Kandy – Nuwara Eliya

Roadside housing, Kandy.

A roadside fruit seller, who provided us with a delicious snack for the journey. All the way, people were selling produce, often in the pouring rain and cold, putting our western demands for comfort and warmth to shame.

We stopped for a tour of a small tea plantation, where we had a comprehensive tasting experience. The promises of a miracle cure for all known ailments in white tea (top left) convinced us to buy some. This tea is made from the buds of black tea, and not the leaves, making it relatively expensive.

Cindy and our driver, Mangola, outside the tea plantation.

View of the terrain, which is classified as a tropical rainforest climate.

A typical stall alongside the road.

A tea plantation in the highlands. Here we are at about 1800m altitude.

Tea plantations were everywhere, surrounded by lush, thick vegetation.

A tea picker braves the steep slope and inclement weather.

A view over a valley, famed for its many waterfalls and lakes.

View of the valley

Waterfall

Panorama of a tea plantation hillside.

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