World heritage Horton plains

World heritage Horton Plains in Sri Lanka 

    Horton Plains is a beautiful, silent, strange world with some excellent hikes in the shadows of Sri Lanka’s second- and third-highest mountains, Kirigalpotta (2395m) and Totapola (2357m). The ‘plains’ form an undulating plateau over 2000m high, covered by wild grasslands and interspersed with patches of thick forest, rocky outcrops, filigree waterfalls and misty lakes. The surprising diversity of the landscape is matched by the wide variety of wildlife

 The forests are seen on the hilltops or upper slopes the grassland in the valleys and lower slopes, eventually giving way to wetland habitats. spanning approximately  10000 hectares the park also home to a wide variety of flora ( 57. species, 29 endemic to Sri Lanka) and 24 species of mammal such porcupine and leopard for bird enthusiasts, there 87. species 14 of which are endemic including many migratory birds.