
Experiences
For the ultimate holiday souvenir, take home a packet of tea that you picked yourself.
At Heritance Tea Factory we will deck you out in local attire – sarees for the ladies, sarongs for the gentlemen – and provide you with a basket in which you’ll collect your leaves.
Then we will take you out to our organic tea fields and our professional tea pluckers will 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 the floor!
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, which is their target!
Then we return to the Heritance Mini Tea Factory, where our chief tea taster, Jayanthi, will inspect your efforts and take you on a tour of the Mini Tea Factory, explaining the whole process, from the initial drying (withering) of the leaves, through rolling, fermenting and sifting, to produce the different types of tea.