Kolukkumalai, India Imagine yourself flying in to Kochi, India. You are in a hot and humid coastal city. You get on a bus and travel for a few hours to a world wholly removed from what you just experienced. The city you are in can barely be called that. It is rather a way station for travelers who wish to see beautiful tea plantations. It is boisterous, full of energy and people bustling about. A rickshaw takes you to a distant village. Passing by you see tea plantations stretching all around you. You reach a point where the rickshaw can go no more, and get onto a jeep for the rest of the way. After about an hour of the most intensely bumpy road you have ever been on you arrive at the top of a magnificent mountain range covered with tea plants, and a few buildings here and there. You have arrived at Kolukkumalai. Tea Plantation The tea plants at Kolukkumalai Tea Estate were planted in the early 1900’s by the British. Over time the plantation passed into Indian ownership as it remains to this day. There are nearly 600 acres of plants. The plantation uses 100% organic methods. … Continue reading Visiting the Highest Organic Tea Plantation in the World