Ceylon Tea and Cooking Holiday

After breakfast leave for Nuwara Eliya via Kandy. In Kandy visit Hantana Estate where you could visit the Tea Museum of Sri Lanka, See the original hand-operated machinery used at Loolkondura Estate for tea production along with other items exhibited for the history of tea in Sri Lanka. Also visit Tea Research Station at Hantana for middle grown tea research.

After Lunch visit the Royal Botanical Gardens Peradeniya.

Thereafter proceed to Nuwara Eliya via Galaha and en-route visit Loolkondura Estate where the first Tea Plantation was started in 1867 by James Taylor. The first shipment of tea from Sri Lanka was in 1872 in two small packs containing 23 pounds valued at Rs 58/-. Today we export more than 280million Kilograms and Sri Lanka is the largest exporter of tea in the World. You can see some of the original tea plants planted by James Taylor.

After the estate visit proceed to Hatton. The Luxury Tea !

Visit a Tea Estate, obtain a tea plucking cane basket and enjoy plucking tea leaves for fun and also enjoy watching the Tea plucking ladies at their work. Thereafter proceed to visit the Tea Factory to witness the process of getting the final Tea Leaves

Evening we will arrange a Tea Tasting Session at the hotel and a High Tea Evening at the hotel Garden

After breakfast proceed to Negombo for your beach stay.

On completion you may proceed to Negombo if possible en-route visit a fully computerized state of the art Tea Factory Closer to Colombo. Here you may witness the tea grading process and how the tea is being packed in to small packs which finally reaches the consumer.
On completion of the Tea Factory tour you may proceed to Negombo for your overnight stay.