I full day in and around Ooty was ahead of us.

We started with a visit to a nearby tea garden and processing facility in the morning. We enjoyed a guided tour around the tea garden, after which we were given an introduction to the processing steps … from the individual leaf to the final tea bag.

The majority of the tea produced here is black tea for the domestic market, most of it ending up tea-bagged. Very limited production of higher quality of white tea also takes place.