Ella, Sri Lanka Tea Plantation Tour: Experience Tea-Picking and Tasting Ceylon Flavors

Immerse yourself in the beauty of Sri Lanka’s tea plantations and experience the art of tea-picking. Join us for a tour that includes tea tasting and a visit to a traditional kovil. Discover the flavors of Ceylon tea and enjoy breathtaking views from our Sky Café.

Duration: 1 hour
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Uva Halpewatte Tea Factory Tour - Renowned as one of Sri Lanka’s premier tea producers and recognized as one of the largest Ceylon tea manufacturers, our factory is nestled amidst verdant tea fields. Visitors can enjoy a variety of activities, including trekking through the lush tea gardens, picking tea leaves, learning about the tea production process, and ultimately savoring a freshly brewed cup of tea to conclude the experience.
What's Included
  • Gratuities included
Additional Information

Our operations start around 8.30 a.m. and go until 4.30 p.m. Between those times, you can come and take your tour. Also, one tour normally takes around 40 minutes to 1 hour to complete.

When taking the plantation tour, you must participate in the tea-picking session. Before the session, we performed the customary worship of Lord Ganesh at a small kovil close to the plantation.

You will also receive your basket to harvest tea, as well as a small mottu. If you decide to take part in the tea plucking activity, you could perhaps wear the customary tea plucker attire of a wraparound saree or sarong.

Relax amidst the breathtaking views of endless greenery, tea estates, and surrounding countryside at our Sky Café from a mountain top of 300m above ground/1300m above sea level.

Indulge in a unique tea-tasting experience and discover how and why Ceylon tea comes in different grades and flavors to suit diverse palettes worldwide.

Location
Uva Halpewatte Tea Factory Tour
Travelers need to come to Uva Halpewatte Tea factory, following the google map location and come to sky café which is in roof top to purchased the tickets to go for plantation tour.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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537ami
Oct 2, 2024
Lovely tea picking experience - Me and my partner chose the guided tour to the plantation fields. Our guide, Sallay, was a lovely and knowledgeable guide who took us picking tea in the fields. Great experience.
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Cruiser58947217428
Sep 27, 2024
Great tour and very informative. - We did the tea plucking tour. Sallay and Maria were excellent guides. Sallay gave us loads of information on the tea industry. We came away with a much better understanding of the industry and the very hard working plucker.
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386ainas
Sep 25, 2024
Nice visit - Very nice and recommendable experience! We really enjoyed the explanations and curiosities that Sallay told us, the tea plantation and the very good final tasting!
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683shanir
Sep 23, 2024
Sallay is the best - Dallas and Maria great team Good explanation in very good English!! Our friend told us to go and it was an amazing experience
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1301giorgiob
Sep 23, 2024
Great experience - Very nice tour. Sallay explained in detail the process and the selection of teas. Mary took us to collect the leaves. Recommended
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Yanoum565
Sep 23, 2024
Very nice tour! - Very nice tour where you get information about the process of making tea and the accompanying trees. After that you will pick your own tea for 20 min with a local and you will get 5 types of tea to taste. Takes a total of about 45 min. Good English-speaking Guide.
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Petra
Sep 22, 2024
Exciting tea picking experience - Many explanations from the guide to tea picking and tea production. Even picking tea was an interesting experience. Afterwards we were allowed to taste the different teas.
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193susani
Sep 19, 2024
Tea Picking Tour - Wow! What a great couple of hours with Sallay our Tea picking guide. He was so knowledgeable & friendly. Who knew tea picking is so difficult?! We slipped & slid on steep slopes while trying to pick the right leaves, throw them over our shoulders into the basket & keep the strap of the basket on our heads! Fabulous tea tasting & explanations from Sallay back in the factory. It was a brilliant trip & would recommend to all travellers to Ella. Definitely the highlight of my stay here.
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Z1432nsleea
Sep 19, 2024
Tea picking tour with Sallay. - We had a fantastic time on the tea picking tour with our host Sallay. What a lovely knowledgable man. He was informative and very friendly and approachable. We enjoyed a few laughs too! Would definitely recommend this.
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H2297gaelisag
Sep 22, 2024
Disorganization and lack of information - I bought the tickets through trip advisor and since no time appeared for the visit I wrote to confirm it. I was told it could be anytime between 8:30 and 16:30. We came at 12:30 and because the elections were closed, no one told me about this two weeks before when I wrote to them, something they already had to take into account. A guard told us that the workers would be at 1, so we waited. At 13:30 some workers started arriving and we were sent to a room where we have been waiting for more than 15 minutes. They took us to another room, took the tickets and had us wait another 15 minutes. They have left us waiting again and what was happening is that they were constantly waiting for people to arrive to join the visit and do them all at once. There's no point in not having a visiting schedule and then having an extra hour waiting for more people to join. At last we started the visit which has been 5 minutes of explanation and 20 minutes collecting leaves. Then we have moved on to a room again for a tasting The visit is not especially worth it, let alone waste 3 hours on it.
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