Day 01
James Taylors Tea Estate Tour from Kandy
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Pick you up little early in the morning around 6.30from your hotel in kandy
- We proceed the 1 hour journey to Taylor Hill,
- Site of the Loolkandura Estate Start your visit by learning about the estate’s
- You’ll be able to spend the next several hours visiting the many highlights of the plantation created by Mr. Taylor,
- James Taylor is the pioneer of Ceylon Tea. Arriving in Ceylon in 1852 as a 17-year-old, he was billeted at Loolecondera Estate in Galaha, a coffee plantation in the Kandy District. With the onset of the coffee rust disease, Taylor visited India in 1866 to learn about growing tea. Upon his return, Taylor planted a 21-acre plot of tea on Loolecondera in 1867 – Field No 7. It was fortuitous timing as the coffee plantations were all but decimated within a couple of years. Taylor’s initiative enabled a new industry to hastily replace an old one which had been brought to its knees. It breathed new life into the perilous situation that investors, owners, and planters had found themselves in.
- A statue erected in his honor, and a log cabin the planter once called his home.
- And also we take you a tour to the Loolkandura Tea Factory
- Sri Lanka is a wonderful country and is home to many places which are amazing and worth exploring so, this destination will never be disappointed. Enjoy a historical tea experience in the Loolkandura Estate where the very first patch of tea was planted in Sri Lanka. During this 6-hour private tour, visit the tea plantation,
- which still packages tea to this day, to see the process of the fields.
- By the end of the day we proceed back to your hotel in kandy
Highlight
- James Taylors Tea Estate
- LoolKadura Tea Factory
