Ella's Ceylon Tea Plantation and Factory Tour
Description
This tea tour offers a truly unique and enriching experience for travelers, combining technical insights, cultural immersion, and expert-led guidance. Here’s what sets it apart: 1)Deep Technical Insights: Delve into topics like plant biology, agronomy, and the economics of tea production, offering a level of depth rarely found in other tours. Learn the art and science of tea-making, from leaf to cup. 2)Extensive Tasting Experience: Enjoy a curated tasting of diverse teas, including black, green, and artisan varieties 3)Cultural and Historical Context: Beyond production, explore the rich history and cultural significance of tea in Sri Lanka 4)Run by Industry Experts: The tour is led by a National Tour Guide Lecturer and a team of professionals with extensive backgrounds in tea plantation management. This tour is perfect for tea enthusiasts and curious travelers alike, offering an immersive journey into Sri Lanka’s tea heritage.
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Welcome to the gardens of Ceylon tea. In this tour you will go through the history, art and chemistry of renowned ceylon tea. You will visit Tea Plantation ( tea farms) and a tea Factory as the main places of visit. Its simple to find tea factories at central hills of Sri Lanka.But its hard to experience the art and chemistry of tea. Also the history and legends with that. Don't miss this opportunity. You going to experience all of them in this short tour. First you wll visit tea plantation and you will experience tea plucking at there. Then we visit black tea making factory. At the factory,you will experience how we manufacture tea, as well as how we keep the quality of ceylon tea. Later you will visit our tea center where you will taste wide range of teas including differnt black teas, green tea and Artisan teas In this tour you will learn why Ceylon tea is so special. You will taste the tea and get familiar with how to identify high quality tea. You will inspect and taste for quality of tea and finish the tour with sound knowledge about Ceylon Tea
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Reviews(19)
Fascinating to see the factory hasnt changed for the past 100 years and to learn a little about one of Sri Lanka’s major exports. Stunning scenery.
Thank you very much. it was great to host you
Amazing tour, don't hesitate and book it. Hashan is very knowledgeable, patient, easy to ubderstand and really cares about customer experience. In this tour, you get all the information about tea planting, processing in factory as well as tea tasting so you will understand the different tastes and where they come from.
Thank you so much. it was a great time with you. amazing discussion
Super day. We started out in one of the plantations with a brush up on the historical background of tea in Sri Lanka. Then off to the factory to see from the fresh leaves to tea ready for auction. We even had a go at picking tea ourselves. Also, a walk through the lime village where the workers live. Our tour ended back at the office with a tea tasting under qualified guidance. We learned a lot from this tour and can only recommend it.
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The guide was very friendly and showed us many interesting things at the tea plantation. He also explained a lot about the history of tea and fascinating facts. Later we visited the tea factory where we got an insight of how the production works. At the very end we had a tea tasting and tried about 10-15 different teas. I will highly recommend the tour!
Thank You very much. It was great to host you
We had a wonderful time with Hashan. He has so much expertise about the land, the culture, as well as tea growing and production. He does his job with an incredible passion that you can feel. He imparts the knowledge, lively, interesting and the tour felt totally entertaining. We started on the plantation and then went to the factory. There he showed us every single step of production, while in the background the factory employees went about their work. In the end we were allowed to taste the tea and he gave us tips on what to look out for when we want to buy tea. We can warmly recommend the tour to everyone:) Hashan has the best interests of its customers at heart.
Great experience of knowing such detailed information about tea, its history and production cycle We also enjoyed a lot a tea tasting organised by Hasan. Additional service, leeches protected socks, was really unexpected but so extraordinary and one of a kind, haven’t seen that nowhere Highly recommend if you consider tea tour while in Ella
We learned a lot about the collecting and production of tea. The guide was very friendly and had a big knowledge. The tasting of the tea was fine! But the costs of the tour seems to be to high!
Thank you very much for your review. Also we respect your opinion. I would like to add few comments regarding the price. what we are offering is not a free or less charged tours by some factories to sell their teas. Those tours have designed to sell there teas and only last for 15-30 min maximum time. If you compare our tour with them, yes this is expensive. But we are not doing sales. We offer deep insight in to the tea industry. What we are offering is a technical tea tour which last for 3 hours. Also all the tours are hosted by experienced licenced tour guides. Also all the tickets, transfer, tasting session fees included. All the details of the tour has included in the tour description. (📢This is for anyone who read the conversation. please go through other reviews and see the difference of typical tea tour and what we offer. If you expect just a short tour and photo stops, this is not a tour matching for you.) Again, I really appreciate your opinion and sorry if we made any inconvenience. Thank you very much.
Wonderful time spent with the guide who explained everything we needed to know. Included a factory visit and tasting.
From visiting the plantations, the factory, to tasting tea. I personally appreciated the preparation of the guide and the fact that nothing was done with the intention of selling something but simply to spread the knowledge of this crop so important for Sri Lanka.
Had such an amazing time! Couldn’t recommend enough! Very knowledgeable, lovely people and great tea! Thank you so much again!
