where the Scottish tea planter James Taylor established Sri Lanka’s first tea estate, via the market town of Deltota. Passing a Hindu temple painted in pastel yellows and blues, we swap Galaha ...

In Sri Lanka's central highlands, the weather may be capricious but what remains unchanged is the sprawling expanse of tea estates in every ... back on the tourism map after a disastrous spell ...

Leaves from the lush green tea estates covering the hills of central Sri Lanka end up in cups across the world. Tea is the island's biggest export, normally bringing in more than $1bn a year ...

“We demand that Malaiyaha Tamil people be accepted as free and equal Sri Lankan citizens,” said Shalini Manori, a 54-year-old ...

At estates certified by Rainforest Alliance, the largest ethical certification scheme in Sri Lanka's tea industry, we found workers without access to drinking water and toilets in the tea fields ...

It's 8am and there is sleeting rain — miserable conditions to be outside, let alone work in Sri Lanka's tea fields ... bold initiatives. Amba Estate, a 26-acre tea plantation near Ella, provides ...

The enchanting island of Sri Lanka has been known ... s varied and intense in the tea bushes that hem each slope. Along a curvy one-lane road through the tea estates, we pass row upon row of ...