A Scenic Drive to Horton Plains

We had decided to visit Horton Plains on our first day in Nuwara Eliya, so taking our breakfast of delicious chicken curry, seeni-sambol and bread we started our drive past a beautiful lake. We stopped to take a few pictures and were soon making friends with two dogs.. or at least Anton and I were making friends with the two dogs, while Hyacinth and Janani yelled at us to make them go away. We then drove on to a forest lodge overlooking the lake where we sat and had our breakfast. All the leftovers were handfed to the two dogs who followed the vehicle to the forest lodge.

The drive to the plains is an absolutely long and beautiful one… the road (admittedly in rather a bad state of repair) winds past the Ambewella Farm and up on to the plains round hairpin bends. The steep inclines left us gasping at the sheer beauty of the place, and a little bit of fear too in case Anton lost control of the vehicle and sent us down the precipice!

We reached the plains and found a lot of environmental protection laws in place. We were not permitted to carry any plastic with us on the trek to see the World’s End and Bakers Fall. They were so strict that they made us break open our packs of biscuits and peanuts and other snacks. They gave us newspaper in which to wrap our snacks up in and they thoroughly checked each bag we carried to make sure that no plastic bags or packing was carried in. Unfortunately they seemed to permit plastic bottles, and to my dismay I saw some plastic bottles dropped along the way on the plains.