Horton Plains in Sri Lanka

                                                             
                                        Horton Plains

National park, an hour away from Nuwara Eliya. These plains, formed by millions of years of erosion, lie right on top of Sri Lanka’s mountains. Here large herds of elk, silhouetted against clouds of the lowlands, move among scarlet rhododendrons. World’s End gives you unparalled views of the flatlands to the south, as you teeter on the edge of an 800 metre high precipice.

Buffeted by the wind, the highlands of the Horton Plains NP include some of the island’s most spectercular landscapes, with stretches of grassland and forest, giant ferns, trees clawing  the clouds, and peat- rimmed lakes. This strange, wild, almost melancholy landscape was discovered by the tea planter Thomas Farr, who named it after Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, governor of the island from 1831 to 1837.