Adventure
Sri Lanka Nature Lovers
Rainforest, waterfalls, Horton Plains and a safari
A short, green route: Kitulgala rainforest and rafting, the tea hills, the World’s End trek at Horton Plains, and a safari to finish.
Hill Country
Horton Plains
The island ends, suddenly, at World End.
- Region
- Hill Country
- Best time
- January to March
- How long to stay
- 1 day
Horton Plains sits at 2,100 metres: cold, wind-scoured grassland broken by patches of stunted cloud forest, unlike anywhere else in Sri Lanka.
The walk is a nine-kilometre loop taking in Baker Falls and both Mini and Greater World End, where the plateau simply stops and falls away 880 metres to the plain below.
You must start before six. By nine the cloud closes in and World End becomes a wall of white. This is not negotiable, and it is why we send you out with an early breakfast box.
What not to miss
- The World End escarpment
- Baker Falls
- Endemic montane birdlife
- Sambar deer on the grassland
Journeys including this place
Tours that visit Horton Plains.
Start here
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