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Asia » Sri Lanka » Central Province » Hatton March 20th 2009

All around the Bogawantalawa valley (easy to cut and paste, harder to say!) are signs pronouncing this as Ceylon's Golden Tea Valley, and proclaiming that this is "Arguably the best tea in the world". I couldn't argue with that, not being a connoisseur of tea myself. I will agree that it is very good tea - and today we're on a short trip to see how it gets from field to cup. We woke at 6 - well, I did. Roy was actually wakened at 5 by Buddhist chanting from a nearby temple - it is played on a tape and the same chant loops over and over for about 45 minutes or so. Didn't wake me though. We'd odered "bed tea" for 7am and it arrived promptly. I wasn't sure if we were supposed to ... read more
Tea Factory at Norwood
Factory Rules
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Asia » Sri Lanka » Central Province » Hatton March 19th 2009

After what seemed like a whistlestop tour of Kandy, today we're on the move again. We'd asked for breakfast at 7 - they served it on our verandah. Have I mentioned our verandah - it's huge! Finally got to try something vaguely Sri Lankan to eat - Egg Hoppers and onion sambol. Preceded by a tropical fruit platter. Oh, and the fruit juice they served was pineapple and coriander - great combination. Roy had cornflakes, followed by pancakes with pineapple compote. The egg hoppers were good - I'd been looking forward to trying them, I like eggs a lot and these were tasty. Seelan picked us up at 7.30am - today he's taking us to Perideniya Junction to pick up a train to Hatton. He had a fairly stressful drive across rush hour Kandy to get ... read more
Peradeniya Junction, nr Kandy
Observation Carriage
Leaving Kandy




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