Horton Plaints : Sri Lanka's Cloud Forest National Park

Author(s) : Pethiyagoda
Publisher : WHT
ISBN : 9789559114413
Price ( Sri Lankan Rupees ) : LKR. 4,750.00
Description : With an average elevation of 2,100 metres (6,900 feet), Horton Plains is Sri Lanka’s loftiest national park. It is also part of the recently-declared UNESCO Central Highlands World Heritage Site. Bordered by Kirigalpotta and Totupolakanda, Sri Lanka’s second and third-highest peaks, the Park offers unparalleled scenery and opportunities for trekking through a pristine tropical montane cloud forest. Despite its small size (just 31 square kilometres ― 12 square miles), its unique landscape and attractions such as the World’s End escarpment and Baker’s Falls, have made it Sri Lanka’s most-visited national park. Horton Plains, however, offers more than just scenery. It is a centre of remarkable biological richness and endemism even within Sri Lanka, which itself is part of a Global Biodiversity Hot-spot.