At 2,100 metres, Horton Plains is the highest and flattest landscape in Sri Lanka. The 9-kilometre circular trail passes through montane cloud forest to World’s End, a sheer escarpment where the plateau simply stops and the plains 900 metres below open out on a clear morning. Baker’s Falls on the return route. The dawn departure is non-negotiable.
Nuwara Eliya
The colonial hill station at 1,868 metres - still faintly Victorian
Nuwara Eliya was built by the British to feel like home, and the result is genuinely strange and wonderful - a Victorian post office, a racecourse, a hill club with a dress code and tea estates stretching across every visible hillside. The cold air, the colonial buildings and the estate landscape combine into something unlike anywhere else in South Asia.
