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“Virgin White Tea” Estate Tour This is a low-country tea plantation within sniffing distance of the sea, owned by third-generation planter and author Herman Gunarathne. The estate is famed for its ‘virgin white tea’, which retails for over US$1,500/kg, and…

Also known as Handunugoda Tea Plantation with factory and museum…The Virgin White Tea Plantation in Galle, Sri Lanka offers guided tours (2US$ per person-free entrance for children below 12 years of age) around the plantation, tea-making factory, tea museum AND…

A visit to the Virgin White tea factory – Koggala 30 minutes from Galle Fort lies the Handunugoda Tea Estate, perhaps the closest tea plantation in the world to the sea. However, this is not the only thing that makes…

For Sri Lanka’s Virgin White Tea, the first touch of skin is your lip If a certain tea or coffee has a cult following across the world, there is bound to be a fascinating, bizarre, or stomach-churning story behind it.…