Horton Plains National Park

The Horton Plains National Park is the only nationalpark.

Situated in the wet zone of the country and falls

withi-n the Nuwara Eliya district. It is Sri Lanka's beautiful

andspacial national park.Situated 2300m above sea
lev el this national park has di fferent climatic conditions

and habitat to allthe other nationalpark.The Horton Plains

national park is best popular andfamus national park.

Almost all life farms in Horton pl-ins are adpted to the

high altitude conditions.There area lot of endemic flora

and fauna found in the p;ains it se-lf.The endemicity

among fsunais comparatively high.B-ear monkey,sambhur

and Leopard are some interesti-ng mamals.one would also

find sevaral endemic hill c-ountry bird in the Horton Plains

National Park. The p-anoramic scenic beauty of the hill

country could be w-ithnessed withing the park.The famous

"world's end"and "Bakers Falls" are major attraction. The

kirlgalpo-tta,second highest peak and the Thotapola,third

high-est peak of the country are also situated in the Horton

Plains.