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Loved spending the morning visiting this tea plantation and learning about tea making process. Our guide Seena was so nice and helpful and we got to taste their special oolong tea with some delicious chocolate cake. Seeing all the old machines and how they are used was very cool and would not have imagined they are still standing after 150 years! Nice bonus is that the place is solar powered !!!!! Highly recommend :)
Fatim&Isaac
Fatim&Isaac
Amazing place to visit. Our guide was so knowledgeable, his English really good, and with a beautiful sense of humour making the trip so much fun. The shop has a vast array of tea gifts. I will be back!!!
Very special place to visit, the staff is really friendly and give you all information about tea and spices that they grow locally, about the tea making process with the visit on the factory, and their teas are the best I ever tasted, I bought so many different kind.
I really reccomend it for a visit on a tea plantation and want to get the really good tea.
I really reccomend it for a visit on a tea plantation and want to get the really good tea.
We would have given 5 stars, but we learnt the hard way that the tea is sold not double, not triple but 4 times the price of the tea shops we saw in Galle.
The visit is really nice and gives you an insight of the local agriculture life, very nice tea and cake as a welcome sweet treat. To have the perfect experience : just limit yourself to the 2$ entrance and just leave a generous tip at the end. We paid 45$ for 30g of white tea thinking we couldn’t find it anywhere else, huge mistake we found out the next day leaving with a bitter sweet taste. I wish we had given 20$ of tips instead of buying anything.
The visit is really nice and gives you an insight of the local agriculture life, very nice tea and cake as a welcome sweet treat. To have the perfect experience : just limit yourself to the 2$ entrance and just leave a generous tip at the end. We paid 45$ for 30g of white tea thinking we couldn’t find it anywhere else, huge mistake we found out the next day leaving with a bitter sweet taste. I wish we had given 20$ of tips instead of buying anything.
Absolutely loved this place! Our tour guide was such a friendly, chatty and welcoming person. He happily answered any extra questions about tea, spices, ... After a little bit of info you get to taste a cup of tea (ours was Oolong) with a piece of cake. After that, you tour around the fields and spice garden, you get to see the whole proces of tea making: from harvesting,to drying, to cutting, to brewing... In the tea shop you also get to taste all the different teas (white virgin tea, green tea, black tea, Ceylon tea, and all the variations).
We bought a lot of tea and gave a small tip (500srr per person). When we wrote in the guestbook, we saw that someone had written 'expensive' on it and I beg to differ. The tour, the info, the photo opportunities, the tasting of tea and spices, the sit-down with a cup of tea and slice of cake,... It's all for free. The tea that they sell have had a lot of people working on them before they are able to sell it, they also only sell on the plantation and online. I think it's fairly priced and exactly how much I would spend on tea back in Belgium and England in a specialty teashop.
Definitely worth a visit! (And a small tip/purchase to keep this going)
We bought a lot of tea and gave a small tip (500srr per person). When we wrote in the guestbook, we saw that someone had written 'expensive' on it and I beg to differ. The tour, the info, the photo opportunities, the tasting of tea and spices, the sit-down with a cup of tea and slice of cake,... It's all for free. The tea that they sell have had a lot of people working on them before they are able to sell it, they also only sell on the plantation and online. I think it's fairly priced and exactly how much I would spend on tea back in Belgium and England in a specialty teashop.
Definitely worth a visit! (And a small tip/purchase to keep this going)
Loved our tour around the tea plantation!! I highly recommend making your way out there from Ahangama, Galle etc. since it’s very interesting to not just see the tea plants but also other flowers and fruits that are grown there, along with the animals that live on the plantation. The tour is free and you’ll be able to taste a tea mid-tour. Prices for the tea in the shop range between 1.000 lkr to 7.500 for the virgin white tea. If you don’t want to buy the tea, you can also just leave a tip in the end
Interesting place to visit, entrance was free, guide was very knowledgeable but rushed us around the plantation very fast.
We were served free tea and cake but didn't have enough time to relax and enjoy it before the guide moved us on again to the factory.
The factory was again very rushed, which was a shame as the machinery used was 150 years old and it would have been nice to have enough time to take more photos.
The rushing around was aimed at getting us to the shop ASAP.
There was 40 different flavours of tea to taste for free but to buy any of the tea it was very expensive.
We bought the same tea in Galle much cheaper.
We were served free tea and cake but didn't have enough time to relax and enjoy it before the guide moved us on again to the factory.
The factory was again very rushed, which was a shame as the machinery used was 150 years old and it would have been nice to have enough time to take more photos.
The rushing around was aimed at getting us to the shop ASAP.
There was 40 different flavours of tea to taste for free but to buy any of the tea it was very expensive.
We bought the same tea in Galle much cheaper.