Early morning at Castlereagh

"Arguably the best tea in the world."

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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 - w ... read more

Asia » Sri Lanka » Central Province » Hatton

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The Sinhalese arrived in Sri Lanka late in the 6th century B.C., probably from northern India. Buddhism was introduced beginning in about the mid-third century B.C., and a great civilization developed at the cities of Anuradhapura (kingdom from circa... ... read more