Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Curd Shop
B1
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Down Town Rotti Hut
B2
Dream Café
B1
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Garden View Restaurant
A2
Shopping
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T-Sips
B2
Newburgh Green Tea Factory
TEA FACTORY
Mon-Sat)
The tours at this green-tea factory are fairly rushed, but you can make interesting compar-
isons to those factories producing black tea. Newburgh is owned by Finlays, one of the
world's larger tea producers, and there is a notable difference in how the factory is run and
organised compared to the private factories. It's a half-hour walk from town.
Hiking
Ella is a great place for walking. Most accommodation can give you a hand-drawn map of
local paths. Kick off with a stroll to what is locally dubbed
Little Adam's Peak
. Go down
the Passara road until you get to the Ella Flower Garden Resort on your right, just past the
1km post. Follow the track to the left; Little Adam's Peak is the biggest hill on your right
and is clearly signposted. Take the second path that turns off to your right and follow it to
the top of the hill. Part of this path passes through a tea estate. The approximately 4.5km
round trip takes about 45 minutes each way. The final 20 minutes or so is uphill, but other-
wise it's an easy walk. Get an early start from your guesthouse - around 7am - and you'll
meet Tamil families heading off to work in the tea plantations along the way. From atop
Little Adam's Peak, waterfalls and a couple of tea factories shimmer from out of the mist
that's often welded persistently to the surrounding hills.
