At a local tea factory, the ritual of high tea is a ceremonial affair, a tribute to the leaf that shaped the fortunes of this region. Kandy’s blue buses add a pop of colour to the city’s busy ...

Tea being filtered at the Kinnelan tea factory in Ella, Uva province. ... Dinusha is a tea picker from the central district of Kandy. Tea pickers were hit hard by the ban on chemical fertilizers.

After 17 hours of flying across the world, I arrive to Kandy’s tuk-tuk-packed streets, where Sri Lanka’s tea industry first began, 150 years ago.

The Mlesna Tea Fortress is an imposing structure that captures your attention while travelling along the Kandy Road in Kiribathkumbura. Inspired by a fo ...

Of Sri Lanka’s seven key tea districts, Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, Dimbula and Uva province are perhaps most famous for producing the finest Ceylon pekoe black, green and silver tip tea.

Record profits and record prices paid to tea smallholders Incorporated on the 30th of September in 1992 as a public company fully owned by the government of Sri Lanka, Kalubowitiyana Tea Factory Ltd ...

The tea factory now stands in its Victorian grandeur, re-christened as ‘Tea and Experience Factory’, an experiential boutique hotel. ‘Tea and Experience factory’ was ceremonially re-opened on the ...

Andrew Eames travelled to Kandy with Experience Travel Group (020 3355 5669; experiencetravelgroup.com) which offers a nine-night Sri Lanka holiday from £2,295pp, including boutique accommodation ...