To the Queen! 0020

They have to pick 18kg of tea a day and only get paid $3 for the privilege. The plantation provides a shack type house. The houses stay in the family, so if the children do not become tea pickers, the women lose the house when they get to old to work. This traps generations in grinding poverty.

To the Queen!

October 13th 2011
Hello everyone! Welcome to another installment of my ramblings. This one won’t be an epic because as before, the pictures tell all the story and I fear I will simply be repeating myself. Sri Lanka continues to be a fantastic to visit, it continues to throw up the most colorful surprises and the people continue to be wonderful. So….After leaving Tringo. I headed inland for one of my tre ... read more

Asia » Sri Lanka » Central Province » Ella

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

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