Tea Plantation Visits

A properly guided visit to a working Ceylon tea estate in the highlands – walking the plantation rows at picking time, watching the factory process from withering to grading, and finishing with a comparative tasting of fresh-brewed estate grades – is far more engaging than the average traveller expects. The highland tea landscape is extraordinary, the factory smells are incredible, and the tasting at the end gives ‘I’ll just have a cup of tea’ a permanent new meaning