Carving a path through cloud-swathed villages and centuries-old tea estates, the new long-distance Pekoe Trail gives hikers a chance to explore Sri Lanka’s quiet central highlands.

While Sri Lanka is generally associated with palm trees and endless white sandy beaches, further inland, among the surging mountainous landscape, the temperature cools and a curtain of mist blankets a ...

Leaves from the lush green tea estates covering the hills of central Sri Lanka end up in cups across the world. Tea is the island's biggest export, normally bringing in more than $1bn a year, but ...

An aerial drone photo taken on May 20, 2025 shows a view of tea estates in Bogawantalawa, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka earned 1.43 billion U.S. dollars from tea exports in 2024, with an increase of more ...

1.5 million tea estate workers and 1 million people in fishing trade, those two groups are really the marginalized groups and the vast majority of them are of Tamil background. The Government of Sri.

Residents in a tea estate village in Sri Lanka.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner) Many of the tea pluckers on Sri Lanka's vast estates also live on site in supplied homes known as line houses.

Having researched small holder tea lands in Sri Lanka, the situation is different. The down country tea growing populations in the smallholdings are relatively well-to-do, with lighting, TVs, ...

Just a short flight from Hyderabad, Ceylon Tea Trails in Sri Lanka offers an unforgettable escape into tea-scented hills, colonial charm, and world-class luxury.