Montane grassland and cloud forest at Horton Plains in the central highlands
MONTANE PLATEAUPhoto by Ishan Kahapola Arachchi on Unsplash32 km from Nuwara Eliya

HIKING · NATIONAL PARK

A Plateau, and the Drop at Its Edge

Horton Plains National Park · Hill Country

Built

1988

Visit

Half-day

Best

Sunrise

Region

Hill Country

The only national park in Sri Lanka where visitors walk freely on marked trails instead of touring by jeep — and the only way to reach World's End before mist rolls in is on foot at dawn.

A montane grassland and cloud forest plateau at around 2,100 metres, gazetted as a national park in 1988. The main loop trail is roughly 9 km and passes Baker's Falls and the cliff edge known as World's End, where the land drops about 870 metres.

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