Best Things to Do on a Tea Plantation Tour, Nuwara Eliya Nuwara Eliya tea plantation tour guide — visit working Ceylon tea estates and factories around 'Little England', with tasting sessions and factory tour tips.
Guided walks through the full tea-processing chain — plucking, withering, rolling, fermenting and drying — end with a tasting of the finished product.
Nuwara Eliya's altitude produces some of the most prized high-grown Ceylon teas, known for a lighter, more delicate flavour than lower-elevation grades.
Rolling green tea slopes, often shrouded in mist, make the estates themselves as much a visual draw as the factory process.
Estates surround Nuwara Eliya — see also the well-known Pedro Tea Estate and Labookellie Tea Factory.
A guided walk through a working tea factory's production line, finishing with a tasting session of different grades.
