valley of Gal oya, Bibila and Mahiyangana sides were seen on and off while descending. Few monkeys who were jumping here and there were the only disturbance I had. The 5Km odd trail seemed to be never ending and finally I reached the dry zone forest which was a blessing for me considering the dehydration I went through while traversing the mana. I only met one person who was ascending up after been to Bibila town and when I met him he was setting fire to the mana to clear the path. Fortunately I got through before the fire started to spread around. The tiring journey finally ended at Karagahawela where I had to walk a good 2 – 3Km’s to reach a proper civilization where I hired a trishaw to Bibile. I was happy that it finally rained because on the back of my mind I was wondering what would happen to that bush fire the villager started. I highly recommend this hike to other travelers too and don’t worry about water the path runs close to a stream at its mid-point but don’t pollute it because a considerable population use that stream as their main water source.

the breeze was a huge problem

the foot path continues

the worlds end where i was few hours ago

towards makara

lifeless

attempt to construct the road

on the way scenery

worlds end

aralu bulu nelli

beautiful path

magical

endless clicks

more scenery

overgrown

ul hela

different terrain

obstacles

“may mahaththaya koheda yanne”

he had made a fire , almost got caught to a bush fire

dry zone forest

answer to my thirst

any idea?

closing to ground level

reached karagahawela road after 5kms of descending

landmark

the range i descended

Thanks for reading!