Little known fact: In the 1860s, Sri Lanka was the world’s largest producer of coffee. One can still find a handful of growers trying to resurrect — or at least keep alive — this lost crop ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The hills were tropical, and fruit stands girdled the two-lane A-7 highway, ... of four bungalows operated in the Hatton area by Ceylon Tea Trails, Sri Lanka’s first Relais & Châteaux resort.

Camellia Hills Dunkeld Estate, Dickoya, Hatton 22000, Sri Lanka; Misty mornings in Sri Lanka’s Castlereagh Valley tea country region feel like something out of a romance novel.

The man in the khaki vest slurped noisily from his cup, descended briefly into scowling meditation, spat the contents into a sink and then unleashed a torrent of approving descriptors, lavishly ...

With a land area of 65,610 sq km (25,000 square miles), the country is responsible for almost 12 per cent of all exports of ...