INDIA • PLANTATION • TEA
Says Alexander Chernykh, "Tea - how much of this word. It is possible to love and not. You can understand the variety or drink lifetime Packaged trash, not knowing that there are alternatives. Tea - it is a culture and ceremonies, business and hard work, and excess profits dealers paltry wage workers. Tea on the shelves and tables can be very different in appearance, quality, price. But there is one thing that unites all of these factors - growing tea is very beautiful.
India ranks second in the world in the production and export of tea. Production began in 1863, after the British East India Company brought to India tea bushes from China. "
1 The trees in the plantations - is the same tea bushes, specifically left for shade. Yes, you understood correctly, if the tea bush not handle - it grows here in a "tree".
2. Generally plantation - a private area on which to walk just is not recommended. But our guide easy to negotiate with local and we were allowed to walk.
3. Many compare the plantation with a maze, but I disagree with them. Almost everywhere tea planted in neat lines, so it is more convenient to go and collect the fresh leaves.
4. All this green splendor creates an indescribable atmosphere.
5. Among the many plantations have a particularly scenic. With its lake ...
... 6. "local" herons ...
7. ... and absolutely amazing hanging bridges.
8. The design of squeaks, but it looks quite reliably.
9. I have a suggestion that in the rainy season the water level is much higher.
10. The geometry of tea
11. Incidentally, the plantation - the only area I have ever seen in India, where the road is almost no hotels and cafes.
12. The cabins are only provided for the workers.
13. I do not know whether the practice plantation owners stay in their possessions, but I certainly would not have refused to build a small cottage and come from time to time. The area around is just amazing.
14. Mountains, even those without sharp ridges and ice caps, still remain far off.
15. Some people are fortunate to have on site at all rather big lake.
16. With his "tea peninsula."
17. Tea plantations of Munnar can be collected once every 15 days, ie 24 crops a year!
18. Gather it's such a beautiful woman.
19. In general, people work on the plantations of the neighboring state of Tamil Above since Local refused to engage in such work at the wages being offered.
20. On these plantations are not practicing hand-built to help women workers come here are cunning "scissors". At the tea bush lay flat stick serving level, and cut the leaves on it. When the pouch on the "scissors" is filled - it emptied into the bag hanging on the head or lying next to the bushes. In this way produce good quality tea is impossible, since in a bag together with the leaves may get part of twigs and other debris.
21. The weight of the bag at the end of the day can reach 25-30 kg, and the wages of these women - about three dollars a day.
22. Assembled tea delivered to the factory located near to process.
23. That in such multi-colored houses live pickers tea. Almost at the workplace.
24. Hundreds of hands transform the landscape into something amazing. The scale is simply amazing, everywhere, everywhere you look, the mountains are covered with a pattern of tea bushes!
Do you like tea, what do you prefer? Maybe there are special recipes? I would really appreciate if you share your favorite way to prepare this drink.
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