Tea picking
India’s undisputed national drink is tea, or chai, grown on the Kerala and Tamil Nadu border. Rising to well over 2500m, the wooded mountains here offer optimal conditions for tea cultivation. The British cleared vast swathes of virgin teak forest in the late nineteenth century to make way for plantations, and these hillsides still support a giant patchwork of neatly cropped tea estates, interspersed with fragrant coffee and cardamom groves.
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