A UNESCO World Heritage highland plateau at nearly 2,200 metres – a landscape of open montane grassland, cloud forest, and endemic wildlife that culminates in the sheer cliff edge of World’s End, where the plateau drops 880 metres to the lowland plains in the most dramatic natural viewpoint in Sri Lanka. Visited at dawn before the daily mist rolls in, Horton Plains is one of those rare natural environments that rewards the effort of an early start with an experience of genuinely otherworldly beauty.