A Route du Bonheur pilgrimage into Sri Lanka’s storied tea plantations uncovers the fragrant, fertile world of oolong, orange ...

When I reach Galaha in Sri Lanka’s central highlands ... The footpath crosses the Deltotte Tea Estate, where rows of parakeet-green tea bushes — each exactly a metre apart and pruned to ...

Leaves from the lush green tea estates covering the hills of central Sri Lanka end up in cups across the world. Tea is the island's biggest export, normally bringing in more than $1bn a year ...

It’s a new day in Sri ... Sri Lanka is superlatively beautiful. Its trees tend to flower, its waters are cloaked in lilies, and the landscape is peppered with waterfalls, emerald-green tea ...

Sri Lanka’s tea production, as expected ... The CTC production accounted for almost 9 percent of the total and green tea less than one percent. The orthodox production for 2022 was 90 percent and ...

The Pekoe Trail in Sri Lanka I’m overnighting at this restful ... guest offering is a teaology food-pairing. I learn how green tea can offset spices, in this case, a delicious chilli-studded ...

Sri Lanka has earned a global reputation for its high-quality tea, thanks to the generations of workers who bring this "green gold" to life. From the high-altitude slopes where leaves are ...

It's 8am and there is sleeting rain — miserable conditions to be outside, let alone work in Sri Lanka's ... It's too tough." Tea pickers are required to harvest 18 kilograms of green tea leaves ...

Likewise, they ‘discovered’ cinnamon and black pepper in Sri Lanka, in addition to pearls—the mainstays of our pre-colonial export economy—and took these to the world. And then came tea and rubber ...