Sri Lanka’s plantation sector has been significantly shaped by its colonial past. Since the establishment of the first ...

The recently opened Pekoe Trail, which runs for more than 300km through tea plantations, villages and forests, tells the story of Sri Lanka's complex and chequered tea history. The sun is bright ...

In the remote hills behind the city of Kandy, in Sri Lanka's central highlands, the tea plantations stretch out over rolling hills like a vast emerald carpet. In estates all over the region ...

Ceylon Tea has been synonymous with the South Asian island for more than a century. The beverage has played a crucial role in the socio-economic evolution of Sri Lanka ever since it was introduced ...

In 2015 Sri Lanka was producing 340 million kg of tea which was hampered by the Glyphosate ban fiasco. As the industry was slowly recovering from this after laws were brought in place to allow for the ...

Up in the Sri Lankan highlands, a 19th-century transport network for tea is now conveying adventurers to remote communities and businesses. The 186-mile Pekoe ...

Sri Lanka was once a prominent coffee producer ... "This dish came to my mind while I was travelling around the Bogawantalawa ...

The team of editors at the New York-based news magazine has selected remarkable destinations and thrilling new experiences travelers need to know about, as The Pekoe Trail in Sri Lanka’s Central ...

For hikers, the path offers an intimate look at Sri Lanka’s diverse landscape and tea-entwined history: it unfurls from the mist-cloaked Hanthana mountains near Kandy, through tea plantations ...