Scenic ride to Kallebokka and Hulangala

Year and Month	2018 July 22
Number of Days	One
Crew	7 Members from the team
Accommodation	N/A
Transport	Motor Bikes
Activities	Scenery, Photography, Sight seeing, Water fall hunting.
Weather	Sunny and Gloomy weather
Route	Peradeniya-> Katugatota -> Madwala -> Panwila -> Kallebokka -> Kabaragala -> Kandenuwara -> Matale -> Palapathwela -> Selagama -> Biso Ella -> Hulangala -> Return via Matale
Tips, Notes and Special remark	Take a bottle of water Do not carry Plastic items (Minimize), Make sure you bring back everything you took. Buy tickets to visit Kalleboka. Price Rs. 100 per person. Three wheeler hire charge is Rs. 800 to top from the main road (Up & Down) for Kallebookka (if required). Ask directions from locals Do not visit during rainy season

Our team members wanted go for a bike ride without much of hiking. I read report on these places and all these places can be visited without much effort. Therefore we planned a trip to Matale region. In this trip we have visited following places;

Kallebokka 360 View Point
Biso Ella
Hulangala Mini Worlds End

Kallebokka 360 View Point

Kallebokka is a estate in Panwila – kabaragala road next to Madulkele, Central Province, Sri Lanka. It is located at an elevation of 1175 meters above sea level. The 360 View point located at the highest peak in the division/estate is the attractive place where most of the locals visit to view the surrounding beauties. We can see knuckles range with it’s highest peaks and the famous Sembuwatta Lake also can be seen. A ticket of 100/- is issued at the entrance passing the village.The road uphill is tough and all vehicles cannot be driven to the top. Bikes and 4 wheel drivers are recommended. You will never regret after reaching the top.

We can use a shortcut to reach the peak. the road with a gate near the land mark 1 ( resting hut). Also you can fill water at this place.

hut in the view point seen from resting point

.	Line houses-Kallebokka

Team	Back at the starting point

After the Kallebokka visit we took the Kabaragala-kandenuwara road to Matale. This road is very narrow and with absolute beauty. The road from Pitakanda to Kandenuwara is a road for scenaries.

We reached the Matale around 3:00 pm. from there we rushed to Selagama. used the google maps for finding short routes and reached selagama. the road to hulangala and biso ella starts from the Suluna pahura temple after passing the Embody trading garments factory. After 2 km ride up in this road we can reach the selagama line house.

Biso Ella

Biso ella located near the Kovil .Take right hand turn from Selagama lime house junction and drive up to the Kovil. Then you have to go along the Marshy land in front of the Kovil to reach the waterfall. Biso falls has low water level and this is like Sera ella where we can see falls from behind in the cave. A story about seven princes is related to this waterfall, they committed suicide by jumping from the fall(From Niroshan’s Report). Ask the direction from locals. Even a kid will tell you the path.

Full view cannot be seen from here. I have taken some photos using the drone.

After spending some time at this place we came back to the kovil where we parked our bikes and the time was around 4:15 pm. Our next destination is Hulanagala to which we need to go another 2 km. On the way to Hulangala we can see Ambokka peak.

Hulangala Mini Worlds End

Hulangala mini world’s end is situated at Selagama tea estate. Distance is 2km from Selagama Kovil to reach this Mini world’s end. Bikes, three Wheeler can easily reach this place