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The Hike of My Life-4 Days in the Knuckles Range:Day 4

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(From Bambarella through Kalupahana along Kalu-ganga to Rambukoluwa and Pallegama) Continuing from  The Hike of My Life - 4 Days in the Knuckles Range: Day 3 Day 4 We were determined to find a way to get to the bottom of the 9th waterfall. The night before, each of us agreed to take two-hour shifts to guard the tent, but by the end of the night it had changed, at least two of us were awake the whole time and spent time talking (I'm just gonna drop the fact that we were too scared to take the watch alone :)  Since our food supplies were running out and mostly because we had no clue when we'd be able to reach human habitat, we decided to start the journey as early as 6 a.m. after having a little breakfast and packing up the tent. To reach the bottom, we had to go around the waterfall, and it was a slippery slope, but actually that made us go faster using tree branches as a support. It felt like flying. After more than two hours of climbing down, we found the river, but it