Adventures in the Middle East

Saturday, January 06, 2007

Many parts of the highlands of Sri Lanka are covered in tea plantations. All of the tea is picked by hand and processed in a method that is not much changed in the last 100 years. I visited on of the working plantations and stayed in a hotel that used to be a tea factory in the early 20th century. One of the souvenirs that I bought was a kilo brick of loose-leaf dried tea. The tea was wrapped in foil packs of 100grams, then all plastic-wrapped together an covered in brown craft paper. I couldn’t help but think as I packed for the airport that the whole thing looked pretty suspicious but my bag arrived apparently unsearched. By the way, if you are interested in a fix, I can hook you up as soon as I split it up into dime bags.

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