This video shows the central highlands of Sri Lanka, where tea plantations cover steep mountain slopes in carefully arranged ...

The leaves that go into a cup of Ceylon tea play a surprisingly complex role in the history of Sri Lanka. It started with a single camellia sinesis plant brought from China in 1824 by the British, who ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The enchanting island of Sri Lanka has been known by many names. While under British rule for 133 years ...

From dawn in the tea gardens to dusk in the factory, the women of Giragama power one of Sri Lanka's biggest exports while ...

Sri Lanka is famous for tea, especially the tea grown in its central highlands. These green slopes, once known around the ...

Arumugam Manikavalli, awakened by ferocious rain and rumbling earth, fled her home for the safety of a nearby temple on the tea estate where she works. That same November evening, tea worker Kumaran ...

Sri Lanka is paying some foreign debts with tea, rather than cash. But an abrupt ban on chemical fertilizers has hurt crop yields and tea pickers are losing hours and wages as food prices double. Sri ...

In 1890, Sir Thomas Lipton arrived on the island of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, to purchase a plot of land that would become the first tea estate in his global tea empire. These days, in the Ambadandegama ...