Horton Plains Trails
Short walks across a high cloud-forest plateau inside Horton Plains National Park, including the World's End loop.
Trails
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Best Season
January–March (clearest mornings); avoid heavy southwest monsoon April–June
How to Get There
Park entrance is about 32 km from Nuwara Eliya by road. Most visitors arrange a pre-dawn taxi to start the walk by 6 a.m.
Permit Information
National park entry fee at the Pattipola gate; foreigners pay a higher rate than locals.
Horton Plains National Park sits above 2,100 meters in the Central Highlands and is the easiest place to walk inside the World Heritage montane landscape. The standard visitor route is the World's End loop, a roughly 9-kilometer circular trail past Little World's End, World's End escarpment, and Baker's Falls. Off-track walking is not allowed. Mornings are usually clearer than afternoons, when cloud rolls in across the escarpment.
Trails in Horton Plains Trails
- ★World's End Loop9 km—→