The leisure and pleasure of tea Tea Trails and The Fortress You will think I write a lot about the scenery, but if you saw it you would not think I said too much. James Taylor
Tea Trails Ceylon’s tea plantations once worked as small individual entities, each with a factory and a bungalow for the estate manager. Today, smaller gardens have been consolidated into larger groups and so over the
When
you stand in Sri Lanka’s tea hills and allow your eyes
past few years, some of the bungalows have become redundant.
to slowly scan the gentle green slopes that are home
With the vision that guides all aspects of their work, Merrill, Dilhan
to millions of tea bushes and shade trees, it becomes clear that James
and Malik Fernando bought four of the abandoned British planters’
Taylor’s words ring true. We do not have the vocabulary to capture the
homes and turned them into stylish boutique villas to provide luxurious
full beauty of the island and can only wonder at the magnificence that
accommodation for visitors who wish to relax and rest amongst the
surrounds us. For those who wish to see for themselves, there are four
peace of the tea estates.
holiday homes set up in the smoothly undulating Dickoya district of the
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tea region where guests can learn just a little of what life has to offer on a
Visitors to the Tea Trails bungalows can take the conventional route
tea plantation while surrounded and enchanted by nature’s scenic beauty.
and travel the three hour journey by car from Colombo. Alternatively,
A Cup of Kindness
The Story of Dilmah Tea
