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The essential Tea Trails experience. Our Resident Tea Planter, Andrew Taylor, will show you first hand the age-old tea making process. First, follow the trail of the planters of old Ceylon, as they trekked through the dense jungle looking for the best slopes on which to plant tea. Then on to watch the tea pluckers pick two leaves and a bud with deft hands. Then to the factory where the all-important conversion to "made" black tea happens.

The machinery used is of very traditional British design, some as old as 100 years. The process is a very artisanal one, unchanged for a century. The tour ends with a tasting of different grades of this great brew.

Approximately 2.5 hours. Departure from Bungalow at 0830am and return at 11am. Free of charge.

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