Pedro Tea Estate tea factory in Nuwara Eliya

Description and is it worth a visit

At the Pedro Tea Estate, you can learn how to make the tea that is served to you every morning during your stay in Nuwara Eliya. This factory has been operating since 1885, and the production still uses machines produced in the 19th century. A visit to the factory by tourists includes a tour of the production with a detailed explanation of the technology of making tea from raw materials, as well as a walk through the adjacent tea plantations. The factory produces a special very light grade of tea, the production process of which takes place only at night in cool weather, so during the tour in action you will, unfortunately, see little here. But if you have not yet had time to visit tea factories in other places in Sri Lanka, be sure to visit this one.

Guided tours start approximately every 20 minutes or faster when recruiting a group, are conducted in English, take approximately 20 minutes. Photographing inside the factory (in production) is prohibited. After the tour, you can walk around the tea field yourself, taste local tea, and buy it. Prices for products here are very high compared to supermarkets and even branded stores in the city. To buy something here or not, the question is complicated, since there are two versions:

• Version from manufacturers. Sellers assure that only in their factory you can buy such fresh and not "diluted" with garbage tea, since everything that is sold in tea salons and supermarkets in Sri Lanka is tea brought from foreign factories, where straw and dust are added to raw materials from real factories. Therefore, their tea is twice as expensive.
• Tourist version. Tea sellers in factories simply speculate on the price to justify the work of the store and staff, as well as to promote their brand. And exactly the same quality tea can be bought in tea shops in cities and supermarkets at times cheaper.