Dear wonderful wedding guest,
Welcome to Writing Talent, this is really Alice’s Portfolio/blog for her freelance writing business (the site is almost finished, feel free to have a browse), but we’ve borrowed a page or two for our wedding list :) If the option below doesn’t take your fancy view the full list here – View all honeymoon gift options
Tea picking experience £25
The amazing experience detailed below, is available at our hotel in the tea hills of Sri Lanka. We promise to bring you back some tea :)
Click the PayPal donate button below to contribute £25 to our tea picking adventure.
For the ultimate holiday souvenir, how about taking home a packet of tea that you picked yourself?
At Heritance Tea Factory we will deck you out in local attire – saree for the ladies, sarong for the gentlemen – and provide you with a basket in which to collect your leaves.
Then we will take you out to our organic tea fields and show you which leaves to pluck. You’ll find that it takes a bit of practice to make sure the leaves end up in your basket rather than on the floor!
Our professional tea pluckers will accompany you – you’ll be amazed at how efficiently and quickly they manage to fill their baskets by comparison. Luckily, we don’t expect you to produce the minimum 15kg a day that is their target!
Then we return to the Heritance Mini Tea Factory, where our chief tea taster, Nadaraj, will inspect your efforts. He will reject any leaves that are unsuitable, so you must pay attention when picking, or all your efforts will be in vain!
Nadaraj will take you on a tour of the Mini Tea Factory and explain the whole process, from the initial drying (withering) of the leaves, through rolling, fermenting and sifting, to produce the different types of tea.
Finally, you can taste the different teas, from flowery pekoe to green tea and teabag dust, to appreciate for yourself the differences in colour, flavour and strength.
The next day, a packet of your very own tea will be ready for you to take home. So every time you have a cuppa you will be reminded of your wonderful stay at Heritance Tea Factory.
