James Taylor Tea Estate From Kandy

Kandy٦ ساعات و٣٠ دقيقةالفخامة والمناسبات الخاصة

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Pick you up little early in the morning around 6.30 from your hotel in kandy we proceed the 1 hour journey to Taylor Hill. Site of the Loolkandura Estate Start your visit by learning about the estate’s You’ll be able to spend the next several hours visiting the many highlights of the plantation created by Mr. Taylor,, a statue erected in his honor, and a log cabin the planter once called his home. And also we take you on a tour to the Loolkandura Tea Factory, which still packages tea to this day, ro see the process of the fields. By the end of the day we proceed back to your hotel in kandy

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Transportation in a A/C Vehicle
English speaking guide for the entire tour
Mineral Water Bottle
الغداء
All Govt. Taxes and Surcharges

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Usage of guide beyond mentioned timings or anything beyond the itinerary
Any tours to cities not mentioned above
Any other services not mentioned above

برنامج الرحلة

1
James Taylor, the pioneer of tea industry in Ceylon was born to Michael & Margaret Taylor at Moss park, Monboddo Estate, Laurancekirk in Kincardineshiro, Scotland in 1835 (two years before Queen Victoria ascended the throne). Setting out from London on October 22, 1851 as a youth of 17 he arrived in Ceylon in 1852 and on arrival was sent to Loolcondera estate in Hewaheta a few miles distance from Kandy.
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Loolkandura Estate in the Kandy district is the very first patch of tea was planted as a test after the failure of coffee plantation in Sri Lanka. With the wild success of this plantation, then 21 year old planter James Taylor who was in charge of this plantation has been forever immortalized and has become a part of post colonization history of Sri Lanka.