Galle Fort and the southern beaches are on the itinerary for many visitors, but the surrounding area also has much to offer.

From one single camellia sinesis plant evolved a $1.5 billion export business — now, Sri Lanka fluctuates in status as the second to fourth leading tea producer globally.

In 1890, Sir Thomas Lipton arrived on the island of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, to purchase a plot of land that would become the first tea estate in his global tea empire.These days, in the ...

I’d studied Japan’s tea ceremony rituals, like the chanoyu, and so in Sri Lanka, I set out to explore a tea bungalow resort amid the vast tea fields that help make the country the world’s ...

Most of Sri Lanka's tea is grown by smaller farmers, like Rohan Tilak Gurusinghe, who owns two acres of land close to the village of Kadugunnawa. ... Tea pluckers, working in the fields, ...

Growers in Sri Lanka with small tea plantations are seeking certification with an international conservation organization in order to boost their brand and learn conservation techniques.

Sri Lanka is an Indian Ocean nation that's been famous for tea ever since the British ... NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from the tea fields of central Sri Lanka. This segment aired on August 11 ...

Sri Lanka is one of the world’s top exporters of tea. It’s picked by women whose ancestors came from southern India and who live and work on isolated plantations, often in poor conditions.

It's 8am and there is sleeting rain — miserable conditions to be outside, let alone work in Sri Lanka's tea fields. But for Sagunthla, a mother of two, it's just another day. She wraps a plastic ...

Sri Lanka is one of the world’s top exporters of tea. It’s picked by women whose ancestors came from southern India and who live and work on isolated plantations, often in poor conditions ...

Sri Lanka is one of the world’s top exporters of tea. It’s picked by women whose ancestors came from southern India and who live and work on isolated plantations, often in poor conditions ...