On Friday evening, before heading into Ella and to our hotel we stopped at a tea plantation. Sri Lanka is full of tea plantations and there were several in the mountains surrounding Ella but we specifically chose to visit Kinellan plantation due to Georgina having family ties there. Her grandfather was born on the plantation and lived there for a number of years as a child, and his parents had started the plantation. We paid for a ticket and got of inside the factory, where unfortunately we were not permitted to take photographs. I have never put much thought into how tea was made so it was very interesting to see the process from start to finish. The machines involved were all very old, most of them had dates of when they were installed and the majority of them dated back to the 6o's. I did wonder how it was done before the machines, like when Georgina's grandfather was a boy there. The factory was working and so it was full of local workers as we got shown round. It reminded me somewhat of photos from Tearfund or Fairtrade publications. We got a complimentary cup of tea and then headed back onto the road and onwards to our hotel for the night.
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| workers in the feilds |
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| walking through the plantation |
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