A Tea Factory

Labookellie is one of the 700 tea factories in Sri Lanka and are producers of the best tea on this island. It’s a multistore building and is just abt. 10 km from Nuwara Eliya in the Rambod sub-district.
Sri Lanka is the world’s biggest tea exporter, so it is a must to visit one tea factory, otherwise you can not say you have been in Sri Lanka.

1. One of many tea plantations in the highlands of Sri Lanka.
2. Detail of just fresh plucked tealeaf. Only the young tealeaves are plucked for the production of tea.
3. In the tea factory Labookellie you can have a guided tour.
4. The green, fresh plucked tealeaves are spread out on the nylon nets and stay there for abt. 18 hours. This is called withering.
5. Shortly the process of tea manufacturing:
   • plucking
   • withering
   • rolling
   • fermentation
   • drying
   • sorting
6. In front of the tea house.
7. When you come to the Labookellie tea factory you will be invited to their tea room where they serve (of course) delicious tea with some cake. After that you can buy in their shop behind the tea room some of their nicely packed tea.