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Ceylon Tea Experience: An Excursion through Tea Plantations Starting from Colombo Port Terminal
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2 Ratings
Ingiriya
Embark on a captivating excursion through tea plantations, rice fields, and rubber plantations. Experience the art of tea plucking and manufacturing, explore Colombo's top sights, and indulge in shopping. Book now!
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Ingiriya - leave for Ingiriya which is the nearest tea field from Colombo. Sri Lanka is well known for its wide variety of teas. This tour gives you an opportunity to visit the tea factory at Ingiriya, a Tea Plantation located in the western area of Sri Lanka. Leave the quayside by coach and enjoy a relaxing 90-minute journey to Inigiriya Tea Plantation, where you’ll be welcomed with aromatic garlands made of tea leaves. Visit the tea plantation and the rubber plantation area where you can witness the tea plucking (a process that requires skill and can determine whether tea attains its full flavor signature) and rubber tapping (a special method of cutting to extract latex from a rubber tree) activities. Proceed to a tea factory, where some of the best tea in the world is produced. Here you’ll observe the process of manufacturing tea, learn how tea is graded, and ultimately taste a cup of pure Ceylon tea in the place where it’s grown, harvested, graded, and processed.
What's Included
- Entrance fee to tea factory included
- Professional driver/guide provided
- Private vehicle transportation
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks
Additional Information
We simplify your journey and enhance your comfort with our shore excursion. You’ll travel privately, enjoy sights like rice lands, rubber farms, and Ceylon tea estates. Experience tea picking and manufacturing processes, and on your return, marvel at the top attractions in Colombo, do some shopping before finally being dropped off at the Colombo port passenger terminal.
- Dress code is smart casual
Location
Ingiriya
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Nomad24967536505
Mar 4, 2024
Private tour to the tea factory including tea plantation - Great tour and you see a lot of the country and its people, as it takes about 1.5 hours for a tour. The tea factory and plantation were also well explained. The entrance fee was not included but not expensive. We really enjoyed the tour in the comfortable car.🤩
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Hopper1869
Feb 3, 2020
A good shore excursion - The trip was ideal for the number of hours we were in port on a cruise. We were met at the pier with our name clearly visible and were quickly allocated a car and a driver. We were taken around the main local temples, tea tasting etc before a long journey out to the tea plantation. Time there was limited to a few minutes as there is not a lot to see but beware the need to tip the tea pickers if there are photos taken! The tea factory was an eye opener in terms of working conditions but all the staff were happy - or seemed so. We were brought back to the ship in plenty of time with the driver providing plenty of background about his country.
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