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Baker's Fall, which are 20 meters high, are situated on the
Belihul Oya within the Horton Plains National Park in Sri Lanka. Baker's Falls plunge over a wide rock into a gorge filled with Rhododendrons. This waterfall is named after Sir Samuel Baker, who resided on the island from 1847 to 1855. Baker was one of the first to popularize the emerging health resort of Nuwara Eliya, which is close by. He did so partly by importing from England the livestock, tools and labour necessary to establish an English-style farm in the temperate hill country of the new and underdeveloped colony. The farm was important as it was the first systematic attempt at establishing imported livestock on the island. Furthermore, the vegetables Baker introduced have today become valuable commercial crops.
Baker was an avid hunter as well as an adventurous farmer. Among the first animals imported for Baker's Farm (as it became known) were a pack of foxhounds. Soon Baker was exploring the best hunting grounds to be found on the island - the Horton Plains - and the waterfall he used to stop at frequently was named after him. There is a 3-kilometre footpath to Baker's Falls within the Horton Plains National Park starting from the Farr Inn Information Centre.