Nuwara Eliya & Horton Plains

Things to see in Sri Lanka: Nuwara Eliya & Horton Plains

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This once popular British hill station in the heart of tea country is now a quaint and charming resort. The cooler climate due to its elevation make for startlingly different birdlife, and various interesting species include two endemics: the yellow-eared bulbul and the Sri Lanka hill white-eye.

At nearby Horton Plains, Sri Lanka's highest plateau terminates at the sheer precipice of World's End with a drop of 1,050 metres to the plains below. This is the perfect environment for a distinctive flora with many wild orchids, colourful butterflies, and many rare highland birds that include almost all the country's endemics.

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